Edmund Gwenn, with his charming turn as Kris Kringle, is the Trojan Horse. Let him into your house and in no time the moneychangers will drop out and desecrate the place. The spirit of giving and Christmas are here pressed into the service of Macey’s, Christmas commerce, Mammon. “They don’t make ’em like they used to,” they always say. They is a knucklehead.

Dick W.’s cat