Mr. Krueger's Christmas

Mr. Krueger's Christmas (1980)

Willy Krueger, a lonely and aging widower, lives in a basement apartment with only his cat George for company. Finishing his work for the day as the custodian for the building, he ventures out on Christmas Eve to buy a tree and on the way, he imagines he is a well-dressed gentleman while peering at some fine tailoring in a shop window along the snowy street. Returning home, he falls asleep listening to an LP by The Mormon Tabernacle Choir, dreaming that he is conducting them in carols of the season. Awakening to find some carollers outside his window, he beckons them to visit him offering hot chocolate, but they leave after only one song. In trimming the tree, he places upon it the mittens left behind by Clarissa, the youngest of the carolling group. Handling figures of the small nativity beneath his tree, Willy finds himself in the manger for the very first Christmas.

Date of release
1980-12-21
TMDB
6.2 / 10 (19)
Runtime
26m
Genres
TV Movie, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Music
Director
Kieth Merrill

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Filmed in: Salt Lake City

Mr. Krueger's Christmas is a 1980 American Christmas short television film produced by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, starring James Stewart, directed by Kieth Merrill, with story by Michael H. McLean, and featuring the Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square. It was first broadcast on NBC on December 21, 1980.

Production

Parts of the special were shot in Salt Lake City, Utah.

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