When IMDb was in its youth, before there was an I Need to Know Board, they had "Ask the Experts" they tried but failed to answer a question my wife wanted answered. It's been 20 years but the gist was: "It was live action, but there was a character who looked something like Jiminy Cricket and at the end the children brought money and saved Christmas." When the boards started at IMDb, this was one of the first questions asked - it was on the half page of posts that had been submitted - but again, no one knew what it was. Thank goodness MST3K had it in the revival! As soon as I saw the evil landlord setup and the lawyer who one could see as looking like Jiminy Cricket, I was 99% sure this was it. When the kids came through - 100%. She has since passed and I have remarried, but I'm glad I finally figured out the movie that she liked.
Review of The Christmas That Almost Wasn't
