Thursday, 11 November 2021

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – THE YEAR WITHOUT A SANTA CLAUS (1974)

 

The Year Without a Santa Claus is a classic children’s animation about a Santa Claus who is thoroughly disgruntled with Christmas and opts to take a year off from delivering presents.

However Mrs. Santa and elves Jangle Bells and Jingle Bells have other ideas when Jingle and Jangle decide to go out to find children to convince Santa that the Christmas spirit is still important to everybody else.

But they have to get past Heat Miser and Snow Miser, first, before they land in Southtown, USA, where it never snows for Christmas, where they find Ignatius Thistlewhite who is desperate for it to snow, but the Miser Brothers won't agree to let it snow in Southtown but Mrs. Santa knows their mom, Mother Nature and so the crisis is averted.

This endearing Rankin-Bass masterpiece is a wonderful example of stop motion animation with aided by the vocal talents of Shirley Booth (Mrs. Santa), Mickey Rooney (Santa Claus), Dick Shawn (Snow Miser), George S. Irving (Heat Miser), Bob McFadden (Jingle Bells), Bradley Bolke (Jangle Bells), Ron Marshall (Mr. Thistlewhite), Colin Duffy (Ignatius Thistlewhite), Christine Winter (Blue Christmas Girl) and Rhoda Mann (Mother Nature).

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