which old holiday movie do you always want to see on TV every Xmas season?

[CTyankee]

My husband has a standard list, from which he has just checked off the Alastair Sim movie "A Christmas Carol." He was thrilled that it was shown early this year!

I like the original "Miracle on 34th St." because I love the "feel" of it.

[mnhtnbb]

1. "White Christmas"

Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney, and Vera-Ellen.
It's just so much fun.

[kiva]

46. Yes!

A must for Christmas.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. None of 'em.

Sentimental schlock, all of them - bah, humbug. I do kind of like "Scrooged," though.

[lunamagica]

3. There are two tv Christmas movies I'd love to see again

One is "The Gathering" with Ed Asner. He plays a man who wants to make amends with his family before he dies. Sounds depressing, but it is not. It is warm, and I love the "feel of it" ( as you put it)

The other one is "The house without a Christmas tree" starring Jason Robards. It is about a girl and her bitter father and sweet grandmother.

I saw those movies when I was little in the 70's, but they don't get aired anymore

[amerikat]

36. The Gathering

You tube. you will have to watch in segments. But all segments seem to be available.

The House Without a Christmas Tree.....same arrangement but all the segments seem to be there.

Merry Christmas!

[lunamagica]

43. Thank you so much!

And Merry Christmas to you too!

[Brother Buzz]

4. I don't know how, but Christmas Story is officially an old holiday movie in my book

[UglyGreed]

6. +1 N/T

[yellowdogintexas]

29. yes it is and we always watch it

[Wolf Frankula]

5. A Christmas Story

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Glory to the memory of Jean Shepherd!

And "A Wish for Wings that Work" starring Opus the Penguin. It was broadcast once. I managed to cabbage a recording of it.

Wolf

[annabanana]

7. Amahl and the Night Visitors

Sadly, it has become hard to find...

edit note: I have tivo'd the Sims Christmas Carol. . .best version ever.

[CTyankee]

8. Oh, I like it too, even if I am not a purist on these matters.

Sims was a great Scrooge.

I do like George C. Scott's version as well. I'd like it better if he weren't such a goddamn brute to his wives...

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

9. This one above all

I've tried to catch it every Christmas season since I first saw it on TV as a little teenie weenie kid in the early 1950s. I also love the Natalie Wood original Miracle On 34th Street.

[yellowdogintexas]

30. the classic Christmas Carol although I am also quite partial to the George C Scott version

George C Scott was born to play Ebenezer Scrooge

however I recall being somewhat scared out of my wits watching the Alistair Sims version as a kid

[WinkyDink]

10. I like and watch only "A Charlie Brown Christmas."

[CTyankee]

11. Yup. Every year we see that!

[Art_from_Ark]

28. At one time, it was sponsored by Dolly Madison Bakery

The combination of Charlie Brown's Christmas and Dolly Madison commercials was really special for me in those days.

And then, there was the Grinch. I had the book, and was eagerly looking forward to the first showing of the animated cartoon, which was on December 18, 1966. But on the day it was to be broadcast, I got really sick and was not able to watch it. I was so disappointed that I had to wait another year before I could watch it

[WinkyDink]

38. Yes, no VOD in those days! :-)

[rurallib]

12. "Bells Of St. Mary's" is that a Christmas show?

"Miracle on 34th Street" the original is my #1.
Really like "Elf" also

And oddly - "The Lemon Drop Kid" (Silver Bells)

[kwassa]

13. "Holiday" with Cary Grant and Katherine Hepburn

directed by George Cukor. 1938.

Edward Everett Horton is also in it.

It is usually not in Christmas rotation, but is a very good movie.

[Rowdyboy]

14. Only one scene concerns Christmas but they show it every year anyway...."Auntie Mame!"

Life is a banquet and most poor suckers are starving to death!

[yellowdogintexas]

31. I own a copy of this and have read the book umpteen times

Mame Dennis is one of my literary heroines

[Rowdyboy]

33. Bought a copy of the book at our local library sale and just finished reading it for the first time

Absolutely loved it, especially the parts left out of the movie. My partner and I love quoting lines from the film, especially Gloria Upson's FASINATING story about Bunny and the ping pong game-

" the semi-finals - the very semi-finals, mind you - of the ping-pong tournament at the club and this ghastly thing happened. We were both playing way over our heads and the score was 29-28. And we had this really terrific volley and I stepped back to get this really terrific shot. And I stepped on the ping-pong ball! I just squashed it to bits. And then Bunny and I ran to the closet of the game room to get another ping-pong ball and the closet was locked! Imagine? We had to call the whole thing off. Well, it was ghastly. Well, it was just ghastly."

[avebury]

15. Mr Magoo's Christmas Carol

[irisblue]

24. I loved that one

[angstlessk]

16. It's a Wonderful Life

It is a 100% holiday movie..it was considered communistic at the time

[malthaussen]

17. Fitzwilly

Dick van Dyke as a criminal mastermind/con man/butler and his elaborate plot to rob Gimbel's on Christmas eve. Co-starring Barbara Feldon as the love interest (in her first movie role), and featuring an early score by John Williams that includes the minor hit "Make Me Rainbows."

