Holiday Movie Hall of Fame

Here in a few days, I will review another childhood favorite. I'm going to watch a HOF nomination tomorrow night.

They weren't nominated , but I watched Rudolph and Christmas Vacation already this year.

I was thinking of Rudolph as well

Rudolph was on my shortlist. So was Frosty.

The story of a young Laplander orphan boy named Nikolas and how he became what we know as Santa Claus or Father Christmas

After the death of his parents and baby sister, Nikolas goes to live with each family in the village for one year. As Christmas, comes around, he makes small animals and objects from wood and gives it to the previous families he lives. One year, the harvest is not bountiful nor are the lakes providing fish for food. Nikolas is sent to live with an old carpenter who treats him as a slave. One night, as Nikolas is found making gifts from discarded pieces of wood, his master scolds him but then decides he will give Nikolas the night of Christmas eve off to deliver the handmade gifts. Over time, the carpenter's heart softens and begins to help. After many years, the carpenter's sons finally come to take him to live better. Nikolas inherits the old carpenter's land and workshop. Nikolas becomes close friends with his best friend's daughter, Aada. Nikolas begins to deliver gifts to children who live in surrounding villages and wears a red suit to hide his identity. After many, many years, Aada convinces Nikolas, that in his old age, he needs to give up delivering gifts on Christmas eve. That Christmas eve, Aada is unable to find Nikolas and as her, her husband and son stand at the lake, where so many years ago, Nikolas lost his family, he comes by flying through the night, on his sleigh and with his reindeer.

I thought it was a cute telling of how Father Christmas came to be. It was imaginative and the acting was decent. However, I could only find the English dubbed version and not the original Finnish dialog with English subtitles.

If anyone is interested in viewing, its IMDB tv and Tubi tv for free.

Lets not forget

How the Grinch Saved Christmas

Thanks to a young mouse named Albert, Santa won't be visiting Junctionville, New York this Christmas. Albert and his friends wrote a letter and posted it in the local paper saying Santa was a fraud and so where his reindeer. The local clockmaker decides to make a large clock, that when it strikes Midnight, on Christmas Eve, a choir of children's voices sings to Santa. Albert fumbles things again when he decides to see how it works. His father talks to the clockmaker and confesses what his son did. But with the help of a song, Albert decides that perhaps he was wrong and tries to fix the clock before Santa flies by.

Cute Rankin-Bass holiday special, again one that I grew up with. The story was somewhat based on the poem by the same name. If you grew up in the 1970's, this is one I'm sure your family watched, just as mine did.

I thought it was called How the Grinch Stole Christmas. Is there a sequel that I don't know about?