"Christmas At The Drive-In" DVD!
Sure you may have to shovel the snow off the roof of your 57 Chevy and be forced to all huddle around the little lit coal portable heater. The speaker may get frostbitten to your window and you may be forced to drink murky snack bar coffee or gritty hot chocolate to survive the night. True, the window will get fogged up easier and suddenly those blankets in the back seat will be used to bundle up instead of the usual.. 'alternate activities'! But as you watch the credits roll and Santa and his trusty reindeer fly over top the big white screen flickering with the remnants of a b-movie, you have to admit, there's nothing quite like a Christmas at the Drive-In!
HO HO HO.. It's the holidays! Yes, it's that yule tide time of year again.. time to roast some chest nuts, chug some egg not, fight with untangling the Christmas lights, deal with the in-laws, and the hassles of shopping madness... and if it's not December, who cares?! Who says you only have to be merry and eat lots of candy and cookies during one month of the year? No one! You've heard of Christmas in July? Now experience CHRISTMAS ALL YEAR LONG with this DVD: Christmas At The Drive-In! A DVD filled to the gift bag rim with two movies, sing-a-longs / cartoons, and vintage Christmas shorts. Nearly six HOURS of holiday cheer to fill your stocking with! So quick, rip off the wrapping paper and see what's included:
"Santa Claus Conquers the Martians" -
Blast off for Mars... with Santa and a pair of Earth kids as Santa Brings Christmas Fun to Mars! In this 1964 cheesy 'B' flick to end all by director Nicholas Webster it's good vs. evil as Santa shows the rootin' tootin' aliens who's boss! Martians, upset that their children have become obsessed with TV shows from Earth which extoll the virtues of Santa Claus, start an expedition to Earth to kidnap the one and only Santa. While on Earth, they kidnap two lively children that lead the group of Martians to the North Pole and Santa. The Martians then take Santa and the two children back to Mars with them. Voldar, a particularly grumpy Martian, attempts to do away with the children and Santa before they get to Mars, but their leader Lomas stops him. When they arrive on Mars, Santa, with the help of the two Earth children and a rather simple-minded Martian lackey, overcomes the Martians by bringing fun, happiness and Christmas cheer to the children of Mars. Starring John Call and Pia Zadora, this film was also known as "Santa Claus Defeats the Aliens" when released. Without any special effects, bells, or whistles barring a pre-teen Pia Zadora's face greened out, to call this movie 'ultra-cheap' would be a compliment... and it's this b-movie tackyness that makes "Santa Claus Conquers the Martians" genre gold! Color. 81 minutes in length.
"Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer" - This 1944 cartoon telling of the classic "Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer" story by Robert May is a Christmas tradition. Produced by animation master Max Fleischer (Betty Boop, Popeye the Sailor Man, etc), this 8 minute full color cartoon features the original Rudolph, looking very old fashioned and almost identical to the illustrations of the original classic Rudolph children's story book. Narrated by Paul Wing and with the title by Johnny Marks, this is the original Rudolph.. way before the stop motion animation TV special done almost 20 years later. A favorite for all ages!
"A Christmas Carol" -
No, this is not the commonly seen Alastair Sim version, nor the version starring The Lockhart family.. this is actually a VERY EARLY and RARE version from 1910. The film is black and white, and silent with accompanying piano music. The retelling of this story by Charles Dickens runs approx. 17th minutes in length, and stars Charles Ogle as Scrooge along side a supporting cast including William Bechtel, Viola Dana, Carey Lee, Shirley Mason, Marc McDermott who are all uncredited. Being such an early film version of Dickens' classic Christmas tale, the film follows the story closely (without taking some of the liberties as do today's versions) and uses early cinema techniques to portray the appearances of the ghosts using some well-conceived double-exposure effects. This version is a true vintage Christmas classic for everyone young and old to enjoy!
