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A mean and vindictive old miser"Phinease T.Prune"Played by Rosano
Brazzi)..who didn't a toy sailboat from Santa Claus..when he was a
little boy.
Decides to get even with him..by buying up the entire North
Pole..including Santa's home and toy workshop.
Becomming Santa's landlord.."Mr.Prune"raises the rent bill so
high.
That Santa,"Mrs.Claus"(played by Mr.Brazzi's first wife Lida)
and"Jonathan(Played by Mischa Aurer in his last movie role)..
Santa's bookeeper,accountant and workshop manager can't
pay it.
Needing help..Santa heads for NYC in The USA and
meets up with a kindly but struggiling lawyer"Sam Whipple"
(played by Kids tv's first educator Paul Tripp)to try and deal
with "Mr.Prune".
Santa and "Mr.Whipple"gets jobs at"Prim's Dept Store"
to earn monies to pay the rent bill.("Mr.Prim"is played
by "Wonderama"host..Sonny Fox)
But?
"Mr.Prune" and his butler"Blossom"(played by John Karlen)
foil their efforts by buying out "Mr.Prim"..taking over the
store and firing the pair.
They also deny them their severence pay and "Mr.Prune"
tells them that now there is no way that they can repay
him the rent bill.
When the pair meet with a little boy in the city park
late that night.
"Mr.Whipple"tells the boy their problem..much to
Santa's discomfort.
Seeing that he's in trouble..the boy calls to his
many young friends.
And after gathering all of their penny banks.
The kids meet Santa and"Mr.Whipple"in the city
park giving him their penny banks.
With all the monies that he needs to repay the
old fink.
Santa and"Mr.Prune"return to the North Pole..
where they repay "Mr.Prune"in full and later.
Santa,"Mrs.Claus"and "Mr.Whipple"fly around the
world giving gifts and the even give one to "Mr.Prune"
..the toy sailboat that he never got as a child.
("Jonathan had inadvertedly misplace "Mr.Prune's" letter
to Santa and he was unware that the kid didn't get his
gift).
A perrinal yultide favorite..the movie has been seen many
times in the theaters and on cable tv since 1966.
This is Paul Tripp's and Sonny Fox' only on screen appearance in
a movie.
A mean and vindictive old miser"Phinease T.Prune"Played by Rosano
Brazzi)..who didn't a toy sailboat from Santa Claus..when he was a
little boy.
Decides to get even with him..by buying up the entire North
Pole..including Santa's home and toy workshop.
Becomming Santa's landlord.."Mr.Prune"raises the rent bill so
high.
That Santa,"Mrs.Claus"(played by Mr.Brazzi's first wife Lida)
and"Jonathan(Played by Mischa Aurer in his last movie role)..
Santa's bookeeper,accountant and workshop manager can't
pay it.
Needing help..Santa heads for NYC in The USA and
meets up with a kindly but struggiling lawyer"Sam Whipple"
(played by Kids tv's first educator Paul Tripp)to try and deal
with "Mr.Prune".
Santa and "Mr.Whipple"gets jobs at"Prim's Dept Store"
to earn monies to pay the rent bill.("Mr.Prim"is played
by "Wonderama"host..Sonny Fox)
But?
"Mr.Prune" and his butler"Blossom"(played by John Karlen)
foil their efforts by buying out "Mr.Prim"..taking over the
store and firing the pair.
They also deny them their severence pay and "Mr.Prune"
tells them that now there is no way that they can repay
him the rent bill.
When the pair meet with a little boy in the city park
late that night.
"Mr.Whipple"tells the boy their problem..much to
Santa's discomfort.
Seeing that he's in trouble..the boy calls to his
many young friends.
And after gathering all of their penny banks.
The kids meet Santa and"Mr.Whipple"in the city
park giving him their penny banks.
With all the monies that he needs to repay the
old fink.
Santa and"Mr.Prune"return to the North Pole..
where they repay "Mr.Prune"in full and later.
Santa,"Mrs.Claus"and "Mr.Whipple"fly around the
world giving gifts and the even give one to "Mr.Prune"
..the toy sailboat that he never got as a child.
("Jonathan had inadvertedly misplace "Mr.Prune's" letter
to Santa and he was unware that the kid didn't get his
gift).
A perrinal yultide favorite..the movie has been seen many
times in the theaters and on cable tv since 1966.
This is Paul Tripp's and Sonny Fox' only on screen appearance in
a movie.
