March of the Wooden Soldiers

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March of the Wooden Soldiers is my favorite of all the holiday movies. I remember it being played each year on Thanksgiving, thanks, in part, to Dialing for Dollars.

And yeh, I know this thread is late, but if you take into account the octave week (eight days of Christmas beginning Dec 25) we are still, technically, in the Christmas season. So if you haven't yet seen the movie -- rent it! And do not settle for anything less then the colorized version!

From the Village Voice:
"... On an arctic December night in Brooklyn when I was a tot, my family went to visit a local Christmas attraction. It was one of those "Christmas wonderland" houses, popular at the time, and people lined around the block to take in its colorful lights and seasonal set pieces.
Atop my mother's shoulder I caught my first glimpse of this candy-cane world and a couple of lifesize, papier mache soldiers, and asked:
"Do Laurel and Hardy live here?"
No adults laughed at me, but they may have smiled, because they all knew what I was talking about: Laurel and Hardy's March of the Wooden Soldiers (originally Babes in Toyland), which had already become part of New York's holiday traditions ..."

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