Cricket on the Hearth

TV Movie
1967
U
49m

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Roddy McDowall, Marlo Thomas, Ed Ames, Hans Conried, and Paul Frees in Cricket on the Hearth (1967)

Adventure Animation Comedy Family Fantasy Musical

A cricket seeks to rescue a poor toymaker and his blind daughter from an exploitative miser.A cricket seeks to rescue a poor toymaker and his blind daughter from an exploitative miser.A cricket seeks to rescue a poor toymaker and his blind daughter from an exploitative miser.

Directors
- Jules Bass
- Arthur Rankin Jr.
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5.5/10

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Directors
- Jules Bass
- Arthur Rankin Jr.
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Danny Thomas

Self
(voice)
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Marlo Thomas

Bertha
(voice)

Ed Ames

Edward
(voice)

Hans Conried

Tackleton
(voice)

Abbe Lane

Moll
(voice)

Paul Frees

Messanger
(voice)
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The Norman Luboff Choir

Themselves
(singing voice)

Roddy McDowall

Cricket Crocket
(voice)

Directors
- Jules Bass
- Arthur Rankin Jr.
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Trivia
Real life father and daughter Danny Thomas and Marlo Thomas played father and daughter in this cartoon special.

Quotes
Monkey: Now where's our pay?
Captain: I've got your pay off right here, lad.
[pulls out a gun and shoots them]

Connections
Featured in Phelous & the Movies: Cricket on the Hearth: Part 1 (2014)

Soundtracks
Parade Of The Toys
Music by Maury Laws
Lyrics by Jules Bass
Performed by The Videocraft Studio Orchestra Conducted by Maury Laws

User reviews21

Featured review

6/10

Unhumable Original Songs Prevent this Cricket from Singing

BEWARE OF FALSE REVIEWS & REVIEWERS. SOME REVIEWERS HAVE ONLY ONE REVIEW TO THEIR NAME. NOW WHEN ITS A POSITIVE REVIEW THAT TELLS ME THEY WERE INVOLVED WITH THE MOVIE. IF ITS A NEGATIVE REVIEW THEN THEY MIGHT HAVE A GRUDGE AGAINST THE FILM . NOW I HAVE REVIEWED OVER 300 HOLIDAY FILMS. I HAVE NO AGENDA.

Cricket on the Hearth is a Christmas special produced by Rankin/Bass, and based on the story of the same title by Charles Dickens..

A talking cricket helps an impoverished toy maker and his daughter, who has been blinded after hearing her beloved is lost at sea. It is book-ended by live-action segments hosted by Danny Thomas.

Not a bad special but this 1967 Television special has too many songs and none of them are very good.

What does work is Television Icons Marlo Thomas and Danny Thomas bring life into an otherwise lifeless script.