tenth avenue kid
santa claus and the tenth avenue kid
was originally broadcast on 18 / dec / 1955 as part of the first season of alfred hitchcock presents .
santa claus and the tenth avenue kid
is an episode of alfred hitchcock presents starring alfred hitchcock, barry fitzgerald, and virginia gregg. while working as a department store' santa claus', a paroled convict tries to help a troubled boy .
a ex - convict names stretch gets a job as a department store santa. he hopes to rob the store. he meets up with a potential delinquent nicknamed the 10th avenue kid. he decides to take his role as santa seriously and he helps the boy change his ways. (urltoken )
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petty thief harold' stretch' sears has served several prison sentences, and is again out on parole. he is given a job as a department store' santa claus', but his cynical nature makes the job difficult. miss webster, who arranged the job for him, keeps trying to encourage sears, but only succeeds in irritating him. as sears does his best to get through the holiday season, he notices a bad - tempered boy who keeps coming to the store, arguing with him that there is no santa claus, and stealing small items from the store. fearing for the boy' s future, sears feels an odd impulse to do something for the boy .
i have never embraced holiday episodes of shows. hitchcock actually speaks disdainfully of this in the opening segment. he is bricking up his fireplace, hoping to injure santa claus whom he finds arrogant and tiresome. we go to the episode, where barry fitzgerald plays a small time thief who is forced into playing santa at a department store. he is tough and irreverent and gives the kids a bad time. a female social worker latches on to him and makes him toe the line. of course, the christmas spirit eventually gets to him. he acts, even at the risk of his freedom. the nice thing about this episode is that he maintains his hard edge and it doesn' t get too sappy. fitzgerald is a wonderful character actor and made this role his own. it works pretty well, all things considered .
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a detective adopts the tough little son of a gangster to try and get information about the boys father
s gang. the boy refuses and gets in touch with gang, but he is almost murdered and is rescued by the detective .
in this drama, a 12 - year - old boy becomes an orphan after seeing a detective shoot his father. later the detective feels bad and offers to become his friend, but his intentions are not entirely honorable as the detective really wants to know the location of the loot his father stashed during a robbery .
film # 86 of june 2013 challenge detective jim loomis adopts 12 - year - old tommy turner after killing his father in a shootout. loomis tries to convince tommy to identify the accomplices who helped his father in a major bank robbery, but tommy is already set in the ways of criminal code, refusing to be a stool pigeon .
young tommy ryan gives a very mature performance as the gangster orphan. his transformation to the right side of the law was quite believable .
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while working as a department store ‘santa claus’, a paroled convict tries to help a troubled boy .
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a criminal just released from prison finds a job as santa claus for the holiday season .
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( 1945). more than just a child star, o' brien was a talented actress, and was able to meet the dramatic demands of her roles in those films. critic james agee called her
incredibly vivid and eloquent - - almost as hypnotizing as garbo .
she received a special academy award as outstanding child actress of 1944. but scripts that showcased o' brien' s acting abilities instead of her cuteness were rare, and her vehicles became increasingly saccharine .
( 1948) was one of o' brien' s most trouble - plagued films. begun in 1946, this story of a new york tenement child who learns some hard truths about her family and friends took 18 months to reach theaters. it went through script and cast changes, retakes and cutting, and was not released until after
. o' brien was getting to the awkward age, no longer the adorable moppet, but she turns in a fine performance in a demanding role .
( 1945). but lansbury wasn' t a conventionally glamorous leading lady, and mgm didn' t quite know what to do with her. she was often cast as wicked women much older than herself. in
, she got to play the
good girl
for a change. as o' brien' s aunt, who is engaged to marry ex - con george murphy, she even shares some touching moments with o' brien .
( 1949), in which she plays the doomed sister beth. when o' brien refused to go to disney that same year for a planned live - action version of
, mgm suspended her. and in 1951, o' brien retired from the screen at the age of 14. later efforts at comebacks were largely unsuccessful, although she worked in dinner theater, and made some notable guest appearances on television, including one on the series
as for lansbury, she would get her revenge on hollywood, and find the stardom that eluded her in films on broadway and on television. after leaving mgm in 1951, lansbury gravitated toward the theater, at first in summer stock, and eventually in new york. in 1966, she triumphed in
( 1979). but it was television that finally made angela lansbury a household name. in 1984, she began a long run as a miss marple - like sleuth, jessica fletcher, in the series
. the role was not much of a challenge, but lansbury played it charmingly, and over the years, she and her producer husband gained more control over the show. in fact ,
became a family affair in more ways than one. as executive producer, lansbury had a say in casting, and often cast her old mgm friends and co - stars in guest roles. among those who guest - starred on the show was... margaret o' brien .
principal cast: margaret o' brien (flavia mills), angela lansbury (susan bratten), george murphy (steve abbott), phyllis thaxter (helen mills), warner anderson (joseph mills), rhys williams (blind mac), barry nelson (al parker) .
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tenth avenue kid is a 1938 american crime film directed by bernard vorhaus and written by gordon kahn and adele buffington . the film stars bruce cabot , beverly roberts , ben welden , horace mcmahon , john wray and jay novello . the film was released on august 22 , 1938 , by republic pictures . 
tenth avenue kid is a 1938 american crime film directed by bernard vorhaus and written by gordon kahn and adele buffington. the film stars bruce cabot, beverly roberts, ben welden, horace mcmahon, john wray and jay novello. the film was released on august 22, 1938, by republic pictures.
tenth avenue kid is a 1938 american crime film directed by bernard vorhaus and written by gordon kahn and adele buffington. the film stars bruce cabot, beverly roberts, ben welden, horace mcmahon, john wray and jay novello. the film was released on august 22, 1938, by republic pictures.