Robert Mitchum gives a fine and sensitive performance in the sort of character role from which he normally shied away in this amusing Christmas romantic comedy. He's a department store salesman who takes a shine to vivacious war widow Janet Leigh and spends his last few bucks on a train-set for her gap-toothed, scene-stealing son Gordon Gebert - putting her fiancé's nose right out of joint. The film was (a bit too) sweet-natured but died at the box-office, leading studio RKO to cancel director Don Hartman's contract with them after just two films. He had better luck as a screenwriter for Bob Hope, Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye on such classic comedies as Road to Singapore, Road to Zanzibar, Road to Morocco, My Favourite Blonde and The Kid from Brooklyn. Leigh can't have been too pleased that, at 22, she was cast as the mother of a six-year-old!

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