Film Snail

6.9

Frosty the Snowman

NR·1969·25m

Family

Animation

TV Movie

Family

Animation

TV Movie

Summary

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 a snowman to life. Realizing that newly-living Frosty will melt in spring unless he takes refuge in a colder climate, Frosty and Karen, a young girl who he befriends, stow away on a freight train headed for the north pole. Little do they know that the magician is following them, and he wants his hat back!

Cast

Jackie Vernon

Frosty the Snowman (voice)

Jimmy Durante

Narrator (voice)

Billy De Wolfe

Professor Hinkle (voice)

Paul Frees

Santa Claus / Traffic Cop / Additional Voices (voice)

June Foray

Teacher / Karen / Additional Voices (voice)

Suzanne Davidson

Karen (uncredited)

Greg Thomas

Karen's friends (uncredited)

Crew

Director

Jules Bass

Director

Arthur Rankin, Jr.

Writer

Romeo Muller

Reviews

GenerationofSwine

January 14, 2023

It's pure nostalgia again. It was on television almost every Christmas from 1969 to today. It was a Christmas tradition...

...and now unfortunately it's a tradition that is being copied by a thousand low-rent cartoons that even snatch the cover in their cheap imitations....

...but in any case, about two generations of American kids grew up with this as a part of their Christmas holiday, along with Rudolph and the puppet Santa cartoon. It's as much a part of Christmas as "It's a Wonderful Life" and "A Christmas Story," and it has spanned the generations.

Unfortunately it's on less and less now days and being replaced with, well, with NEW shows that don't have the generational love behind them.