"The Paul Winchell Christmas Show" -
This is a very special classic episode of "The Paul Winchell Show" starring Paul Winchell, Jerry Mahoney, and Knucklehead Smiff! It's Paul & Jerry's very special (and rare) Christmas episode! As the show opens, Paul is in his home baby sitting his neighbor's daughter Elizabeth. Trying to cheer Elizabeth up, Paul brings Jerry out to keep Elizabeth company... which soon leads to them breaking into song with the tune "Winter". (YES, even Jerry sings!) Then Elizabeth starts telling the story of "A Christmas Carol" which leads to thoughts (and tiny vinettes) of Christmas' past and future. Christmas past finds Paul as a little boy, showing his childhood friend one of his first puppets. His childhood clumsiness runs amuck though as he destroys his friend's Christmas decorations! Oh no! Fast forward to Christmas future which finds Paul and Jerry in a cheesy 50s campy sci-fi rocket ship skit a la Flash Gordon. The time is sometime in the future and the place is the moon, as travelers have advanced to having vacations on the moon! Paul and Jerry pack up for a vacation on the moon during Christmas, only to arrive and find out they don't have Christmas on the moon! In a hurry to leave, the moon men try to stop them... but Paul and Jerry eventually escape! In amidst all of this, don't miss the original vintage commercials included in the episode! You'll see two different classic Cheer commercials; one with Irene Manning and the second with Jean Sullivan.. both classic 50s moms! For a third hearty helping of product placement, settle in for a vintage Camay commercial with "news from Camay" about cold cream additive in Camay! Ahhh! The show wraps with a third segment with Paul and Jerry enjoying a winterland sleigh ride. After a sweet gift of classic Christmas bells from Paul to Jerry, the duo gives a heart warming rendition of Jingle Bells and delivers and sweetest of holiday wishes! Don't miss the final NBC slate featuring the original NBC logo & tone... ding ding ding!
"The Abbott & Costello Christmas Show" -
The Colgate Comedy Hour proudly presents Abbott & Costello in their special 1952 Christmas Special where for a change Bud is the brunt of all the hapless jokes and insane accidents instead of poor Lou. This one hour special features special guest stars / Vaudeville-esc performers Margaret Whiting, the Nicholas Brothers, Buster Shaver and Olive, and Tom and Jerry (No, not the cat and mouse.. but two people just as entertaining!) as well as the appearance of character actor and future star of Abbott & Costello's show, Sydney Field. This episode was presented by the Colgate Palmolive Peet Company and contains ALL of the original vintage commercials from the original airing of the show! The show opens with a musical number filled with dancing shoppers hoofin it to the song "Shopping". Then the dynamic duo Abbott & Costello enter, faced with the predicament of having no money for Christmas gifts. Then the scheming begins as the boys run through a series of 'ideas' on how to get Lou hit by a car, punched in the face, or maimed in some way all in order to claim insurance on the injury! Things go a rye when things get turned around on Abbott this time! (We told you he gets his in this episode!.. Which is a fact that Lou constantly mugs to the camera and gloats about during the live show!) Directly following this skit is a short intermission while product placement lives on with a classic Palmolive Soap commercial, for the soap with nature's green foam & natural chlorophyll! (Doesn't it just make you feel cleaner already? Mmmm.. green clean!) Next up we have an adorable performance by Tom & his pint sized woman Jerry as Tom enters a department store where a beautiful doll (about the size of a 'little person' if you get what we mean) is standing on a shelf perfectly posed. As he approaches, low and behold the little doll comes to life, and they dance the fandango with fancy steps and slight acrobatics! A classic and insanely cute routine in the same vein as Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers.. only pint sized! From here the viewer is lead into a toy shop where Santa hears the requsts of little children. Many antique toys litter the scene as we zoom in on some kids playing with a metal toy in the likeness of two trapeze artists... which with some super-imposing turns into the trapeze / acrobat act of Buster Shaver & Olive! Watch in amazement as this comedy team from the 50s still has the daring gymnastic tricks to make your jaw drop. Think this is all enough? Well no! After all these exciting and entertaining performances & skits, we're still only half way throught the special.. yes, only half way!
