. . . Truth about the treasonous Moore family scandal, in which the Tory losers capitalized on a clueless codger's dementia to try to filch the credit for America's most beloved poem from the Revolutionary War Hero who actually penned it and unfortunately circulated it anonymously, never fathoming that a sore defeated Redcoat clan of traitors would brazenly plot to bear false witness that one of their own ilk had authored THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS. The makers of this 1946 film chose to remain neutral about Literary History's biggest controversy, pending the development of computers powerful enough to scientifically prove to even the most wrong-headed skeptic that the droll Captain Henry Livingston wrote this treasure, and NOT the dim-witted no-talent boring cleric C. Moore. Sadly, Moore's money-hungry relatives forced the retired babbler to copy and sign "his" verses, which he never did without making countless mistakes. Shame on the know-nothing who submitted Moore's besmirched moniker in connection with this picture.