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A Christmas wish [videorecording (DVD)].

Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, c2003.

Alternate title:

Great Rupert [videorecording (DVD)]

[videorecording (DVD)].

1 videodisc (88 min.) : Dolby digital sd., col. & b&w ; 12 cm.

Based on a story by Ted Allen.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1950 under the title "The great Rupert."

Contains both the original 1950 black and white version and the 2003 color version.

Special features: audio commentary by Terry Moore.

Full frame edition.

"Digitally restored; first time in color! The Jimmy Durante Christmas classic"--Container.

In English (5.1 Dolby Surround, 5.1 DTS, mono. (b&w version).

Closed-captioned.

Music, Leith Stevens; songs, Fred Spielman, Buddy Kaye ; produced by George Pal ; directed by Irving Pichel ; screenplay by Laslo Vadnay.

Jimmy Durante and Terry Moore with Tom Drake, Frank Orth, Sara Haden, Queenie Smith and Rupert.

"A Christmas Wish is a heartwarming holiday classic about a family (led by Jimmy Durante) who is down on their luck at Christmas time. Shorty before Christmas, they move into an apartment where Rupert the Squirrel lives in the attic rafters. Just when it seems that the holiday will come and go without so much as a Christmas tree, Rupert acts as the family's guardian angel - not only saving Christmas, but changing their lives forever. The film is enlivened with the warmth of an unforgettable love story between Terry Moore (Mighty Joe Young) and Tom Drake (Meet Me in St. Louis). Rupert the squirrel (created using George Pal's Academy Award winning animation technique) will charm young and old alike. Jimmy Durante shines when he sings 'Jingle Bells' and other well-loved Christmas carols in the evocative voice that made him one of America's recording legends."--Container.

Christmas films.

Films for the hearing impaired.

Pichel, Irving, 1891-1954.

Vadnay, Laslo, 1904-1967.

Durante, Jimmy.

Moore, Terry, 1929-

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