THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – CLASSICS OF THE SCREEN - STAR IN THE NIGHT (1945)

 

On Christmas Eve, Nick Catapoli (J. Carrol Naish) owner of the Star Auto Court is installing a huge electric star to attract customers, but his first visitor of the night is a Hitchhiker (Donald Woods) who extols the virtues of Christmas.

Nick however is a cynic and doesn’t have a good word to say about it, his wife on the other hand is Rosa (Rosina Galli) who has a heart of gold so when José and Maria Santos (Anthony Caruso and Lynn Baggett) arrive at the motel looking for a room she makes sure the expectant mother has a place to lay her head.

As the moment of the birth grows near all the guests rally round Mr. Dilson (Irving Bacon), a traveller and his wife (Dick Elliott and Claire Du Brey) and Miss Roberts (Virginia Sale), and when the child has been born, three cowboys (Richard Erdman, John Miles and Cactus Mack) who had followed the star, arrive laden with gifts.

As an observer to proceeding Nick is largely oblivious but when his bemusement melts away, he learns that there is still goodness and Christmas Spirit in the world.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – SANTA CLAUS IS COMING TO TOWN (1995)

 

“Santa Claus Is Coming to Town” is a delightful, animated tale about a kindly poor toy maker Samuel Claus who sets setting off in search of a new life in the New World.

However, he gets lost in a peculiar forest which he cannot escape from no matter in which direction he travels.

Then one day he finds two Elf’s in the shack he has taken refuge in, and they introduce him to many others of their kind.

Then after rescuing a young Elf from a wild Pig a magical fairy comes to him and gives him a new home in the north and eternal life in which to make to make toys for the children of the world.

 

Characters voiced by Melissa Sindon, Jimmy Hibbert and David Holt,

Santa Clause is coming to Town is performed by Bing Chrosby

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – STAR IN THE NIGHT (1945)

 

On Christmas Eve, Nick Catapoli (J. Carrol Naish) owner of the Star Auto Court is installing a huge electric star to attract customers, but his first visitor of the night is a Hitchhiker (Donald Woods) who extols the virtues of Christmas.

Nick however is a cynic and doesn’t have a good word to say about it, his wife on the other hand is Rosa (Rosina Galli) who has a heart of gold so when José and Maria Santos (Anthony Caruso and Lynn Baggett) arrive at the motel looking for a room she makes sure the expectant mother has a place to lay her head.

As the moment of the birth grows near all the guests rally round Mr. Dilson (Irving Bacon), a traveller and his wife (Dick Elliott and Claire Du Brey) and Miss Roberts (Virginia Sale), and when the child has been born, three cowboys (Richard Erdman, John Miles and Cactus Mack) who had followed the star, arrive laden with gifts.

As an observer to proceeding Nick is largely oblivious but when his bemusement melts away, he learns that there is still goodness and Christmas Spirit in the world.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – THE MOO FAMILY HOLIDAY HOE-DOWN (1992)

 

“The Moo Family Holiday Hoe-Down” is an animated tale about the Moo Family who are performing at their live Christmas Hoe-down when Santa Cow's pilot accidentally crashes his sleigh into the cow's stadium, So, it’s up to the Moo family to find a way to save Christmas. 

Characters voiced by Jim Cummings, Pat Fraley, Tress MacNeille, Rob Paulsen, Brian Cummings and B.J. Ward

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – JOHN DOE, DYNAMITE (1941)

 

When the Bulletin is taken over, reporter Ann Mitchell (Barbara Stanwyck) is fired by managing editor Henry Connell (James Gleason) so as a parting shot, she prints a fake letter from unemployed “John Doe,” who threatens suicide on Christmas Eve in protest of social ills.

Because the story causes such a stir the paper is forced to rehire Ann and recruit a penniless drifter Long John Willoughby (Gary Cooper) to impersonate “Doe.”

After making a radio broadcast a social movement grows up behind him so a rival newspaper attempts to expose him and eventually the Bulletin publisher D.B. Norton (Edward Arnold) turns on John himself.

In his despondency Willoughby attempts suicide by jumping from the roof of the City Hall on Christmas Eve, as indicated in the original John Doe letter, by which time Ann has fallen in love with John and desperately tries to talk him out of jumping, but she faints sway.

Eventually members of the John Doe Club convince him not to kill himself, and John leaves, carrying a fainted Ann in his arms.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – NOËL ~ THE HAPPY CHRISTMAS ORNAMENT (1992)

 

“Noël ~ The Happy Christmas Ornament” is a delightful, animated tale narrated by Charlton Heston about Noël (Beau Berdahl Oliver), a cheerful Christmas ornament with an essential “happiness” instilled in him by the craftsman who first blew the glass, and that happiness rubs off on all the families he lives with, until the day he falls to the ground and has a new life.

 

Other characters voiced by Larissa Auble, Roscoe Lee Browne, John Crenshaw, Earl Hammond, Lee Meredith, Romeo Muller, Peter Newman, Corinne Orr, Millicent Sparks and Ed Wheeler

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – FRANK CAPRA'S 'MEET JOHN DOE' (1941)

 

When the Bulletin is taken over, reporter Ann Mitchell (Barbara Stanwyck) is fired by managing editor Henry Connell (James Gleason) so as a parting shot, she prints a fake letter from unemployed “John Doe,” who threatens suicide on Christmas Eve in protest of social ills.

Because the story causes such a stir the paper is forced to rehire Ann and recruit a penniless drifter Long John Willoughby (Gary Cooper) to impersonate “Doe.”

After making a radio broadcast a social movement grows up behind him so a rival newspaper attempts to expose him and eventually the Bulletin publisher D.B. Norton (Edward Arnold) turns on John himself.

In his despondency Willoughby attempts suicide by jumping from the roof of the City Hall on Christmas Eve, as indicated in the original John Doe letter, by which time Ann has fallen in love with John and desperately tries to talk him out of jumping, but she faints sway.

Eventually members of the John Doe Club convince him not to kill himself, and John leaves, carrying a fainted Ann in his arms.