Jack realizes his mistake and sets Santa free, returning to Halloweentown with renewed vigor for his former existence. Bill Murray as modern day scrooge Frank Cross, network executive. Few surprises here, and for my money, the animated Mister Magoo's Christmas Carol , is leagues ahead, with Jim Backus as the befuddled voice of Magoo, singing his way through ghosts past, present and future. You can't compete against Mr. Magoo. Little Billy watches his parent's get killed one Christmas Eve by a naughty man in a Santa Claus suit.
Punishment is good.
Bing Crosby stars, as the handsome priest who croons his way into the heart of Mother Superior, played by Ingrid Bergman. Not romantically of course, but Crosby and Bergman clearly have a rapport beyond the cordial. In the final scene, when Crosby tells Bergman he is sending her off to Arizona not because he thinks she runs the school badly but because she has tuberculosis, Bergman's face lights up with a religious ecstasy bordering on the sexual. It's A Wonderful Life. Arnold Schwarzeneger plays Howard Langston, a workaholic dad who misses his son's karate advancement ceremony in the opening scene and spends the whole movie trying to make up for it.