Favorite Holiday Videos???

[arrg-isle]

For me, nothing so far can match the old-time, zany chaos (and arch scripting) of Christmas in Connecticut. {And of course I mean the original, from 1944, with Barb Stanwyck, not that wretched 90's remake with Kristofferson & Cannon.}
The dialogue from supporting role actors like Sydney Greenstreet, S. Z. Sakall & Una O'Connor by themselves is worth the time & attention, and besides, if you never see this war-time pearl, you'll never get wise to "the ol' magoo"!

[piperdown]

Christmas on Walton's Mountain

The Gathering with Ed Asner (requires tissue)...my favourite

National Lampoons Christmas Vacation

[Nighthawk]

March of the Wooden Soldiers with Laurel and Hardy


For the record, I can still hear the ring of the bell!

Cheers

Jamie

Oh!! How could I have forgotten about that one?!?!

[JRB]

I'm with Panache in liking the Patrick Stewart version of "A Christmas Carol". It's a great modern version that adhere's to the original story very well. Patrick Stewart makes a great Scrooge as well. I like the 1951 Alastair Sims version too, but modern filmaking technology (and the fact that I'm a Star Trek TNG fan) put the newer version higher on my list.

Also on my list are several previously mentioned films and a couple not mentioned...

"National Lampoons Christmas Vacation"

"A Christmas Story"

"It's a Wonderful Life"

"Scrooged"

"A Charlie Brown Christmas"

"Elf"

"Home Alone"

[IRISH]

March of the Wooden Soldiers

panache drops the a-bomb of christmas movies... my brothers and i would wait for weeks for march of the wooden soldiers to be shown on wpix ch 11 nyc on thanksgiving morning and christmas eve. now i've got my seven year old hooked on it.

10. how the grinch stole christmas
9. rudolph the red-nosed reindeer (rankin & bass)
8. star wars holiday special (1978 featuring harvey korman, art carney and jefferson starship, yikes!)
7. the norelco electric shaver commercial with santa riding the razor across the snowy fields
6. the yule log on wpix ch 11 nyc (yup, just the yule log burning for 12 hours)
5. santa claus conquers the martians
4. run dmc video for christmas in hollis
3. a charlie brown christmas
2. bowie and bing singing the little drummer boy on bing's 1977 christmas special
1. it's a wonderful life

[arrg-isle]

7. the norelco electric shaver commercial with santa riding the razor across the snowy fields

In case no one else has tipped you off, most of those great old Norelco commercials are viewable on YouTube, just key search norelco.

[Panache]

panache drops the a-bomb of christmas movies... my brothers and i would wait for weeks for march of the wooden soldiers to be shown on wpix ch 11 nyc on thanksgiving morning and christmas eve. now i've got my seven year old hooked on it.[/I]

We just put up our display of nutcrackers and wooden soldiers (Splash_4 knows them ) yesterday. To my great delight my son asked to watch "March of the Wooden Soldiers" this evening. At this moment, as we are watching, the Bogeymen have just invaded and the only hope in repelling them lies in the toy factory warehouse!

Cheers

Jamie