Holiday Affair (1949)

A young widow working for a department store as a "comparison shopper" accidentally gets a man fired from a rival store when he decides not to turn her in. He's a good sport about it and they wind up spending the day running the rest of her work errands together. When they get separated, he tracks down her address to bring the rest of her packages to her and gets to meet her son -- and her boyfriend.

Though it's exactly my kind of story -- especially as the man is played by Robert Mitchum -- it falls a little flat for some reason. Is it the kid? The boyfriend? The scene in the police station that should've been a riot but somehow felt a little too quiet? I'm not sure. All of the elements of a classic Christmas movie are there, but it just never finds the magic.

B- (down a bit from my last watch)