Rankin/Bass Productions Popular Movie

From a riddle-speaking butterfly, a unicorn learns that she is supposedly the last of her kind, all the others having been herded away by the Red...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Alan Arkin

Sam the snowman tells us the story of a young red-nosed reindeer who, after being ousted from the reindeer games because of his glowing nose, teams...

Genre: Animation

Cast: Burl Ives

Bilbo Baggins the Hobbit was just minding his own business, when his occasional visitor Gandalf the Wizard drops in one night. One by one, a whole...

Genre: Family

Cast: Orson Bean

An adaptation of the Rankin/Bass cartoon, "The King Kong Show". King Kong is brought in by the evil Dr. Who to dig for Element X in a mine when the...

Genre: Action

Cast: Akira Takarada

Widowed Welsh mother Anna Loenowens becomes a governess and English tutor to the wives and many children of the stubborn King Mongkut of Siam. Anna...

Genre: Animation

Cast: Miranda Richardson

Two Hobbits struggle to destroy the Ring in Mount Doom while their friends desperately fight evil Lord Sauron's forces in a final battle.

Genre: Animation

Cast: Orson Bean

The realm of magic is being threatened by the realm of logic, so Carolinus, the green wizard decides to shield it for all time. Ommadon, the evil red...

Genre: Animation

Cast: Victor Buono

Pardon-me Pete, the official groundhog of Groundhog Day, tells the story of Jack Frost, who falls in love with a beautiful young woman and begs...

Genre: Family

Cast: Buddy Hackett

A discarded silk top-hat becomes the focus of a struggle between a washed-up stage magician and a group of schoolchildren, after it magically brings...

Genre: Family

Cast: Jackie Vernon

A postman, S.D. Kluger, decides to answer some of the most common questions about Santa Claus, and tells us about a baby named Kris who is raised by...

Genre: Animation

Cast: Fred Astaire

Rudolph must find Happy, the baby new year, before the midnight of New Year's Eve.

Genre: Animation

Cast: Red Skelton

Lion-O is haunted by nightmares of Thunderians being killed on Thundera while he fled to the safety of Third Earth with Jaga and the other...

Genre: Animation

Cast: Bob McFadden

When Dr Frankenstein decides to retire from the monster-making business, he calls an international roster of monsters to a creepy convention to elect...

Genre: Animation

Cast: Boris Karloff

Feeling forgotten by the children of the world, old St. Nick decides to skip his gift-giving journey and take a vacation. Mrs. Claus and two spunky...

Genre: Animation

Cast: Shirley Booth

In this animated pilot based on the SNL sketch, The Coneheads come to conquer Earth but they soon find themselves becoming domesticated.

Genre: Animation

Cast: Dan Aykroyd

After being kidnapped and escaping, young drummer boy Aaron searches for his camel and finds him in the Nativity of the Baby Jesus. Aaron gives Baby...

Genre: Animation

Cast: Ted Eccles

Winterbolt is trying to make the North Pole his evil wonderland, and it is up to Frosty the Snowman, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and others to...

Genre: Animation

Cast: Red Buttons

Nestor the donkey is a bit of an oddity--his long ears are enough for six donkeys and stretch all the way to the ground. One night, when Nestor is...

Genre: Animation

Cast: Roger Miller

Years have passed since Frosty left for the North Pole, but his promise is kept when he hears news of the first snowfall of the season, and decides...

Genre: Animation

Cast: Andy Griffith

A young Hans Christian Andersen goes in search of knowledge in the Garden of Paradise in order to make his studies easier. Each time he falls asleep,...

Genre: Animation

Cast: Paul O'Keefe