Santa and the Ice Cream Bunny (1972)

Directed by

Barry Mahon

Genre

family film, Christmas film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 10m

Rated

G

Rating

2.6 of 10 from 27 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Santa gets his sleigh stuck in the sand on a beach in Florida. Local children help him try to free it, and a long movie-within-the-movie plays.

whimsicalbizarrelow-budgetnostalgicepisodicsurrealdatedsillykitschy

What happens

Santa and the Ice Cream Bunny is a 1972 American musical fantasy film written, composed, shot, edited and directed by Richard Winer to frame Barry Mahon's Childhood Productions films for a Christmas release. The plot concerns Santa Claus' attempts to free his sleigh from the sands of a Florida beach, assisted by local children. Different prints feature one of two films-within-the-film (that take up a majority of the film itself). They are Mahon's previously filmed 1970 adaptations of Hans Christian Andersen's Thumbelina or Benjamin Tabart's Jack and the Beanstalk. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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