409 Rankin & Bass's SANTA CLAUS IS COMIN' TO TOWN (1970)

The Cine-Files

Steve Morris & John Rocha

Tv & Film

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 25 December 2024

⏱️ 81 minutes

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The Cine-Files' Steve Morris and John Rocha continue their special three day deep dive into their favorite Rankin/Bass Christmas Specials with 1970's SANTA CLAUS IS COMIN' TO TOWN. Directed by Jules Bass and Arthur Rankin Jr. the special stars Fred Astaire S.D. Kluger/Narrator, Mickey Rooney as Kris Kringle/Santa Claus, Keenan Wynn as Winter Warlock, and Paul Frees as Burgermeister Meisterburger. Steve and John go scene by scene thru this wonderful special and explore why it endures and is a staple of Christmas for so many of us.

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0:00.0	Don't arrest those children.
0:02.0	It was my fault.
0:04.0	I gave them the toys.
0:06.0	You!
0:07.0	How dare you?
0:09.0	You are obviously a nonconformist and a rebel.
0:13.0	Me?
0:14.0	Rebel?
0:15.0	Arrest this man immediately.
0:18.0	The This man immediately.
0:32.4	Hello and welcome once again to the Cineophiles, where we are continuing our exploration of the holiday movies of Rankin and Bass.
0:33.3	My name is Steve Morris.
0:36.3	I'm a filmmaker and directing instructor in Los Angeles, California.
0:37.1	Hello, everyone.
0:41.7	My name is John Roker. I'm a writer, producer, and host and voiceover artist here in San Diego, California.
0:48.6	And happy holidays, Merry Christmas season. Greetings to everybody. I hope you're enjoying our previous episode from yesterday.
0:51.2	And I'm excited. dive into this episode with you, Steve.
0:54.7	I am, too. And it's so funny watching because what we get to see here, which normally we only see, you know, once a year when we do our deep drive on a director
0:59.3	is that we get to see the evolution of these filmmakers from their very, you know, their second
1:05.5	really big thing out, which is Rudolph, which you and I both have strong feelings about,
1:10.3	but also you can see that
1:11.4	it's, you know, they're just kind of getting started and we're going to move through some of their
	...

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