Christmas movies

[discopop]

Wot, 'No Great Escape' ? On a footy site too. Shame on you!

if we are talking films shown at Christmas the there is not much out there to beat this

 

[MillionMilesAway]

Im sure if you are in your mid to late 40's you will remember 'A Box of Delights'.It was shown in the run up to Christmas in 1984,and i found it utterly engrossing and brilliant.I use to run all the way home form school to ensure i didnt miss it!

Anyway......does anyone know where i can now watch this series? is it tooked away on one of the millions of platforms we are now bamboozled with?

Cheers

I was looking for that on DVD and it's difficult to find. I could find the Phoenix and the Carpet from the period.

I've got the Singing Ringing Tree to scare my nephew with - made in 1957 in East Germany

 

[uncle fester]

Haven't seen a mention of this one yet

 

[nmc]

Isn't Home Alone the only decent one?

Took my son and his friends to see one of the Nativity films at the cinema many years ago... god it was awful... even the kids hated it.

 

[denislawsbackheel]

Wot, 'No Great Escape' ? On a footy site too. Shame on you!

Only ever shown about twice in 20 years!

 

[Dr Jacoby]

Elf, Die Hard 1 and 2, Scrooged, Home Alone 1 & 2, A Christmas Carol (with Jim Carrey - it’s grown on me), The Muppets Christmas Carol, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Black Christmas, Edward Scissorhands and Jingle All the Way are all worth watching this time of year.

 

[lazerblue]

watched A Christmas Story today with the grandkids, brilliant, its a tradition in our house

 

[Ashleymcduff]

I was amazed when doing a quiz last night that there's 5 Home Alone movies....how fucking bad are his parents.

Disclaimer I've seen about 10 mins of the original and nothing else from any of them...at least as far as I know.

 

[Lupo]

Im sure if you are in your mid to late 40's you will remember 'A Box of Delights'.It was shown in the run up to Christmas in 1984,and i found it utterly engrossing and brilliant.I use to run all the way home form school to ensure i didnt miss it!

Anyway......does anyone know where i can now watch this series? is it tooked away on one of the millions of platforms we are now bamboozled with?

Cheers

I'm 49 and loved this at the time, as you say, watching it after school on the lead up to Christmas with the great Patrick Troughton as Cole Hawlings.

The series was largely filmed in Shropshire/Worcestershire, just down the road from me using the Severn Valley Railway for the train scenes and local countryside and some wealthy friends of ours lived in the mansion the Harkers lived in, Seakings, it was called Wassell Wood House and we used to go there often including Boxing Day each year. The house was just the same inside only things like TVs and video recorders moved out

Tatchester was actually Tewkesbury

I have it ob DVD by the way. A young Nick Berry was in it too playing Pirate Rat

 

[Double R]

Home Alone is my favourite, followed by the Jim Carrey version of A Christmas Carol. Elf is obviously brilliant too. I do laugh at people calling Die Hard a Christmas movie though.

Thought I was the only one who loved the Carrey version. Think its brilliant, suprisingly faithfull to the novel, apart from the chase sequence at the end. Carrey was excellent and a great soundtrack too and the Bocceli song.