It Came Upon the Midnight Clear
It Came Upon the Midnight Clear

It Came Upon the Midnight Clear

Watch TrailerWatch Movie
1984
1h 36m
5.6(7 votes)
TV Movie
Drama
Fantasy

Overview

Retired cop Mike Halligan decides to show his grandson, who has never seen snow before, what a real white Christmas in New York is like. But a sudden fatal heart attack derails those plans, and Halligan makes a deal with the Archangel of Heaven to return to Earth for a week until Christmas in order to give his grandson the seasonal glories of New York City.

Links & Resources

IMDbView

Social & External

IMDb

Production Companies

Columbia TriStar Television

Videos & Trailers

1 video

Cast & Crew

53 members
Acting

Mickey Rooney

Mike Halligan

Mickey Rooney
Acting

Scott Grimes

Robbie Westin

Scott Grimes
Acting

Barrie Youngfellow

Kate Westin

Barrie Youngfellow
Acting

George Gaynes

Arch Angel

George Gaynes
Acting

Gary Bayer

Rick Westin

No Image
Acting

William Griffis

Riley Boggs

No Image
Acting

Christina Pickles

Chris

Christina Pickles
Acting

Hamilton Camp

Meek Angel

Hamilton Camp
Acting

Elisha Cook Jr.

Mr. Bibbs

Elisha Cook Jr.
Acting

Nicholas Hormann

Mr. Jones

Nicholas Hormann
Acting

Wynn Irwin

Santini

Wynn Irwin
Acting

Hector Elias

Ramos

Hector Elias
Acting

Barbette Tweed

Joanie

Barbette Tweed
Acting

Lew Horn

Johnson

Lew Horn
Acting

Annie Potts

Cindy Mills

Annie Potts
Acting

Lloyd Nolan

Monsignor Donoghue

Lloyd Nolan
Acting

Alyson Kirk

Missy Westin

No Image
Acting

Lurene Tuttle

Mrs. Hunt

Lurene Tuttle
Acting

George Pentecost

Dr. Kent

No Image
Acting

Garry Goodrow

Cabbie

Garry Goodrow
Acting

Ollie O'Toole

Janitor

No Image
Acting

Beans Morocco

Harried Angel (as Dan Barrows)

Beans Morocco
Acting

Buddy Douglas

Elf #1

No Image
Acting

Billy Curtis

Elf #2

Billy Curtis
Acting

Jerry Maren

Elf #3

Jerry Maren
Acting

Jan Rooney

Music Teacher (as Jan Chamberlain)

Jan Rooney
Acting

Paddi Edwards

Charity Lady

Paddi Edwards
Acting

Seth Wagerman

Scott

No Image
Acting

Michael Laskin

Assistant

Michael Laskin
Acting

Benny Baker

Harry

Benny Baker
Acting

Gary Imhoff

Freddie the Mailman

Gary Imhoff
Acting

Eve Smith

Mrs. Honeywell

Eve Smith
Acting

Eric Uhler

Jim Johnson

No Image
Acting

Dick Paxton

Salesman

No Image
Acting

Irwin Keyes

Guard

Irwin Keyes
Acting

Joe Van Endres

Paramedic #1

No Image
Acting

Jimmy Bridges

Paramedic #2

No Image
Acting

Edgar Justice

Ed

No Image
Acting

Eddie Pisano

Kid

No Image
Acting

John Welsh

Jogger

John Welsh
Acting

Nick DeMarinis

Bellhop

No Image
Acting

Ellen Gerstein

Nurse

Ellen Gerstein
Acting

Roger Scott

Father Karl

No Image
Acting

Chino 'Fats' Williams

Calvin

Chino 'Fats' Williams
Directing

Eric Stacey

Weatherman

No Image
Acting

Ernie Banks

Host

No Image
Directing

James Fry

Street Hustler

No Image
Acting

Erwin Fuller

Manager

No Image
Acting

Ray Bengston

Perry

No Image
Acting

Christopher Aber

Mailperson (uncredited)

Christopher Aber
Production

Van Kaplan

Businessman (uncredited)

No Image
Acting

Angella Kaye

Kid (uncredited)

No Image
Acting

Mark Rodney

Cop (uncredited)

Mark Rodney

Similar Movies

Babes in Toyland
6.3
1934

Babes in Toyland

Ollie Dee and Stannie Dum try to borrow money from their employer, the toymaker, to pay off the mortgage on Mother Peep's shoe and keep it and Little Bo Peep from the clutches of the evil Barnaby. When that fails, they trick Barnaby, enraging him.

