Santa and the Ice Cream Bunny

Poor Santa Claus. This live-action feature finds his sleigh stuck in the sand on a Florida beach only days before Christmas Eve. He psychically summons prepubescent aid from a nearby subdivision. In order to extricate Santa s sleigh, the local children bring many different animals (presumably the sheep was someone s housepet), but nothing works, and the kids are afraid they won t get any gifts this year. To boost their spirits, Santa tells them the story of Thumbellina, and the setting dissolves into a fantasy within a fantasy. Thumbellina is a beautiful but very tiny girl, not much larger than a clothes pin. She becomes lost in the forest during the winter and finds refuge in the underground home of Mrs. Mole. A neighbor mole, Mr. Digger, falls in love and wants to marry Thumbellina, but she s having none of it. When warm weather returns, she runs back into the forest and deserts the two kindly creatures who saved her life, crushing their spirits forever .. the end. As Santa is finishing his story and yes, that is its intended conclusion he and the children hear the wail of a siren. The Ice Cream Bunny has arrived in his antique fire engine to save the day! Written by Richard Westland Santa and the Ice Cream Bunny is a 1972 American English-language Family Fantasy motion picture starring Jay Clark, Jay Ripley, Shay Garner, Pat Morrell, Bob O connell, Ruth Mcmahon and Steve. Santa and the Ice Cream Bunny was Produced by Barry Mahon. Santa and the Ice Cream Bunny is written by R. Winer and directed by R. Winer and Barry Mahon. R & S Film Enterprises Inc. acquired the distribution rights for the movie. The movie has a running time of 96 minutes. Cinematography was done by R. Winer and William Tobin and editing by R. Winer and Steve Cuiffo. The music was composed by R. Winer along with Ralph Falco, George Linsenmann and Eugene Ventresca.
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