The Original Christmas Classics (Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer/Santa Claus Is Comin’ to Town/Frosty the Snowman/Frosty Returns/Mr. Magoo’s Christmas Carol/Little Drummer Boy/Cricket on the Hearth)
October 6, 2010 by Clare Swindlehurst
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Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer:This classic 1964 television special featuring Rudolph and his misfit buddies set the standard for stop-motion animation for an entire generation before Tim Burton darkl
[ Read this article → ]Mr. Magoo’s Christmas Carol
October 6, 2010 by Clare Swindlehurst
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This 1962 special marked the last hurrah of Mr. Magoo, who starred in 43 cartoon shorts, including two Oscar® winners, from the UPA Studio between 1949 and 1959. Magoo appears as Scrooge in a Broadwa
[ Read this article → ]A Christmas Carol
October 6, 2010 by Clare Swindlehurst
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Standing out in the crowded field of screen adaptations of the classic Dickens novel A Christmas Carol is hard to do, but this version pulls it off. When a transparent Jacob Marley walks through Ebene
[ Read this article → ]A Christmas Carol
October 6, 2010 by Clare Swindlehurst
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In the same year that he directed a handsome version of The Scarlet Pimpernel for television, Clive Donner also made this worthy 1984 small-screen production of the Dickens tale. George C. Scott can\’
[ Read this article → ]Disney’s A Christmas Carol (Two-Disc Blu-ray/DVD Combo)
October 6, 2010 by Clare Swindlehurst
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\”From Walt Disney Pictures comes the magical retelling of Charles Dickens\’ beloved tale — DISNEY\’S A CHRISTMAS CAROL, the high-flying, heartwarming a
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