Movie
Reno 911!: It's a Wonderful Heist
5.6
2022

Reno 911!: It's a Wonderful Heist

It’s Holiday Season in Reno, and Lieutenant Dangle wishes he’d never been born. With the help of a roller skating “Angel,” he learns how much better the lives of the other deputies would be if he never existed. Will he decide to live on anyway? There’s still Christmas criminals to catch!

Movie
Holiday in Handcuffs
6.3
2007

Holiday in Handcuffs

A ne’er-do-well thirty-something attempts to appease her family by kidnapping herself an attractive boyfriend for the family Christmas. Despite unlikely odds and dysfunctional family moments, the two fall in love and share a magical Christmas.

Movie
Bernard and the Genie
7.3
1991

Bernard and the Genie

Bernard Bottle, a mild mannered art buyer, is fired by his greedy boss, abandoned by his girlfriend and discovers a genie in an old bottle. The genie immediately embraces the modern world and helps Bernard on the side.

Movie
Mixed Nuts
5.3
1994

Mixed Nuts

The events of a crisis hotline business on one crazy night during the Christmas holidays.

Movie
Turk 182!
5.8
1985

Turk 182!

After New York City firefighter Terry Lynch is unable to receive any compensation for an injury incurred during the off-duty rescue of a young girl, he grows suicidal. Furious, his brother Jimmy attempts to have Mayor Tyler intervene, but the corrupt politician instead denounces Terry as a drunk. Determined to get justice, Jimmy begins a graffiti campaign of embarrassing slogans mocking the mayor, which soon captivates the city.

Movie
Frosty Returns
5.6
1992

Frosty Returns

Mr. Twitchell, a greedy old businessman, has invented Summer Wheeze: a spray that instantly removes snow and slush! Now Holly has to keep Frosty from melting, and convince everybody that snow's actually a good thing.

Movie
His Mother's Thanksgiving
4.5
1910

His Mother's Thanksgiving

This holiday-themed melodrama released by Edison Studios in 1910 concerns Robert, a young man who leaves his mother’s home in New England to forge a career in the big city. When he achieves “fame and fortune” six years later, his proud mother can’t wait to welcome him home for Thanksgiving. Robert, however, intends to stay in the city to enjoy a holiday feast with his society friends and beautiful fiancée. When Mom decides to pay a surprise visit on Thanksgiving Day, she is saddened to find that her son is so ashamed of her that he relegates her to an upstairs room, out of sight and out of mind.

Movie
Halloweentown
6.8
1998

Halloweentown

On her 13th birthday, Marnie learns she's a witch, discovers a secret portal, and is transported to Halloweentown — a magical place where ghosts and ghouls, witches and werewolves live apart from the human world. But she soon finds herself battling wicked warlocks, evil curses, and endless surprises.

Movie

Weihnachtsüberraschung(en)

Nurse Nora is looking forward to her first Christmas vacation in years and wants to spend it quietly and relaxed with her mother Ellen. She doesn't really mind that her brother Moritz, formerly Maike, isn't coming, as she has always felt inferior to him. But then not only Moritz turns up, Grandma Lore also changes her plans and, to make matters worse, they are joined by their widowed neighbor Rolf and his detestable son Bent, as well as their daughter Katja and grandson Fritz, due to a faulty heating system.

Movie
Manhattan Cocktail
1928

Manhattan Cocktail

Nancy Carroll stars in Manhattan Cocktail as Babs, a college coed who dreams of becoming a famous actress. Joining up with her campus chums Fred (Richard Arlen) and Bob (Danny O'Shea), likewise aspiring thespians, Babes heads to Broadway with stars in her eyes. The winsome threesome are quickly disillusioned by the heartless machinations of nasty producer Renov (Paul Lukas) and his harridan wife (Lilyan Tashman). Before the plot proper gets under way, the audience is regaled with a cute "mythological" prologue, featuring the same three leading actors. Manhattan Cocktail was a silent picture, except for two brief musical numbers showcasing Nancy Carroll.

