Jack Frost

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Directed by:	Jules Bass Arthur Rankin, Jr.
Written by:	Romeo Muller
Release date:	1979
Running time:	48 minutes
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For the 1998 live-action film, see Jack Frost (1998 film).

Jack Frost is a 1979 stop-motion animated special produced by Rankin/Bass. The special is narrated by Pardon-Me-Pete, a groundhog voiced by Buddy Hackett.

Synopsis

The folks of January Junction are poor and oppressed by their evil ruler, Kubla Kraus, and his mechanical soldiers. Jack Frost, a winter sprite, falls in love with one of the girls of January Junction and asks Father Winter to make him human to try to win her love.

Rankin/Bass

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (1964) Cricket on the Hearth (1967) The Little Drummer Boy (1968) Frosty the Snowman (1969) Santa Claus is Comin' to Town (1970) 'Twas the Night Before Christmas (1974) The Year Without a Santa Claus (1974) The First Christmas (1975) Frosty's Winter Wonderland (1976)   The Little Drummer Boy, Book II (1976) Rudolph's Shiny New Year (1976) Nestor, the Long-Eared Christmas Donkey (1977) The Stingiest Man in Town (1978) Jack Frost (1979) Rudolph and Frosty: Christmas in July (1979) Pinocchio's Christmas (1980) The Leprechauns' Christmas Gold (1981) The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus (1985) Santa Baby! (2001)