What happens in the Miracle on 34th Street?
A Santa hired by Macy's department store claims that he is the real Father Christmas
A Scrooge-like banker realises the error of his ways and distributes gold among the homeless in midtown Manhattan
An angelic child is born to a virgin mother in a lift in the Empire State Building on a snowy Christmas Eve
A New York cabbie drives God around New York in search of one pure soul to save the entire human race
Which Hollywood legend provided the voice-over for the 1967 TV version of How The Grinch Stole Christmas?
Boris Karloff
Peter Lorre
James Mason
Orson Welles
Now regarded as an American classic, It's a Wonderful Life drew fierce criticism when it was released in 1946. Who hated it and why?
President Truman dismissed the film as a "poorly made and un-Christian movie" and added: "I urge all right-thinking Americans not to see it"
The Christian Alliance of America objected to its "sympathetic" treatment of suicide and dismissed it as "sugared blasphemy in the guise of a Christmas parable"
The FBI labelled it a "subversive" movie and charged that its use of a nasty, Scrooge-like businessman "was a common trick used by communists"
The townsfolk of Bedford Falls tried to sue the makers for depicting their home as "a place of institutional corruption and widespread despair? this is simply not true"
Three bona-fide films for this festive season; one impostor. Spot the odd one out
This Christmas
Fred Claus
Elf Warning
Enchanted
The 1967 Peanuts cartoon A Charlie Brown Christmas preaches "the true meaning of Christmas", but the original version was awash with product placement. What did it contain?
A "Mattel Toys Presents" card before the opening title, plus several scenes featuring the characters on pogo-sticks (that year's most popular toy)
A scene in which Ronald McDonald comforts Charlie Brown, plus numerous shots of children munching contentedly on hamburgers
A subplot in which Snoopy befriends an abandoned dog called Pepsi, who later "invents" a drink that cheers up a miserable Lucy
A scene in which Linus crashes into a sign advertising Coca-Cola and a closing carol wishing: "Merry Christmas from your local bottler of Coca-Cola"
The Preacher's Wife featured Courtney B Vance as the preacher, Whitney Houston as his wife and Denzel Washington as a visiting angel. Name their counterparts in the 1947 original, The Bishop's Wife
David Niven, Loretta Young and Cary Grant
Spencer Tracy, Ingrid Bergman and Joseph Cotton
Bob Hope, Irene Dunne and Danny Kaye
Fredric March (bishop), Mary Astor (wife) and Humphrey Bogart (angel)
What is the name of the toy action figure hunted down by Arnold Schwarzenegger's desperate dad in the family comedy Jingle all the Way?
Aryan Andy
Santa Klaws
Q-Ball
Turbo Man
An American father exhorts his family: "When Santa squeezes his fat white arse down that chimney tonight, he's gonna find the jolliest bunch of arseholes this side of the nuthouse." Name the actor and the Christmas film
Bing Crosby in The Bells of St Mary's
Tim Allen in The Santa Clause
Jimmy Stewart in It's a Wonderful Life
Chevy Chase in National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
How did Scrooge-like director Vincente Minnelli prompt the right hysterical reaction from child star Margaret O'Brien during the snowman-bashing scene in Meet Me in St Louis?
He told her that her beloved dog had just been run over and killed
He hurled a snow ball in her face immediately before rolling the cameras
He informed her that she was fired and that this was the last scene she would ever film
He told her that he was behind schedule and that she would have to work right through Christmas
Which of these Irving Berlin songs did NOT feature in the 1954 film White Christmas?
Let's Start the New Year Right
Count Your Blessings Instead of Sheep
White Christmas
Snow
