Mickey Rooney credited as playing...
Kris Kringle • Santa Claus
- Burgermeister Meisterburger: Stop! In the name of the law! You brats are under arrest! Take them away.
- Kris: Don't arrest those children. It was my fault. I gave them the toys.
- Burgermeister Meisterburger: You? How dare you! You are obviously a nonconformist and a rebel!
- Kris: Me? Rebel?
- Burgermeister Meisterburger: Arrest this man immediately!
- Kris: [pulls out a toy] For you.
- Burgermeister Meisterburger: [sputters] A yo-yo? I love yo-yos! I used to be able to do all kinds of tricks! Ooh wheeeeeeeeee! Hoo hoo hoo hoo!
- [plays with the yo-yo]
- Grimsley: Excuse me, sir, but you're breaking your own laws.
- Burgermeister Meisterburger: What? What are you saying?
- [sputtering]
- Burgermeister Meisterburger: Ooohh, I have been bamboozled! Arrest him! Arrest him!
- Kris: Look, uh, before you do me in, would you tell your tree friends to let me loose for a second? You see, I have something for you.
- Winter: What is this? A trick?
- Kris: Oh, no sir, Mr. Warlock. Or, may I call you Winter?
- Winter: Mr. Warlock if you please!
- Kris: Oh. Well, I managed to save one little toy and I'd like you to have it.
- Winter: You wish to give me... a present? A... a toy?
- Kris: Yes, sir.
- Winter: But, no one ever gives mean old Warlock a toy.
- Kris: It turned into quite a proposition. I can hardly keep up with the orders. I'm afraid I'm going to have to limits my journeys to... to one a year. But on which night should I go out? I wonder...
- Kris: [after hearing the Burgermeister has outlawed toys] Gee, that's kind of a silly law.
- Jessica: If the Burgermeister saw you, we would all be in great danger.
- Kris: [his eyes widen] In danger from toys? Why, that's the silliest thing I ever heard.
- Jessica: Toys are frivolous, impractical, unproductive, and...
- [Kris reaches into his sack and shows her a doll]
- Jessica: What's that?
- Kris: For you.
- [she takes it from him]
- Jessica: A China doll? I always wanted one when I was a little girl but my parents wouldn't...
- [kisses the doll]
- Jessica: Oh, thank you, I mean..
- Kris: Watch out for that dolly, she's a hardened criminal I hear.
- [winks]
- Jessica: Well, maybe it is a silly law, uh I mean...
- Kris: Well, what do you say you help me hand out these presents, huh? It's too big a job for one oversized Kringle and a little lost penguin.
- [laughs]