Released in 1967 and not on anyone's list of greats, but I like it and watch it every Christmas.

-- Mal

[CTyankee]

21. sounds good. I'll look for it!

[Sweet Freedom]

18. A few

Love Actually
How the Grinch Stole Christmas (the cartoon)
Charlie Brown Christmas
Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa Claus

[Shrek]

19. "Die Hard"

Also Scrooged.

[kairos12]

23. "Come out to coast we'll get together..welcome to the party pal."

[a kennedy]

20. This isn't THAT old, but it is a goodie.... Trains, Planes, and Automobiles....

and it's for Thanksgiving.....I don't know of any other Thanksgiving movie out there.

[betsuni]

35. Another Thanksgiving movie is "Home for the Holidays."

Jodie Foster directs. It's very funny (full movie is up on YouTube).

[gort]

22. Reindeer Games

Ben Affleck was best Rudolph ever!

[irisblue]

25. Muppet Christmas Carol

The fence scene always cracks me up.

[Coventina]

26. Not a movie, but: The Year Without a Santa Claus

Also, I'd never seen it before last year, but definitely on my annual list from now on:

Santa Claus Conquers the Martians.

And that IS a feature film!!

[Bertha Venation]

27. Christmas Vacation

Yes, it is too old. :decrepit:

[yellowdogintexas]

32. Laurel and Hardy's version of "Babes in Toyland" from the early 1930s

it is a hoot. One of the Nashville TV stations must have owned a copy because they showed it often and somewhat erratically throughout the Christmas season. If we knew when it was coming on, we would plan gift wrapping, tree decorating or baking around it.

I found the DVD on Amazon and sent copies to my sisters who immediately knew it came from me even though the box said Amazon.

If you can locate it, do watch it.

[redwitch]

40. I watched it this morning as I do every Thanksgiving.

A Philly or NY station showed it every year on Thanksgiving when I was a kid so I have been watching it for decades.

[First Speaker]

34. Santa Claus Conquers the Martians

...sue me. I love it...

[amerikat]

37. Your husband is a

true connoisseur of Christmas films. The 1951 version of "A Christmas Carol" is the only one for me.
Alastair Sim rocks this film.

[redwitch]

39. Alistair Sims is the best Scrooge.

It is a must see for me too.

[HappyMe]

41. Christmas in Connecticut, Elf, A Christmas Story,

Charlie Brown Christmas, It's A Wonderful Life....
I like most Christmas movies.

[GOLGO 13]

42. We went unconventional this year...

- TORA, TORA, TORA
- BAD SANTA
- BEATLEJUICE

[TorchTheWitch]

44. How the Grinch Stole Christmas

And yes, I always sing along... "Da hoo doray! Da hoo doray! Welcome Christmas, Christmas Day!..."

A bar I used to work at for about 5 or 6 years used to have a Grinch watching party every year on whatever night it was on. The place was more packed on that night than on the night of our Christmas party. Prizes for whoever answered correctly obscure trivia questions about that show. Amazing how many people had that show totally memorized.

For the prizes management made up T-shirts with the picture of the Grinch's grumpy face with "Last Call" written underneath and of course the bar's logo. The bouncers wore the same shirts but in the traditional black color their real uniform shirts looked like, but had the picture of the really evil Grinch grumpy face on both the front and the back with the big "SECURITY" logo in white above the picture. Every year they took a group photo of the bouncers wearing their shirts and their similar bouncer nasty expressions on their faces.

Bartenders wore the girlie t-shirts that were plain on the front other than the bar logo with the grumpy Grinch face on the the back with the "Last Call" message. There was also the traditional group photo of them wearing their shirts but worn backward so the picture was on the front which was hysterical considering how the "attributes" of the bartenders distorted the Grinch's face... hilarious.

Man, I SO miss working there!

[Xipe Totec]

45. Macario - 1961

Poor, hungry peasant Macario longs for just one good meal on the Day of the Dead. After his wife cooks a turkey for him, he meets three apparitions, the Devil, God, and Death. Each asks him to share his turkey, but he refuses all except Death. In return, Death gives him a bottle of water which will heal any illness. Soon, Macario is more wealthy than the village doctor, which draws the attention of the feared Inquisition.

Oscar Nominated Best Foreign Language Film - Mexico
Nominated for Palme d'Or
Won CEC Award - Best Latin-American Film
Won Golden Gate Award - Best Actor Ignacio López Tarso

[KMOD]

47. We love all the classics, and

watch them if convenient.

But, and this is not a classic, we own National Lampoons Christmas Vacation, and the five of us (me, my husband, my children) watch it every year.

[lastlib]

48. "A Charlie Brown Christmas" is the only one I give a hoot about.