Cricket on the Hearth

1967 "To have a Cricket on the Hearth is the luckiest thing in all the world!"

Cricket on the Hearth

5.5 | G | en | Animation

A delightful, animated musical version of Charles Dickens' classic tale. A Cricket on the Hearth, tells the story of a poor toymaker and his daughter whom a helpful Cricket named Crocket befriends on Christmas morning. When tragedy strikes the family, it's Crocket who comes to the rescue and restores peace and happiness.

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5.5 | G | en | Animation , Family , TV Movie

Synopsis

Cast

Danny Thomas ,Marlo Thomas ,Roddy McDowall

Director

Jules Bass

Producted By

Rankin/Bass Productions , Thomas/Spelling Productions

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Cast

Danny Thomas

as Caleb (voice)

[1986] One Big Family [1967] Cricket on the Hearth [1967] The Danny Thomas Hour [1953] The Danny Thomas Show [1953] The Jazz Singer [1951] I'll See You in My Dreams

Marlo Thomas

as Bertha (voice)

[2017] The Female Brain [2013] Makers: Women Who Make America [2012] LOL [2000] Playing Mona Lisa [1994] Reunion [1986] Nobody's Child [1984] The Lost Honor of Kathryn Beck [1977] It Happened One Christmas [1974] Free to Be… You and Me

Roddy McDowall

as Cricket Crocket (voice)

[1998] Behind the Planet of the Apes [1997] The Second Jungle Book: Mowgli & Baloo [1997] Obsessed with Vertigo: New Life for Hitchcock's Masterpiece [1996] Star Hunter [1996] Unlikely Angel [1996] Dead Man's Island [1995] The Alien Within [1994] Heads [1994] Hart to Hart: Home Is Where the Hart Is