Released in 1966, this special animation movie starts with Halloween
time in the Peanuts land. It shows Peanut gang dressed for
'trick-or-treat' and a fun Halloween party at Violet's House as Linus
talks Charlie Brown's sister Sally into waiting for 'Great Pumpkin' with
him. Linus is sure this time, that Great Pumpkin will surely visit their
pumpkin patch this year. Snoopy, Charlie's dog, of course mounts his
Sopwith Camel and goes in search of the Red Baron. Based on the comic
strip 'Peanuts' by Charles Schultz, the film has managed to capture the
real spirit of Halloween from children's eyes in the classic animation
Halloween movie for kids - 'It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown'.
About half hour long, this movie is a critically acclaimed and very
popular animated television special and was nominated for Emmy award
too.
Linus Van Pelt, Charlie Brown's best friend firmly believes in the
existence of the Great Pumpkin who travels around the world on Halloween
to give toys to all the good little children. He waits with Charlie's
little sister, Sally Brown in the pumpkin patch to wait for him while
other members of the gang including Charlie Brown, nasty Lucy,
Schroeder, Pig-Pen, Patty and Violet go for trick-or-treating. They
trade the candies later only to find that everyone gets candy while
Charlie only gets a rock every time in his bag. Linus misses
trick-or-treating and Halloween party at Violet's house, just to catch a
glimpse of his hero. Later, he sees a silhouette of Snoopy in his World
War I Flying Ace outfit and thinks him to be the great Pumpkin and Sally
leaves him in a huff to wait alone.
