It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown

It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown

dir. Bill Melendez (CBS, 1966)

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For the most part a stilted rehash of the comic strips, watchable only for the original and moodily evocative Flying Ace turned Downed Pilot animation. Commonly hailed as a masterstroke, the use of authentic child voices results in a jarring school-play amateurism.

 

 

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