Although the Winter segment is one of the shortest vignettes, the film is still considered a favorite Christmas movie.The scenes of the Tramp find him alternating between scenes as an assembly-line factory worker (where he is literally fed by a machine and then - when the monotony overtakes him - becomes he ""food"" in the cogs and gears of another machine), a shipyard worker, a department store night watchman, an overstressed singing waiter, or an occupant in jail." The lawyers must cover up their mis-use of Semple funds.The dead man""s crooked lawyer wants to have jurisdiction over Deeds"" money before he books are audited: "Those books will never leave this office.Marketing slogans cried: "The Happiest Sound in All the World." Ernest Lehman""s screenplay was based on the book by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse.That book was in turn based on Baroness Maria von Trapp""s 1949 autobiography (The von Trapp Family Singers) about he exploits of the family of singers and their escape from the Nazis in Austria in 1938.He questioned Ethan""s prior recommendations regarding young trainee agent Lindsey Farris and her ability to be engaged in "active field duty" -- in a failed surveillance mission.