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With: (voices) Burl Ives, Billie Mae Richards, Paul Soles, Larry D. Mann, Stan Francis, Paul Kligman, Janet Orenstein, Alfie Scopp, Carl Banas, Corinne Conley, Peg Dixon
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Written by: Robert May, Romeo Muller
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Directed by: Kizo Nagashima, Larry Roemer
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MPAA Rating: Not Rated
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Running Time: 55
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Date: 12/06/1964
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Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (1964)
Bumbles Bounce
By Jeffrey M. Anderson
The all-time greatest stop-motion animated Christmas special, the one to lead them all. It was the first Rankin/Bass Productions holiday TV special, and it led to countless others. In a plot filled with laughs, romance, thrills, and even some tears, Rudolph joins an outcast elf (who wants to be a dentist), and a loudmouth, but kindhearted prospector to save Christmas and rescue the inhabitants of the Island of Misfit Toys. Burl Ives plays the narrating snowman and sings "A Holly Jolly Christmas" and "Silver and Gold" as well as the title song.
I grew up on this one, and now that it has been released in a 50th anniversary Blu-ray edition, I can only wish others the same delightful fate.
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