that's pretty much my impression of this, the movie doesn't live up to the title. apparently even in a movie from the 1940's someone can be sarcastic... the shop keeper, as well as including a drunk santa claus, the fat jokes seem a bit out of date though, well, the mother of the girl makes the movie completely unbearable, she's rude to everyone including her own daughter and i understand she (the mother) is suppose to have no soul at all and be like a robot but it's just too much... i must have forgot her as i gave this movie a second chance after not liking it first watching it a few years ago, the good ratings and popularity of this movie is a mystery to me, i can only assume the reason to be because of affection as perhaps it's a standard airing on christmas or people having grown up with it, to me this feels like they were actually aiming for another story but used santa claus to tell it, making it weak and only suitable for kids, to get a stronger similar story i rather watch the scrooge tale in "a christmas carol" version, the only great parts in this is santa claus trying to bring the message of christmas but surrounded in a town with people of a different mind set, funny i recognise several actresses in smaller parts as they keep lining up with their children at santa claus, like the one from the end of "dark passage" made in the same year as this, 1947. the dvd cover of this looks better than the original poster, with the small picture of santa claus blown up and the two leads removed.
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the country i grew up in,
transformed by your glowin,
with the years my sight fade,
you came along and repaint,
the world new and magic again,
though youve been here longer time,
youre exotic to my honky state of mind,
fill my soul with something you got,
puts a whole new light over the old countryside.
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