Gruen Guild Theater: Joe Santa Claus (1951)
Season 1, Episode 13
7/10
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31 August 2017
BEWARE OF BOGUS REVIEWS & REVIEWERS. SOME REVIEWERS HAVE ONLY ONE REVIEW. WHEN ITS A POSITIVE REVIEW THAT TELLS ME THEY WERE INVOLVED WITH THE PRODUCTION & THAT IS WHAT IS GOING ON HERE FOR THIS FILM! TRUST ME THIS FILM IS TERRIBLE. NOW I HAVE REVIEWED OVER 200 Christmas MOVIES. I HAVE NO AGENDA. I AM FARE.

While preparing for his new position as a department store Santa Claus, Joe (Ray Montgomery) recalls his troubled marriage to Maria (Maria Palmer) and their eventual separation. As Christmas Day approaches, Joe and Maria's young daughter (Jeri James) unexpectedly appears in the toy department to give Santa her special Christmas wish.

This 30 minute Christmas Short is available to stream on Amazon but I would not bother to watch. It is not very moving. There is no magic to it. The cast is fine but the material fails them. I think the overall story might had been better served if the special had be an hour long. The short length makes the ending to jarring.
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