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Great Rupert (Motion picture)

The Great Rupert is sci-fi pioneer George Pal's first feature film. Starring Jimmy Durante in one of his most memorable screen performances, The Great Rupert is the heart-warming tale of a loveable trained squirrel, a puppet animated through Pal's Academy Award-winning Puppetoon technique, who inadvertently helps a family of vaudeville performers who are down on their luck.

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  • "Christmas wish"@en
  • "George Pal's"@en
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  • "The Great Rupert is sci-fi pioneer George Pal's first feature film. Starring Jimmy Durante in one of his most memorable screen performances, The Great Rupert is the heart-warming tale of a loveable trained squirrel, a puppet animated through Pal's Academy Award-winning Puppetoon technique, who inadvertently helps a family of vaudeville performers who are down on their luck."@en
  • "The Great Rupert is sci-fi pioneer George Pal's first feature film. Starring Jimmy Durante in one of his most memorable screen performances, The Great Rupert is the heart-warming tale of a loveable trained squirrel, a puppet animated through Pal's Academy Award-winning Puppetoon technique, who inadvertently helps a family of vaudeville performers who are down on their luck."
  • ""This charmingly original story about a poor family and a Christmas miracle features American recording legend, Jimmy Durante, bellowing Christmas carols as you've never heard them before, and Rupert the squirrel, drawn into the film using Academy Award winning animation...""
  • "Barely able to pay rent in a converted garage adjoining the home of a man who's been stockpiling lucrative investment dividends in the floorboard between the two homes. From his cubbyhole in the wall, resourceful Rupert has been tossing wads of $100 bills to Durante's wife, who thinks it's cash from heaven!"@en
  • "Rupert, a squirrel who lives in the rafters of the destitute Amendola family's apartment, brings Christmas cheer to the family by showering them with a weekly gift of money that comes from the landlord's secret wall stash."
  • "The tale of Rupert, a trained squirrel, who inadvertently helps a family of vaudeville performers who are down on their luck."@en
  • "The tale of Rupert, a lovable trained squirrel who unknowingly helps a family of vaudeville performers who are down on their luck."
  • "The tale of Rupert, a lovable trained squirrel who unknowingly helps a family of vaudeville performers who are down on their luck."@en
  • ""Jimmy Durante plays the patriarch of a faded vaudeville team who suddenly finds a great deal of money hidden in his house. The authorities suspect Durante of being a thief, but in fact the culprit is a beneficent squirrel named Rupert. Once everything is straightened out, Durante makes a triumphant return to the stage, with Rupert as his 'teammate.'"--Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide."@en
  • "Down on their luck, a Vaudeville family moves into a dreary ground floor apartment where Rupert the squirrel lives up in the rafters. On Christmas eve, Mama Amendola prays for a miracle. With help from clever Rupert, she gets one when crisp new greenbacks rain down from the heavens, changing the Amendola's lives forever. Complications arise when Papa Amendola starts a wild spending spree with his new-found riches. Rumors also fly about daughter Rosalinda, whose charms have captivated a wolfish talent scout and the landlord's struggling musician son, Peter DIngle. With its reputation at stake, the besieged family isn't sure if it faces ruin or redemption."@en
  • "The tale of Rupert, a trained squirrel, who unknowingly helps a family of vaudeville performers who are down on their luck."
  • "The tale of Rupert, a trained squirrel, who unknowingly helps a family of vaudeville performers who are down on their luck."@en
  • "The tale of Rupert, a trained squirrel, who unknowlingly helps a family of vaudeville performers who are down on their luck."

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  • "Christmas films"
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