“Desk Set” and “Meet Me in St. Louis” have Christmas scenes.
Quite possibly the best movie ever made about a grinchy fellow who tries to steal Christmas.
That looks hilarious. I may have to try it.
Yes, Yes, Yes! Trippy and surreal. Is it available on DVD now? A few years ago it was available only on tape (someone got it for us as a wedding present (!) ).
I must go looking for it on DVD! (crosses fingers)
Just thought of another good one:
The Jimmy Stewart movie that gets all the attention this time of year is It’s a Wonderful Life, but my personal favourite Stewart Xmas movie is Ernst Lubitsch’s masterpiece, The Shop Around The Corner. Don’t let that execrable Tom Hanks remake, You’ve Got Mail, scare you away from the sophisticated, witty original.
Sadly, it doesn’t seem to be on DVD yet. ABC Family reruns it pretty regularly around December, at least, so there’s a good chance and catching and recording it.
More suggestions…
The Christmas Toy—Courtesy of Jim Henson. An old family favorite at my house—we still have the tape of the original airing, complete with all the Kraft ads. Great music, too. ::sniff:: Sorry, something in my eye.
A Muppet Family Christmas—I saw this one, once, as a kid, and have consistently missed chances to see it again since. It was pretty good, and very atmospheric, as I remember.
The Forgotten Toys—An odd, bittersweet little animated tale from the UK. Kinda like Toy Story, if it’d been written by Dostoyevsky. Also features Bob Hoskins as a teddy bear.
My favorite Christmas movie: Mixed Nuts, with Steve Martin, Madeline Kahn, Rita Wilson…
From Wiki the plot of The Christmas Toy
Hummm…
To me it just isn’t christmas without:
Ernest Saves Christmas, the Laurel and Hardy-esque shipping clerks are worth the price of admission alone.
A Midwinters Tale/In the Bleak Midwinter, hard to find, excellent Kenneth Branagh story about putting on Hamlet at christmas by unemployed actors, good luck finding it.
Zebra—It’s a lot better than it looks from the description (I mean, c’mon…with a bad synopsis, you could make the plots to half the Star Wars movies sound lousy).
It’s NOT bad, but it’s no Alistair Sim or Patrick Stewart versions. Too me, a quality version has to include Marley’s restless phantoms. IIRC, though, the Scott version does include the two ghastly urchins, another mark of quality.
Scott’s certainly better than the Reginald Owen was, of course.
Of course, you can’t beat Mr. Magoo’s for the musical number with the ghouls at the pawn shop! 
Oh dear God, I was in Grad School when it came out and thought- Rankin-Bass + L. Frank Baum + Santa Claus. How can that go wrong?
Again- oh dear God!
As I tried in vain to describe to a friend in Grad School how bad it was, he summed it up “So basically it tried to supply an explanation for every Christmas tradition… and did so quite badly.”
BINGO!
But it’s better than The Leprechaun’s Christmas Gold! What the hell is that?!?!
One I’d like to see (but which, to my knowledge, has only been broadcast once, and has never been available on any video format) is Rod Serling’s A Carol for Another Christmas. That certainly has to qualify as obscure. Written by the creator of The Twilight Zone at the top of his form in 1964:
Apparently there’s a copy at the NY Museum of Broadcasting. Might have to make a special trip.
A couple of TV movies from the '80s that should be watched at least once: Christmas Comes to Willow Creek and The Night They Saved Christmas.
I strongly recommend The Hebrew Hammer, in which Santa and Tiny Tim are the bad guys.
A Wish For Things That Work, with Opus and Bill the Cat is fantastic and hardly ever mentioned.
And now out on DVD.
I just remembered one that has never AFAIK been released on video & is rarely seen at Christmas- and which I saw BEFORE “It’s A Wonderful Life”- the gender-switching “It Happened One Christmas” with Marlo Thomas & Wayne Rogers in the Jimmy Stewart-Donna Reed roles, Cloris Leachman as Clara the Angel, and Orson Welles as Mr. Potter.
Apologies to all- I liked it!
[sub]…pssst… it’s “Wings”…[/sub]
No, it just sounds a whole bunch like another movie that centers around toys that come to life when people aren’t around and they better not get caught and the new space toy that doesn’t know they are a toy.