By then Preston Sturges was getting good money and recognised as a talent - he had changed the way the script-writing process had become a factory of writers, each re-writing a version before. This was an original, not as shiny as the later batch of superb comedies, more of a romance with comedy touches (great one liners here and there). A good alternative Christmas film. You might argue Barbara Stanwyck softens too quickly from serial thief in presence of noble Joel McCrea and then his mom Beulah Bondi, aunt Elizabeth Patterson and village idiot Sterling Holloway, though ending doesn't cop out.
Coincidentally another Ted Tezlaff film.
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