Academy Award winner Barry Fitzgerald portrays a larcenous-minded department store Kris Kringle. As a toughened criminal just out of prison, Fitzgerald is put to work by a welfare agency as a department store Santa. He is glad to get the job and intends to try to make good. But he no sooner does he take over his new exalted post then he discovers he still has larceny in his heart. Evil thoughts pervade his mind until a little roughneck from 10th Avenue, a potential delinquent, puts him on the defensive by challenging him on the virtues of the jolly old fellow from the North Pole. watch