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Fred Astaire, Gary Burghoff, John Byner

The mysterious owner of a costume shop rents a Santa Claus suit to three very different men: a math teacher trying to get the nerve to propose, a homeless restaurateur trying to hide from the mob, and...( read more  read more... ) a harried political speech writer visiting with his estranged wife and son. Their lives are inexorably changed by their experience of playing Santa Claus.

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Directed by: Corey Allen

Release Date: December 23, 1979

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  • YosemiteSamFan
    July 30, 2007
    YosemiteSamFan
    One of my favorite made-for-TV Christmas movies from the late 70's.

    A trio of tales celebrating "The Man in the Santa Claus Suit", with a framing plot of Fred Astaire renting out a Santa Claus suit to three different men from his shop in New York City.

    Story 1 - John Byner ...( read more)plays a good-hearted (but smelly) street person who uses his Santa Claus suit to commit robbery, but winds up celebrating Christmas with the family he was intending to rob.

    Story 2 - Gary Burghoff rents a suit to express his love for the special girl in his life, in a romantic adventure which involves a department store runaround.

    Story 3 - Bert Convy plays an absent father, who rents a suit to win back his young son's affection. It's a scene of a highrise Manhattan family drama.

    In typical Christmas Movie style, the stories all resolve themselves nicely by the end. There is also a neat ending with Fred Astaire donning his own Santa Claus suit.

    Where's the official DVD?
  • sportboy
    December 24, 2007
    sportboy
    This looks quite good.

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  • (1994) If you ever startle Santa and he falls off your roof and dies, whatever you do, don't put his suit on. That is unless you want to become the next Santa Claus. Which funny man played Scott Calvin, the man who found this out the hard way in "The Santa Clause"?  Answer »
  • Christmas is July time: If you ever startle Santa and he falls off your roof and dies, whatever you do, don't put his suit on. That is unless you want to become the next Santa Claus. Which funny man played Scott Calvin, the man who found this out the hard way in "The Santa Clause"?  Answer »
  • (1994) If you ever startle Santa and he falls off your roof and dies, whatever you do, don't put his suit on. That is unless you want to become the next Santa Claus. Which funny man played Scott Calvin, the man who found this out the hard way in "The Santa Clause"?   Answer »
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