After a short break for a classic Colgate Ribbon Dental Cream commercial where you meet the Martin family.. they think Colgate Dental Cream is SWELL!! After all it does clean your breath, while it cleans your teeth! Then we find Abbott & Costello in their apartment again where Abbott requests that Costello listens to an instructional radio program that's airing and give Bud a nice scalp treatment. Bud doses off in the chair as Lou begins the treatment, but when he leaves the room momentarily, he's unaware to the fact that the radio announcer has switched topics and is now giving instructions on making noodle stuffing for a holiday turkey! Yes you can only imagine what goes into Bud's hair treatment now.. eggs, onions, celery, mushrooms.. all of which must be combined with the 'noodle' and stuffed INSIDE the turkey. By now if you're wondering is Costello REALLY stuffs Abbott's head into the butt end of a turkey, be rest assured... he DOES! Don't miss the special moments in this skit, like when a live baby chick waddles out of inside the turkey, when Costello used the vaudeville term 'this is a black out' to explain a lapse of time, and when Lou begins to repeatedly break up with laughter during the segment! After this skit, guess what time it is?.. That's right, commercial time! This time, snicker to the classic (and oh so corny) commercial for FAB laundery detergent featuring their "Whiter Without Bleaching" motto and various antique washing machine models! After some good product hocking, our next performer is Capitol Records recording star Margaret Whiting who performs two songs: "Gypsy In My Soul" and "Why Don't You Believe Me?" After this soothing lull, we're launched back into hysterical comedy when we find Abbott & Costello hard at work with their seasonal jobs of delivering furniture & packages from a local department store. The duo brings a number of large appliances into the home of a quarreling couple (including Sydney Field) only to be told to bring it in, bring it out, bring it in, bring it out so many times they rhythmically begin to haul all the furniture back and forth based on the hysterical arguing between the dysfunctional couple. A high point of the skit occurs when Sydney Field demands on no Christmas presents and Lou looks at him and shouts, "What are you, Scrooge?! I wanna give this guy the Dickens!" After much fighting and many trips back and forth for Abbott & Costello Lou finally mentions a divorce which the couple happily accept. Abbott then announces he's divorcing Costello as well and walks off. Lou finishes out the scene by saying goodbye to Abbott and the show, goodbye to the boom operator, stage crew, director. (this was Abbott & Costello's LAST night as hosts of the Colgate Comedy Hour) and then launches into goodbyes to the props, the set, and the FIREPLACE.. which shelters a little surprise for Costello itself. Did you ever know a fireplace could shake hands? You have to see this silly-ness to believe it! Guess what? Commercial time again! This final commercial is for Palmolive Brushless Shaving Cream featuring a black and white, animated, SINGING barber's trio! The shows performances are rounded out by the amazing vaudeville act the Nicholas Brothers, two black dancers and singers.. think Mr. Bojangles and an identical twin brother! Their soft shoe talent is unmatchable! As the show draws near an end, Lou Costello comes out alone and addresses the band leader Hal Goodman asking him to play "White Christmas". Then Lou gets the bright idea of wanting to lead the orchestra himself! Hal Goodman and Lou soon break into a fight.. which turns physical.. and Lou (amazingly enough) wins. As Lou begins to lead the band, he looks at the cue card man off stage and playfully says "Don't get the card's wrong, I'll hear from Irving.." referring to the originator of the song Irving Berlin. As the song continues, Lou begins to croon the tune to the audience. Don't miss this RARE performance of Lou SINGING! But far be it for Abbott & Costello to leave things on a serious note, as Lou soon launches into a Spike Jones type musical comedy routine with the band, including the pantsing of Costello and having a chandeleir shot down on top of him! OH MY! At the close of the show, Abbott & Costello both come out on stage to bid farewell and wish health and recovery to an injured / ailing Red Skelton. As they shuffle off stage, an announcement is made about the debut of their latest film "Abbott & Costello Meet Captain Kid" starring Charles Laughton which 'premiered' that weekend in Chicago where they were to appear live!
It is important for the Abbott & Costello fan to note that this performance was towards the end of their work when Abbot & Costello had indeed began to fight with each other in real life. Quite often throughout this special that animosity comes out in devilishness and child's play. Lou especially gloats everytime Bud 'gets it' in the show, and some very cheeky comments and actions (such as a slap to Bud's face that seemed unplanned) occur! At the end of the show, both boys are literally gnawing at the scenery as they try to compete for air time to get their words out, resulting in Costello pushing into Abbott, to which he pushed back and replied "Don't push me!" While they were one of the greatest comedy teams of all times and we're sure they honestly cared for one another, this show was during the time of their fights (due to personal demons) and tensions were high. An unusual sight for Abbott & Costello fans!
