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Santa and the Fairy Snow Queen

  • 1951
  • 26m
IMDb RATING
2.8/10
119
YOUR RATING
Santa and the Fairy Snow Queen (1951)
FamilyFantasyShort

One of Santa Claus' "brownies" (elves) introduces the story of the Fairy Snow Queen, who plays a trick on Santa Claus by bringing all the toys to life just before Claus is due to deliver the... Read allOne of Santa Claus' "brownies" (elves) introduces the story of the Fairy Snow Queen, who plays a trick on Santa Claus by bringing all the toys to life just before Claus is due to deliver them to children around the world. She shows Claus what she's done and the toys demonstrate t... Read allOne of Santa Claus' "brownies" (elves) introduces the story of the Fairy Snow Queen, who plays a trick on Santa Claus by bringing all the toys to life just before Claus is due to deliver them to children around the world. She shows Claus what she's done and the toys demonstrate their abilities. The toys are distraught when Claus says they must be turned back into inan... Read all

  • Director
    • Sid Davis
  • Writer
    • Robert Niel Porter
  • Stars
    • Rochelle Stanton
    • Edmund Penney
    • Margo Von Leu
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • IMDb RATING
    2.8/10
    119
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Sid Davis
    • Writer
      • Robert Niel Porter
    • Stars
      • Rochelle Stanton
      • Edmund Penney
      • Margo Von Leu
    • 6User reviews
    • 2Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • See production info at IMDbPro
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    Rochelle Stanton
    • Snoopy
    Edmund Penney
    • Santa
    Margo Von Leu
    • Fairy Snow Queen
    • (as Margot von Leu)
    Jenny Neal
    • Rag Doll
    Lee Porter
    • Musical Doll
    Don Oreck
    • Jack-in-the-box
    Bob Porter
    • Toy Soldier
    Audrey Washburn
    • Baby Doll
    Joanna Lamond
    • Peasant Doll
    Patrick Clement
    • Candy Lion
    • (as Pat Clement)
    • Director
      • Sid Davis
    • Writer
      • Robert Niel Porter
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    1zjack1233

    Weird and creepy!

    Truly horrible do not watch!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    9mollymauk1962

    Jack in the Box is Worth it...and the Queen is HOT

    Forget these other reviews. They don't get it at all. To read them, you would think the best thing is to pass this by. If you were to pass this by, you would miss the LAUGH OUT LOUD moments that occur EVERY TIME the Jack in the Box has a line, line, line.

    That Jack makes Charlie in the Box looks like Keanu Reeves. Watch it and fast forward to the parts with Jack. He's funnier than Amy Schumer!

    Of course, anyone is funnier than Amy Schumer.

    Okay, Jack in the Box is funnier than any Saturday Night Live skit of the past twenty-five years.

    But that's not much different from the Schumer thing, is it? Aw heck, just watch it! Trust me, you WILL laugh out of loud every time Jack opens his mouth, mouth, mouth.
    1planktonrules

    Is Snoopy the Brownie the most annoying children's movie character ever? If not, she sure comes very close!

    The movie is introduced by Snoopy the Brownie (Rochelle Stanton)...and you soon realize that Snoopy is super-annoying and you want to slap her. Imagine that you tell Ms. Stanton to play the character AFTER taking a double-dose of amphetamines and you'll have somewhat of an idea what she is like. Add to this a heaping helping of creepiness and you have Snoopy! This alone is reason enough not to watch this crappy film...but there's more! The plot is a bit like The Nutcracker (after all, the music is public domain!) visits Santa's workshop...along with liberal doses of operatic singing. Just who is the audience?! The kids will absolutely hate the music and dancing and might just have nightmares because of Snoopy! The adult, provided they aren't diabetic, will be bored to tears. The diabetics will simply die from all the syrupy, sloppy acting! Overall, this is a holiday film for no one...not a single person on planet Earth could enjoy this boring mess...not one. My advice is to only show this to the bad kids who get coal for Christmas!!
    amosduncan_2000

    Something Weird Brings the Disturbing

    This short appears to have been done in LA in 51, some of the actors went on to very limited acting careers and the ultra disturbing Jack-in-the-box Don Oreck had a somewhat successful one. This short may have been created for early TV in the LA Market. It is included in "Something Weird Videos" quite excellent "Retro Christmas" collection.

    A fairy Snow Queen (who's value system is all based on the potential "fun" in any act) brings some toys to life as rather petty revenge on Santa for forgetting to give her her sugar cookie. Minor complications ensue.

    If you like the strange, retro, black and white and somehow just wrong aspects of the Christmas season, this is for you in a big way. Don't miss it.
    1critic-2

    Hilariously bad

    This is, without a doubt, one of the worst short films ever made with a Christmas theme. The story revolves around a beautiful Fairy Snow Queen who brings some of Santa's toys to life as a practical joke because -- wait for it! --Santa fell asleep and didn't give her the sugar cookie he promised. (No, I am not kidding.) The acting is so awful it has to be seen to be believed, and according to IMDb, the actor who plays Santa Claus incredibly went on to better things, unless he is being confused with another actor with the same name. The film looks as if it were made in somebody's basement, although it was shot in color. Come to think of it, it probably *was* made in somebody's basement.

    The film's only saving grace is that it includes music from Tchaikovsky's ballets "The Nutcracker" and "The Sleeping Beauty", but two of the pieces are so badly danced that poor Tchaikovsky and his choreographers are probably rolling over in their graves.

    If you are a connoisseur of bad films, you will probably love this. It makes "Plan 9 from Outer Space" look like "Hamlet".

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    • Trivia
      This was riffed live by the guys from MST3K under the Rifftrax name(Michael J. Nelson, Bill Corbett and Kevin Murphy), as part of their Live Rifftrax of "Santa Claus Conquers the Martians".
    • Quotes

      Snoopy: My name is Snoopy.

      [giggles]

      Snoopy: Santa Claus calls me Snoopy because, I snoop. I work for Santa Claus, I used to make toys like all the other little brownies, but that was when I was much younger. Now Santa has a special job for me. Did you ever hear the door close and you look around and there isn't anybody there? And the shutter goes bang-bang-bang-bang-bang and there isn't any wind? And the floor cree-e-ee-aks, and you sit up in bed and you say 'Is that you, Daddy?' Well it isn't your daddy, nor your mommy neither. It's me! I'm the little brownie that goes around to all the children's houses to see if they've been good boys and girls. Yes sir, I know all about you little boys and girls, I know the ones that ate their breakfast, and the ones that put away their toys. Which brings me to the reason Santa sent me here to talk to you. From what I see and what we hear way up in Toyland, a lot of the toys that Santa and his brownies have worked so hard to make get broken, and lost, and left out in the rain. You see I have another job too, all the toys that are broken and forgotten, Santa has me pick up in a bi-i-ig basket, and take to the land of lost and forgotten toys. Well, none of the toys want to go there, as you can surely imagine, so Santa thought that if I came here and told you how the fairy snow queen first gave toys life, that then you would appreciate them more and take better care of them.

    • Alternate versions
      Although the film was shot and is available in color, some prints were struck in black-and-white.
    • Connections
      Featured in Retro Christmas Classics (2007)
    • Soundtracks
      The Nutcracker
      (excerpts)

      Music by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

      Played by uncredited offscreen orchestra over the opening credits and several other scenes

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    • Release date
      • 1951 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Production company
      • Sidney Davis Productions
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    • Runtime
      • 26m
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Mono
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.33 : 1

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