Christmas Classics Collection

Collection of four classic Christmas films. In 'It's a Wonderful Life' (1946) George Bailey (James Stewart) has spent his entire life in the small town of Bedford Falls. Despite his yearning to see the world, George has always sacrificed his personal ambitions for the sake of his family and the local community, settling down to marry his childhood sweetheart, Mary (Donna Reed), and raise a family. However, when a huge amount of money goes missing from his savings and loans company he panics and finds himself preparing to commit suicide. George is shown the error of this idea by Clarence (Henry Travers), an angel who has been sent to Earth in order to earn his wings. To this end, Clarence shows George just how badly Bedford Falls and its residents would have turned out had he never been born. In 'Holiday Inn' (1942) Jim Hardy (Bing Crosby) and Ted Hanover (Fred Astaire) are a successful song and dance double act until Jim decides to retire and become a gentleman farmer following Ted's seduction of his girlfriend. Jim fails as a farmer, but decides to convert his property to an inn that is only open on public holidays. He also finds happiness with the lovely Linda Mason (Marjorie Reynolds) - that is, until Ted shows up! In 'White Christmas' (1954) two army buddies (Crosby and Danny Kaye) team up after the war and become a successful song-and-dance act. While on a skiing holiday the pair stage a benefit to save an inn run by their old commander, who is beset by financial difficulties resulting from a lack of snow. Finally, in 'Scrooge' (1970) miserly Ebenezer Scrooge (Albert Finney) is so mean-spirited that he resents giving his clerk Bob Cratchit (David Collings) the day off for Christmas. At night, Scrooge is visited by the ghost of his late partner Jacob Marley (Alec Guinness), who warns him that three spirits will visit him in an attempt to save his soul.

Director: Frank Capra
Director: Mark Sandrich
Director: Michael Curtiz
Director: Ronald Neame
Producer: Frank Capra
Producer: Mark Sandrich
Producer: Robert Emmett Dolan
Producer: Robert H. Solo
Writer: Frances Goodrich
Writer: Albert Hackett
Writer: Frank Capra
Writer: Jo Swerling
Writer: Claude Binyon
Writer: Elmer Rice
Writer: Norman Krasna
Writer: Norman Panama
Writer: Melvin Frank
Writer: Leslie Bricusse
Music: Dimitri Tiomkin
Music: Irving Berlin
Music: Joseph Lilley
Music: Leslie Bricusse
Cinematographer: Joseph Walker
Cinematographer: Joe Biroc
Cinematographer: David Abel
Cinematographer: Loyal Griggs
Cinematographer: Oswald Morris
Actor: James Stewart
Actor: Donna Reed
Actor: Lionel Barrymore
Actor: Henry Travers
Actor: Thomas Mitchell
Actor: Ward Bond
Actor: Beulah Bondi
Actor: Frank Faylen
Actor: Gloria Grahame
Actor: Frank Albertson
Actor: H.B. Warner
Actor: Bing Crosby
Actor: Fred Astaire
Actor: Marjorie Reynolds
Actor: Walter Abel
Actor: Virginia Dale
Actor: Irving Bacon
Actor: Louise Beavers
Actor: James Bell
Actor: Shelby Bacon
Actor: John Gallaudet
Actor: John Brascia
Actor: Rosemary Clooney
Actor: Dean Jagger
Actor: Danny Kaye
Actor: Richard Shannon
Actor: Grady Sutton
Actor: Vera-Ellen
Actor: Anne Whitfield
Actor: Mary Wickes
Actor: Sig Rumann
Actor: Albert Finney
Actor: Alec Guinness
Actor: Edith Evans
Actor: Kenneth More
Actor: Michael Medwin
Actor: Richard Beaumont
Actor: David Collings
Actor: Frances Cuka
Actor: Derek Francis
Actor: Roy Kinnear
Actor: Laurence Naismith
Actor: Suzanne Neve
Actor: Mary Peach
Actor: Anton Rodgers
Actor: Kay Walsh
Actor: Geoffrey Bayldon
Producer: Robert Emmett Dolan