Word: haras
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...calls himself Kris Kringle and isn't kidding. So far as he is concerned, he is the original, the one & only Santa Claus. As such, he is well pleased to take the throne in R. H. Macy & Co.'s toy department. His employer (Maureen O'Hara) regards him as a harmless old lunatic and her grimly progressive little girl (Natalie Wood) is sure he is an outright fraud. Kris stakes his earthly failure or success on winning them over to the faith. Meanwhile he raises hob with the Christmas-rush spirit by directing customers to rival stores...
Miss O'Hara, outraged, sets the house psychiatrist (Porter Hall) on Kris Kringle, but "Mister Macy" calls off the goons when it develops that Kris has turned one of the most lucrative good-will tricks in commercial history. "Mister Gimbel" hurriedly returns the compliment-he and Mister Macy are even photographed shaking hands-and the whole Manhattan department-store trade glows with the new love-your-neighbor policy...
...Homestretch (20th Century-Fox) canters in Technicolor through the not particularly fascinating vicissitudes of a raffish racing man (Cornel Wilde), his Back Bay bride (Maureen O'Hara) and his somewhat Bohemian girl friend (Helen Walker). Miss O'Hara wants Wilde to settle down and stop living out of Miss Walker's pocket; she also tends to misunderstand the free-&-easy way these old friends kiss each other...
...with a search for hidden treasure. When the fabulous jewels and the gold turn out to be a disappointment, Sinbad springs forward to point out a wholesome moral: Where is true treasure? Sinbad [sweeping hand to heart]: "It's here! [clasping forehead]-and here! [sweeping Miss O'Hara into his arms] -and here...
Anthony Quinn and Walter Slezak are suitably hateful as menaces, and Miss O'Hara is gorgeous in Technicolor. Fairbanks is energetic, but seems aware of the dangers of trying to imitate his late father. The elder Fairbanks would not only have given Sinbad more athletic bounce; while he was about it, he would also have slyly kidded the stuffing out of the plot's cloth-of-gold shirt...