Esther Dale

A recently-unemployed man is helping a child who'd otherwise find disappointment under the Christmas tree. The boy's war-widowed mom notes the gesture, and she's drawn to the handsome stranger--but could she possibly choose a man without a job to the moneyed attorney she's been seeing?

This hilarious and high-spirited musical stars Danny Kaye as a professor of high-brow music who inadvertently becomes involved with a sensual saloon singer (Virginia Mayo) and a crooked criminal gang.

"John Brighton isn't known as a fighting man, Instead, he's simply Doc to folks in a small 1870s Oklahoma Territory town, a physician who's done more than his share of delivering babies, patching wounds or tending to a child's upset stomach. But when town bullies set out to intimidate and swindle a poor Indian landowner out of his oil-rich property, Doc wants to make things right. And underscoring his actions is a whole history of injustice and racism"--Container....