"Jingle Bells Sing-A-Long" -
Yes, that's right, a sing-a-long! Remember those? This full color animated cartoon is a 'screen song' by Famous Studios Productions. As it opens the cutest little bunny you ever did see tears a day off the calendar to reveal it's December 21st! All the woodland creatures prepare for the first day of winter as bears, foxes, & skunks put on their winter 'fur' coats, elephants and cats have snowball fights, bunnies, alligators, flamingos, catepillars fish & penguins ice skate on the forzen pond and all the animals of the forest go bob sledding and skiing! Meanwhile, mama hen walks by with all her eggs in a incubating perambulator as each egg hatches.. all except one which, as you may have guessed turns into the bouncing ball! Mama hen looks at the audience and says "Sing along with my bouncing egg fruit.." (Don't ask us, we didn't write it!) The sing-a-long begins and goes through the FULL song of Jingle Bells, complete with three verses and stanzas not normally sang in modern times. As you follow the bouncing ball through the entire full song of Jingle Bells, animations are displayed across the screen to be pleasing to the eyes, including dancing snowmen and a sleigh running through the snow which are almost stop-motion animation-esc! A fun activity and Christmas delight for viewers young and old. Come on, sing along! You know you want too!
"Christmas Toyshop" -
This rare CASTLE FILM is a live action black and white short film (2 reeler) with some integrated animation. At the open of the film a 40s / 50s type family is sitting at home listening to their vintage radio at Christmas time. All of a sudden the Mr. Brady type dad tells the kids it's time for bed, to which the kids reply with a sugary shrill "Will Santa bring us a tree?!" The parents chuckle in typical 50s sitcom cheeseball form and send the tykes to say their prayers and crawal into their old fashioned beds. (Think this is too funny to not be a parody? You're wrong.. this was for real.. and it only gets cornier!) Once the kids are off to bed, the dad jumps up excited to get ready to play Santa for them the next morning and proceeds to bring the tree in with some bumbling and loud crashes. Meanwhile, all nestled in their beds, the kids receive a visit from the sand man, which is shown as a transparant old hobo looking man who snuck through their window (think Pappy Yokum from Lil Abner!). Shortly there after, the REAL Santa Claus falls down the chimney (the clumsy little jolly man!) and awakens the children who run out to see Santa there in their living room! Santa decides to tell them the story of his toyshop in the North Pole and how all the toys are made. As he launches into the story, the 'vision of his tale' is portrayed in tinted animation. The story unfolds as the toymaker leaves his shop and the toys come to life and begin singing in the 'Toyland Review'. As Wooden Soldiers sing, all the other toys begin dancing and singing, including Lil Bo Peep and Lil Miss Muffet! But then tragedy strikes... The evil spider kidnaps Miss Muffet and the toys much come to her rescue. Cue the Wooden Soldiers to the defense and the toys save the day! Fast forward back to real life, and the kids are fast asleep in Santa's arms. The next morning, dad awakens the children in his cheap Santa suit... but of course they don't believe him. They met the REAL Santa! The parents stare in wonder as the kids tell of their story with Santa and then beging to play with their new toys as we fade out on the little girl singing rock-a-bye to her new baby doll. The only think more vintage and cheesy about this period short is the sickeningly sweet 50s children. Oh YOU! Don't miss this adorable (and cornball) vingnette.
"The Night Before Christmas" -
Another classic black and white CASTLE film, but this one lovingly retells the famous tale of "The Night Before Christmas", recounting the poem verse by verse. The film opens with a vintage era family in an antique home. Not a creature was stirring, not even the (stuffed puppet) mouse! As cartoon sugar plums dance in the thought bubble of the children's dream, ma and pa settle in for a night's rest wearing their old fashioned night gowns and doily caps. As you peak out the window, the outside winter wonderland appears as a playful cartoon and Santa in his sleigh is soon 'animated' into the picture. The toon Santa slides down the chimney and lands inside as a REAL live person! (Didn't know that between indoors and outdoors there lies and alternate cartoon dimension, did you?!?) The real live Santa goes about his business, occassionally laughing with joy while he holds his belly.. which is obviously a very square pillow stuck under his red coat. Classic toys are displayed along the fireplace and in the stocks as Santa takes a few puffs off his tobacco pipe (Even Santa smokes! Tsk tsk!). Finally Santa returns to his sleigh on the roof top which is obviously a cardboard cut out being rocked off camera, and flies (or is pulled across screen) out of sight as he yells "Happy Christmas to All and to All A Good Night!"
