![]() Shortly thereafter, Jim runs into an old Army buddy and his family, who are living out of their car due to the city's postwar housing shortage and could sure use a place to stay. Naturally, she's invited to stay at the mansion too, and soon finds herself attracted to Jim. Trudy overhears Mac's confession and, for her own amusement, decides to play along and pose as another homeless person. until Mac quietly pulls him aside and explains his own illicit arrangement. Thinking she's a burglar, Mac and Jim confront her and Jim threatens to call the cops. Unbeknownst to either of them, O'Connor's rebellious 18-year-old daughter Trudy (Storm) has run away from boarding school and soon makes her way back to the mansion, where she enters one night to collect some of her clothes. ![]() Mac generously offers to put Jim up in "his" mansion, and Jim readily accepts. One day in the park Mac encounters Jim Bullock (DeFore), a war veteran who has recently been made homeless thanks to O'Connor buying his apartment building and demolishing it to build an office building in its place. ![]() He sneaks in through a manhole, turns on the heat and electricity, helps himself to some of the generous food supply in the larder, and even "borrows" O'Connor's clothing. "Mac" McKeever (Moore) is an itinerant hobo who spends his winters living in a Fifth Avenue mansion owned by the wealthy industrialist Michael O'Connor (Ruggles), left vacant and boarded up each year while O'Connor and his family are relocated to Virginia until spring. ![]() A Christmas-themed 1947 comedy film directed by Roy Del Ruth and starring Victor Moore, Gale Storm, Don DeFore, Charles Ruggles, and Ann Harding.Īloysius T. ![]()
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