If you hated Disney's Babes in Toyland (1961) try the original from 1934

Love this movie! Hysterical.

The 1986 version with Drew Barrymore and Keanu Reeves gave me the heebie jeebies as a child. Some of the characters still show up in my dreams from time to time.

One pf my favorite guilty pleasures.

Stannie Dee, disguised as Bo Peep on her wedding day, sobs through his tears that he can't marry Mr. Barnaby: "I don't love him!"

Thanks, OP.

^ of my favorite

Fun fact: the villain Silas Barnaby was played by Henry Kleinbach, who was still in his early 20s. Kleinbach, who was one of the gays, had a decades-long relationship with Mark Herron, interrupted only briefly by Herron's marriage to Judy Garland.

The original 1934 version is also colorized and has become popular for Christmas holidays viewing.

I always found this movie very creepy. But I would watch it every year on Thanksgiving.

The feral freak out of an ending always surprises me. It’s like Resident Evil, 1930s style.

I also remember the original being shown on TV on the old "UHF" channels during the Holidays as a kid, usually one of the very first such programs after Thanksgiving during that period leading up to Christmas and New Year's.

They used to show this on channel 11 in NYC every Christmastime. Only, it was called March of the Wooden Soldiers.

Reading the Wikipedia entry about it was interesting. I've always assumed it was public domain, because you'd see super cheap looking VHS and DVD version of it in discount bins. But, no!

"In 1950 a 73-minute edited version was distributed by Lippert Pictures, retitled March of the Wooden Soldiers; it was released without a copyright notice. The edited version of the film had the opening tune "Toyland" trimmed and the "Go to Sleep (Slumber Deep)" number cut completely. Also removed were Barnaby's attempted abduction of Little Bo-Peep and his ultimate fistfight with Tom-Tom.[17] March of the Wooden Soldiers has been distributed by many motion picture and home video companies over the decades, as if it were in the public domain; however, because it relies entirely on copyrighted material from the 1934 film, March of the Wooden Soldiers itself falls under the same copyright as its parent film and will not truly enter the public domain until that film's copyright expires in 2030. Nexstar has not enforced its copyright on March of the Wooden Soldiers, effectively making the film an orphan work."

I find that shit SO interesting. "An orphan work." I'm actually surprised Disney doesn't do something about it, because they'd struck a deal with MGM in 1936 to use Mickey Mouse (who is completely frightening looking in the movie) and the song Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Woolf.

My grandma was born in 1905, and circa Christmas 1995, I remember cranking up her old stereo system and putting on a Babes in Toyland Broadway cast album she bought when it was popular. The song Toyland came on. She she closed her eyes her head tilted upward. She said "It's 1929, and I'm listening to Toyland and I'm beautiful." This was after a glass or two of wine at dinner, and a smart eggnog. Miss her.

[quote] I find that shit SO interesting.

I put mine in the toilet.