"The First Christmas" -
This classic CASTLE black and white silent film tells the story of the very first Christmas... but not in the usual terms! This is not just any actor playing Joseph, Mary, & baby Jesus.. oh no!!!! This is a cast of puppets! YES! Puppets! And cheap Mexico imported looking marionettes at that! The story of Mary & Joseph begins as God sends the angel Gabriel down to Nazareth to visit Mary. Mary is told she will have a son and name him Jesus. Joseph & Mary travel to Bethlehem to have thier baby but are turned away by every inn and forced to bear their child in a manger. Meanwhile, God tells the wisemen that a leader will be born in a manger in Bethlehem and to worship him.. to which they respond by bringing the new king gifts of worship. This short is a beautiful retelling of the story, despite the cheesy puppets and cheap 'wire' halos attached to the saint's heads, etc. Any child will love this short, and learn the true meaning of Christmas in the meantime.. and of course adults will enjoy the nostalgia and chuckle at this quaint retelling with all it's trappings.
"The Chrismas Visitor" -
Yes, yet another classic CASTLE film, this time being a color animated short with a weird vintage pop art look to it. The story line is based on the same "Night Before Christmas" poem used in the earlier short, but this is a different rendition of the telling. In this odd almost stop motion animation, Santa is ALL red (even red skin) except for his beard and the whole short has a drive-in intermission reel type look to it. As Santa delivers the toys, they soon unwrap themselves and come alive. Meanwhile, the bad villain toy (who kind of resembles a Snidley Whiplash type) comes to life and kidnaps Lil Bo Peep.. so now we have the story of "The Night Before Christmas" meeting "Babes in Toyland". The villain ties Bo Peep to the toy railroad tracks and the hero (the good sailor ty) must come to her rescue. All the toys fight to combat the villain, using every toy weapon possible from trains to missiles, choppers, and toy soliders! Call out the battalion! Finally the sailor saves Bo Peep. Seeing all this, Santa scolds the bad toy (BAD VILLAIN! BAD!) and puts all the toys up as he dresses the tree and dissapears up the chimney with a "Happy Christmas to All and to All a Good Night!"
"Santa Claus' Punch and Judy"-
In this final CASTLE film, we enjoy a black and white live action short. We come to view a small room where Santa is visiting the children. He gives one girl on his knee a baby doll and listens to the wishes of all the others. One kid wants a Punch and Judy play set.. so how does Santa respond? By summoning Punch and Judy of course! Suddenly a puppet theatre appears and so do Punch, Judy, & all their cast of puppet characters. The children watch with glee as Punch and Judy launch into a routine and begin slapping, beating & abusing one another to the children's laughter. AHHHHH yes, nothing says classic Christmas more than good old fashioned violence for the kids.. puppet violence mind you.. but still a good moral lesson! As the children giggle along, soon the rest of the characters get into it as a cat, monkey, skunk, and alligator puppet all take a swing at Punch.. until finally the show ends with the gator eating Punch! Mmmm.. oak wood puppetry! Yum! With the show at a close, Santa makes the Punch & Judy theatre disappear.. and Santa does the same as the short comes to an end.
"Santa Claus" -
Mr. & Mrs. F.E. Kleinschmidt present this 1925 black and white silent film about, who else, but the man w/ the bag-o-toys.. SANTA CLAUS! This rare film includes footage actually filmed in Alaska AKA The North Pole and shows a very old fashioned looking live action Santa in a vintage Santa Claus suit. The live footage from Alaska is cleverly written into the film to depict what Santa does the other 364 days of the year. This film was lost for years but recently restored with music and the original title cards. As the film begins, two children are show waiting for Santa Claus. Santa appears and they hurridly ask him what he does every day of the year OTHER than Christmas?!? So Santa tells them of his home at the North Pole and begins to show them pictures.. which turns into the story scenes we see. Santa tells of living by the polar caps, near the rim of the sea, which is guarded by 'goblins'. These 'goblins' turn out to be footage of real live seals & polar bears playing in the Alaska snow. Then Santa tells of (and shows) his sleigh with real live reindeer.. yes, that's right.. LIVE reindeer on camera! From here we visit his workshop with the elves hard at work making vintage toys like metal ferris wheels and merry-go-rounds. Of course Santa only brings these toys to the best of little boys and girls, so Santa tells of how he checks his naughty & nice list by looking in on kids with a giant telescope atop a snow covered hill. This leads into a little vignette of Santa watching some poor kids in a bowery and frowning on a bully who is teasing a blind man, and putting the name of the boy who helps the blind man on the 'nice' list.
