Product Details

• Actors: Jaclyn Smith, Art Carney, Paul Le Mat, Mason Adams, June Lockhart
• Directors: Jackie Cooper
• Writers: David Niven Jr., Jim Moloney, Rudy Dochtermann
• Producers: Carl Mazzocone, David Niven Jr., David R. Kappes, Jack Haley Jr.
• Format: Color, Widescreen, Original recording reissued, Digital Sound, NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Hallmark
• VHS Release Date: September 12, 2000
• Run Time: 92 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (81 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 1574927000
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #34,055 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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Item Name: The Night They Saved Christmas [Region 2]; Studio: (null)

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32 of 34 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A Holiday Classic..., September 13, 2003

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Sean Parauka (Orange, CT United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Night They Saved Christmas [VHS] (VHS Tape)

In 1984, another Christmas classic was released: "The Night They Saved Christmas." This movie of full love, giving and holiday fun. This movie has a great cast of chracters and is sure to get you into the holiday spirit and it will remind you how important Christmas really is.

As we start out, we meet Mr. Baldwin, a professional oil rigger who has been dynamiting ice fields near the north pole. This smells trouble for Santa and the elves. So Mr. Balwdin and his wife Claudia go home and there we meet his kids, David(oldest), Marianne (middle), and C.B. (youngest). David is basically a good kid that is sort of a suck-up to his parents. Marianne is an average yound girl with a heart of gold. Their youngest son C.B. is a trouble maker. He's always getting into fights with bullies who parade around saying, "There's NO Santa Claus." So C.B. is having trouble getting into the holiday spirit.

The next day Mr. Baldwin meets Santa's chief elf named Ed. He warns Mr. Balwdin that he has to stop the dynamiting because he will eventually blow up the North Pole. He breaks out in laughter and doesn't believe any of this. So Mr. Baldwin goes home and relays this whole story to his family and everyone laughs except C.B. because he's the only one that believes it.

The next day when Mr. Baldwin goes to work, Ed (Chief Elf) visits Claudia and her kids at their house and brings them to the north pole in a motorized Reindeer sleigh. There Claudia and the kids meet all the elves and SANTA! Then they go visit Santa's house where he has a talk with Claudia as to why they should stop the dynamiting. She is convinced that this tragedy will happen if they don't stop now. So she and the kids go home and she tries to get her husband to stop right away. Finally he stops the dynamiting.

This is movie is full of love, laughter and joy and is a Christmas classic. The movie has great visual effects and the setting of the North Pole is unbelievably stunning. This movie should be the next Christmas movie in your collection.

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Wish they would produce this on DVD for the US! It's in the UK on DVD!, July 28, 2006

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Robert Annetta (Moreno Valley, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Night They Saved Christmas [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This movie deserves 5 stars! I can't belive they haven't produced this on DVD in the US. It's been years since I heard it was on DVD in the UK (you can buy it from eBay, but you can't play it unless you have a region 2 player).

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of the Best!!, January 3, 2005

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dobielover - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Night They Saved Christmas [VHS] (VHS Tape)

I absolutely love this movie and watch it over and over again...I hope it makes it to the U.S. on DVD. I found out that if you go to the amazon uk page that Region 2 of DVD formats has had this title available on DVD since November 2003. Please release it to Region 1 on DVD!!