A poor girl and boy help to reconcile a wealthy couple on the verge of a divorce.
This is fun program that stars Sheldon Leonard as Hardwick Harris. Harris is a hobo, riding the rails from location to location, but every Christmas Eve, no matter where he is, the local post office will have a general delivery letter for him containing $50. This year the sheriff finds it a little strange that Harris doesn't even know the name of the city he's in and yet has mail waiting. He runs him in, in a bid to keep his freedom Hardwick tells the story of a short order cook in a diner he once met who could see into the future.
A sea captain gives a man a magic monkey's paw with the warning that even though one can get three wishes fulfilled with it, much pain will result. And, after the man and his family suffer greatly, they discover that the captain was right. But fortunately, it was all a dream the old man had, and when he wakes up he throws the paw into the fire.
The happy home life of a reformed ex-convict is disrupted by the appearance of a former cellmate.