Richard Attenborough credited as playing...
Kriss Kringle
- Kris Kringle: You think I'm a fraud, don't you?
- Dorey Walker: Fraud is a bit too strong of a word.
- Kris Kringle: But you don't believe in me.
- Dorey Walker: I believe that Christmas is for children.
- Kris Kringle: Well your daughter doesn't believe in me, either.
- Dorey Walker: I don't think that there's any harm in not believing in a figure that many do acknowledge to be a fiction.
- Kris Kringle: Oh, but there is. I'm not just a whimsical figure who wears a charming suit and affects a jolly demeanor. You know, I I I'm a symbol. I'm a symbol of the human ability to be able to suppress the selfish and hateful tendencies that rule the major part of our lives. If you can't believe, if you can't accept anything on faith, then you're doomed for a life dominated by doubt.
- Kris Kringle: Mr. Collins, I hope you've taken down that old TV antenna. I ripped my pants on it last year.
- Bailiff: Do you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth?
- Kris Kringle: Yes, but don't I put my hand on a Bible?
- Bailiff: No, sir, you don't.
- Kris Kringle: Well, I'll put my hand on my heart instead. I do.
- [first lines]
- Grandson: Ask him.
- Judge Henry Harper: Shh.
- Grandson: Ask him.
- Judge Henry Harper: Shh!
- Grandson: Look at him, Grandpa. Ask him.
- Judge Henry Harper: Ryan, that's enough.
- [to the stranger before him]
- Judge Henry Harper: Uh, I'm sorry. He, uh he thinks you're Santa Claus.
- [Kris Kringle and Judge Harper laugh]
- Kris Kringle: [quietly to Harper's grandson] I am.
- Kris Kringle: [to Harper] Merry Christmas.
- Kris Kringle: Hi Judge, how is the grandson of yours?
- [Harper gets shocked]
- Kris Kringle: The parade? He thought I looked like Santa Claus.
- Judge Henry Harper: Oh yeah.
- Dorey Walker: Would you be our Santa Claus?
- Kris Kringle: Uh, me?
- Dorey Walker: Well, do you have any experience?
- Kris Kringle: Well just a little.
- Kris Kringle: Well, I would greatly like to oblige, Mr. Collins, but I cannot make this reindeer fly.
- Ed Collins: I didn't think so.
- Kris Kringle: He only flies on Christmas Eve.