Movie
Emanuelle Around the World
5.5
1977

Emanuelle Around the World

The increasingly politicised Emanuelle gets deeper into fighting an international trade composed of sex, violence and high profile players.

Movie
Heidi
6.8
1937

Heidi

Heidi is orphaned and her uncaring maternal Aunt Dete takes her to the mountains to live with her reclusive, grumpy paternal grandfather, Adolph Kramer. Heidi brings her grandfather back into mountain society through her sweet ways and sheer love. When Dete later returns and steals Heidi away to become the companion of a rich man's wheelchair-bound daughter, the grandfather is heartsick to discover his little girl missing and immediately sets out to get her back.

Movie
Fossil
2.8
2014

Fossil

Paul and Camilla’s marriage is in trouble. They head to a picturesque cottage in the South of France to work through their problems and try to inject some love back into their marriage. As their relationship unravels, the holiday is hijacked by an American and his French girlfriend. Looking for an excuse to pause the hostilities, Camilla invites them to stay at the cottage...

Movie
Alien Xmas
6.5
2020

Alien Xmas

A young elf mistakes a tiny alien for a Christmas gift, not knowing her new plaything has plans to destroy Earth's gravity — and steal all the presents.

Movie
The Flight Before Christmas
5.8
2008

The Flight Before Christmas

A young reindeer named Niko dreams about flying like his father, whom he has never met. Despite constant teasing from others, he sneaks out of his home valley to take flying lessons from Julius, a flying squirrel.

Movie
A Christmas Carol
7.0
1938

A Christmas Carol

Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the dire fate that awaits him if he does not change his ways. Scrooge is faced with his own story of growing bitterness and meanness, and must decide what his own future will hold: death or redemption.

Movie
Nothing Like the Holidays
6.3
2008

Nothing Like the Holidays

It’s Christmastime and the far-flung members of the Rodriguez family are converging at their parents’ home in Chicago to celebrate the season and rejoice in their youngest brother’s safe return from combat overseas.

Movie
One Foot in the Algarve
7.5
1993

One Foot in the Algarve

The Meldrews go on holiday to Portugal with Mrs Warboys, who is hoping for romance with her penpal Alfonso. Photographer Martin Trout follows them there, believing they have a roll of film that belongs to him.

Movie
Make the Yuletide Gay
6.1
2009

Make the Yuletide Gay

The holidays get overly festive as Olaf "Gunn" Gunnunderson, an out-and-proud gay college student, crawls back into the closet to survive the holidays with his parents. But when his boyfriend, Nathan, shows up at their doorstep unannounced, Gunn must put on a charade to keep the relationship a secret. With pressure mounting from all sides, will Gunn come out before the truth does?

Movie

Recommended Movies

Falling in Love
6.7
1984

Falling in Love

During shopping for Christmas, Frank and Molly run into each other. This fleeting short moment will start to change their lives, when they recognize each other months later in the train home and have a good time together. Although both are married and Frank has two little kids, they meet more and more often, their friendship becoming the most precious thing in their lives.

Movie
The Night Before the Night Before Christmas
5.4
2010

The Night Before the Night Before Christmas

When Santa sets off on his Christmas duties a day early, crashes into the Fox family's house, ends up with amnesia and loses his magic sack of presents, he needs help! But the Fox family are a modern and broken family. Can they help him? The parents are preoccupied with work and the kids aren't very festive. But it's up to them to help Santa find his magical bag of toys and the clock is ticking or Christmas will be ruined. Forced to set their own problems aside and work together the Fox family rediscover how much they enjoy being together and realise that maybe they need to reprioritise their lives. The Night Before The Night Before Christmas is a crazy Christmas fantasy for all the family, brimming with festive spirit.

Movie
Oppenheimer
8.0
2023

Oppenheimer

The story of J. Robert Oppenheimer's role in the development of the atomic bomb during World War II.

Movie
Joker
8.1
2019

Joker

During the 1980s, a failed stand-up comedian is driven insane and turns to a life of crime and chaos in Gotham City while becoming an infamous psychopathic crime figure.

