Pardon-me Pete, the official groundhog of Groundhog Day, tells the story of Jack Frost, who falls in love with a beautiful young woman and begs Father Winter to make him human so that she can see him. His request is granted, but only on the condition that by the Spring he has a house, a bag of gold, a horse and a wife. But Jack finds that life as a human is more complicated than he thought.
Practical Effects
Gloriously chunky stop-motion snow and ice effects
Acting
Paul Frees doing double duty as Father Winter AND Kubla Kraus
Score
Maury Laws' orchestral winter wonderland
Director
Jules Bass
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was Rankin/Bass's only theatrical feature that bombed, then found its audience through decades of TV reruns. The groundhog framing device was added for broadcast padding.
Kubla Kraus's design and castle echo the 'mechanical tyrant' tropes of 1970s energy crisis anxiety—he literally runs on coal and spite.
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