Simple Gifts (1977) - Double Feature

No empty Double Features


Please create a new Double Feature

Create a new Double Feature


A collection of animated Christmas shorts: An original Maurice Sendak piece about a boy with nothing to give for Christmas -- An excerpt from the early part of Virginia Woolf's "Orlando" set in a time of extreme cold in Tudor England -- A short based on the Toonerville Trolley -- A bittersweet excerpt from Moss Hart's autobiography "Act One" narrated by Jose Ferrer -- A reading from the Christmas day entry from the diary of 11-year-old Teddy Roosevelt -- A reading of a letter by Captain Edward James Hulse describing the surprising Christmas Truce of 1914 -- An animated version by R.O. Blechman of his own book "Tutto Esaurito" (No Vacancy) about the travels of Mary and Joseph.


Main Cast: Colleen Dewhurst, Hermione Gingold, José Ferrer, Dean Wareham, David Jones, Paul Dooley, Claudette Sutherland

Directors: R.O. Blechman, Phillip Schopper

Writers: Maurice Sendak, R.O. Blechman

Editor: Joe Canestro

Cinematographer:


Sign In to create Double Features

or

Sign Up if you don't have an account already