Movie
PK
7.7
2014

PK

A stranger in the city asks questions no one has asked before. Known only by his initials, the man's innocent questions and childlike curiosity take him on a journey of love, laughter and letting go.

Movie
Shutter Island
8.2
2010

Shutter Island

World War II soldier-turned-U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels investigates the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane, but his efforts are compromised by troubling visions and a mysterious doctor.

Movie
Titanic
7.9
1997

Titanic

101-year-old Rose DeWitt Bukater tells the story of her life aboard the Titanic, 84 years later. A young Rose boards the ship with her mother and fiancé. Meanwhile, Jack Dawson and Fabrizio De Rossi win third-class tickets aboard the ship. Rose tells the whole story from Titanic's departure through to its death—on its first and last voyage—on April 15, 1912.

Movie
Ex Machina
7.6
2015

Ex Machina

Caleb, a coder at the world's largest internet company, wins a competition to spend a week at a private mountain retreat belonging to Nathan, the reclusive CEO of the company. But when Caleb arrives at the remote location he finds that he will have to participate in a strange and fascinating experiment in which he must interact with the world's first true artificial intelligence, housed in the body of a beautiful robot girl.

Movie
Eden Lake
6.8
2008

Eden Lake

When a young couple goes to a remote wooded lake for a romantic getaway, their quiet weekend is shattered by an aggressive group of local kids. Rowdiness quickly turns to rage as the teens terrorize the couple in unimaginable ways, and a weekend outing becomes a bloody battle for survival.

Movie
Julieta
7.0
2016

Julieta

The film spans 30 years in Julieta’s life from a nostalgic 1985 where everything seems hopeful, to 2015 where her life appears to be beyond repair and she is on the verge of madness.

Movie
12 Angry Men
8.5
1957

12 Angry Men

The defense and the prosecution have rested and the jury is filing into the jury room to decide if a young Spanish-American is guilty or innocent of murdering his father. What begins as an open and shut case soon becomes a mini-drama of each of the jurors' prejudices and preconceptions about the trial, the accused, and each other.

Movie
Pulp Fiction
8.5
1994

Pulp Fiction

A burger-loving hit man, his philosophical partner, a drug-addled gangster's moll and a washed-up boxer converge in this sprawling, comedic crime caper. Their adventures unfurl in three stories that ingeniously trip back and forth in time.

Movie
Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
7.4
2019

Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood

Los Angeles, 1969. TV star Rick Dalton, a struggling actor specializing in westerns, and stuntman Cliff Booth, his best friend, try to survive in a constantly changing movie industry. Dalton is the neighbor of the young and promising actress and model Sharon Tate, who has just married the prestigious Polish director Roman Polanski…

Movie
Interstellar
8.5
2014

Interstellar

The adventures of a group of explorers who make use of a newly discovered wormhole to surpass the limitations on human space travel and conquer the vast distances involved in an interstellar voyage.

Movie
Tenet
7.2
2020

Tenet

Armed with only one word - Tenet - and fighting for the survival of the entire world, the Protagonist journeys through a twilight world of international espionage on a mission that will unfold in something beyond real time.

Movie
Carol
7.5
2015

Carol

In 1950s New York, a department-store clerk who dreams of a better life falls for an older, married woman.

Movie
The Truman Show
8.1
1998

The Truman Show

An insurance salesman begins to suspect that his whole life is actually some sort of reality TV show.

Movie
Black Swan
7.7
2010

Black Swan

The story of a ballerina in a New York City ballet company whose life is completely consumed with dance. Nina lives with her retired ballerina mother who zealously supports her daughter's professional ambition. When the artistic director decides to replace the prima ballerina for the opening production of their new season, Nina is his first choice.

Movie
Extraction
7.3
2020

Extraction

A hardened gun-for-hire's latest mission becomes a soul-searching race to survive when he's sent into Bangladesh to rescue a drug lord's kidnapped son.

Movie
Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn)
6.9
2020

Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn)

Harley Quinn joins forces with a singer, an assassin and a police detective to help a young girl who had a hit placed on her after she stole a rare diamond from a crime lord.

Movie