Not a Keeper
Added 11/6/2009
As several have already commented, the print quality leaves much to be desired. That aside, this is not a "warm fuzzy" type of Christmas movie. It is a rather bleak look at the holiday, though it may be interesting to you if you have ever sung in an amatuer choir. In spite of the valiant efforts of the big name actors, this left me feeling rather empty and that is not how I like to spend my holiday.
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Not a Classic, but not bad.
Added 11/2/2009
I got this movie in one of those DVD mulitpacks, i had never heard of it before. I watched it and it wasn't bad. Some of the actors are annoying but most of the actors know what their doing. The only thing I really had a problem with was the VERY BAD SOUND AND VIDEO.
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Download this movie for free legally
Added 12/9/2008
This is descent low-budget Christmas movie. What I would like to tell you about is that you can download load this movie for free because it is in the public domain. Just go to this site for the torrent link [...........]
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A Christmas Without Snow
Added 9/18/2008
I have read a lot of the reviews here and I wonder if they watched the same movie I just did. Granted it was made in 1980. The picture quality is not as good as new ones made today. This movie is packed with a lot of very good actors. John Houseman is wonderful in this. This movie covers a lot of every day trials that average people go through. A Black boy is wrongly accused of vandelism. The preachers son is the guilty party. A Mother leaves her home after a divorce to go to another city to try and make a new life for herself and her son. A Womans husband has cancer and the treatment did not work and he dies and she asked the minister why God would take a young men like that. People working together to repair the pipe organ that the preachers son almost distroyed.
The choir working very hard to sound like their new choir director wants them to sound. I thought it was a very moving and interesting movie.
I am glad I bought it and I will watch it again and again.
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Corny,dated, but says interesting things about motivation
Added 12/9/2007
I still think that this is one of the schmaltziest pieces of television film ever made, but it simply wouldn't be Christmas if I didn't suffer through the bad acting and corny,trite story every year! Why do I go back? Well, as man who conducted volunteer church choirs for 33 years (I started really young...I did!!!!), I can appreciate the angst of the amateur who performs for the sake of loving music.That is what this story is about; an amateur choir in a failing inner-city San Francisco Church,who gets a new choir director and organist (way above their level for the pittance pay) to shape them into a uniform group in a period of twelve weeks to perform the great masterwork "Messiah" by Handel.John Housman as the English,tea-sipping curmudgeon Ephraim Adams (Choir director par excellent) is simply a terrible actor in portraying a choir director.He barely moves his arms,and frankly is off-beat most of the time!...but,it is what Adams says that always inspires me enough to watch this piece of late '70's drek every year;there is a difference between the pro and the amateur.The amateur is to be the most respected because they do what they do for the sheer love of it.( I was the professional and did it for MONEY$$$$$$$....not for the love of it,trust me on this!) Naturally, the choir is transformed into nothing short of the same choir transformed in SISTER ACT, and the Church is filled to capacity with sincere people from every walk of life and culture.All dramas and confrontations,petty squabbles and little drams all are joyously resolved by the time "Hallelujah Chorus" is sung! Everything ends happily....I will put it away...and will pull it out again next Christmas...same results...same bad film...same good message!
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Not a Keeper
Added 11/6/2009
As several have already commented, the print quality leaves much to be desired. That aside, this is not a "warm fuzzy" type of Christmas movie. It is a rather bleak look at the holiday, though it may be interesting to you if you have ever sung in an amatuer choir. In spite of the valiant efforts of the big name actors, this left me feeling rather empty and that is not how I like to spend my holiday.
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Not a Classic, but not bad.
Added 11/2/2009
I got this movie in one of those DVD mulitpacks, i had never heard of it before. I watched it and it wasn't bad. Some of the actors are annoying but most of the actors know what their doing. The only thing I really had a problem with was the VERY BAD SOUND AND VIDEO.
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Download this movie for free legally
Added 12/9/2008
This is descent low-budget Christmas movie. What I would like to tell you about is that you can download load this movie for free because it is in the public domain. Just go to this site for the torrent link [...........]
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