Next on the list of North Pole places to visit is Santa's automobile shop (complete with a vintage gas pump and hobby horse inside). Here Santa polishes his sleigh and checks in on his reindeer as he tells the tale of his 'pet' Blitzen who he found as a fawn and took in.. and yes, you even see baby Blitzen.. a real life baby reindeer. Too adorable! Then Santa is shown visiting his neighbors the Eskimos in their igloos as he begins to talk of his other friends, like the Easter Bunny who.. (are you ready for this?) is shown as a REAL LIVE rabbit! Yes, they show Santa sitting with a HUGE white winter rabbit on his knee and refer to him as 'the Easter Bunny'! But of course, Santa's BEST friend is Jack Frost, which is basically depicted as an Eskimo with a want and big bunny slippers! (Ok so there's some cheesy parts but it's from 1925!) Finally it's Christmas Eve and Santa is seen loading up his sleigh and hooking up his reindeer.. who don't exactly cooperate with him as seen in the film. The animals were not getting paid as actors, why should they behave on cue!? Finally Santa gets them all together and goes off to deliver the toys all over the world.. to the Eskimos first and then to Nome, AK and then on to the rest of the world. At the end of the long night, Santa returns to the North Pole where he begins to dose off at his workshop desk.. as he does so, 3 or 4 beautiful dancing fairies appear courtesy of a transparency camera trick and dance in a circle on his desk in front of his beard as he is lulled to sleep.. and this quaint family short entertaining to all comes to an end.
"Santa Claus" -
Same title as the short above, but a VERY different movie. This 1959 full length feature film is presented by K. Gordon Murray and stars a mostly Spanish cast (while the dialogue is in English). This cheesy b-movie classic was filmed at Churubusco Azteca Studios in Mexio and directed by Rene Cardona. At Christmas time it's good vs. evil as Pitch, a demon, is sent from Hades to prevent Santa Claus from delivering presents to the good little children of Mexico City. He enlists the help of three child brothers who he lures with his evil temptation of toys and getting their hearts desires, only doing it the wrong way! Santa Claus, high above the North Pole in his cloud-borne castle equipped with more surveillance devices than the Impossible Mission Force, prepares to deliver presents on Christmas night. Santa is especially interested in helping Lupita, the daughter of a poor family who wants nothing more than a doll; and a young boy whose parents are so wealthy they never spend any time with him (Santa fixes this by feeding them Pan-Galactic Gargle Blasters). However, the Devil will have none of this as his minion Pitch continually tries to hinder Santa and destroy Christmas.
This film has some very memorable moments in it, such as the opening sequence where Santa is in his workshop with his 'helpers' who are all children from different countries including Spain, Africa, China, England, France, the US, Italy, Mexico, & more. They all sing while they work and the whole toyland has a very "It's a Small World" type feel. This 'dance number' is only comparable to the first scene down in hell where there are three or four devil's dancing a jig down in the bowls of the netherworld. (Why would Satanic devils be dancing and singing? Hmm.. only in a Mexican b-movie!) After his little ho down, Pitch is threatened by Satan that if he doesn't fulfill his mission this time, he will be forced to eat chocolate ice cream! OH NO.. a fate worse than death! Later on in the film we dive into a particularily disturbing scene for a children's film where the little poor girl Lupita has a dream, thanks to Pitch, about the baby doll she wants but can't have. Only in the dream, there are many dolls, they're all life size, they all come to life to sing and dance, and they all try to pressure her to steal a baby doll!! "If you don't steal one, you'll never have one!!" After a dream like that, who'd want one?! All this while, Santa is at the North Pole using his high tech equipment, including the periscope that looks like a giant eye, satellite with a giant ear, and the machine with talking giant red lips to keep an eye on things until he can no longer resist. He must go to earth to deliver the gifts, stop Pitch, and save Christmas! So, he loads up his sleigh after visiting his friends the master black smith and Merlin the magician for some special tools, winds up his FAKE white reendeir, and heads off to save the holiday! After many narrow escapes and finding himself 'up a tree', with the help of Merlin, Pitch is finally defeated and Christmas is saved.. in all it's cheesy b-movie glory! Hoorah!
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