This is one for the oldies. I'm trying to locate an old Christmas TV movie that doesn't seem to appear in any listing I can find having spent hours trawling Google.
Firstly I know it does exist because I had a bookmark link for it for years. Unfortunately the PC that had it suffered a catastrophic meltdown and the link was lost to me.
Anyway onto the film; it was based on the song "The Twelve Days of Christmas" but it wasn't named that. It was silent, inasmuch there was no dialogue, the verses of the song played on the soundtrack though.
The film was shown several years running just before Christmas on what was the old commercial channel ATV during the period mid sixties to mid seventies, it may have been shown in Black and white - however my bookmarked version was in colour -
The film was in a Victorian/Edwardian setting, on the first day of Christmas a young nervous man arrived at his girl-friends house bearing a "Partridge in a pear tree" in keeping with the words of the song.
On the second day the man arrived with "Two turtle doves" and another "Partridge in a pear tree" each day he arrived on a different mode of transport ranging from bone-shaker bicycle, penny farthing and various different vintage motor cars.
The third day he brought "three French hens" another pair of "Turtle doves" and yet another "Partridge in a pear Tree". You can see where this is going now, each day he arrived to the bemusement of the girl with the subject of each verse, plus another of each of the following verses. To take an example; by the end of verse twelve there were forty "maids-a-milking" (verse eight) and their cows packed into the house, not to mention one hundred and twelve "Lords-a-leaping"
To say it was hilarious is an understatement, I would love to have this back in my bookmarks again (backed-up this time)
It happens I think this is not the first time this film has featured in this forum, I have a vague memory a long (long) time ago I posted the link, when I had it, to another interested member. I have dredged the archives but can't find it.
Does anybody else remember this film, or indeed do you have a link for it, can anybody help? please
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