After McTeague is finished with the patient, Marcus, an assistant in the local dog hospital, introduces his fiancee Trina o him:Mac, old pal, I wantcha to shake hands with my cousin.On he day after Thanksgiving, while dressing up in his own authentic ""Santa Claus"" costume in the Macy""s employees locker room, Kris met another worker, impressionable 17 year-old Alfred (Alvin Greenman) from Brooklyn, who was a janitor at the store.).Deciding that it wasn""t safe to continue to confront the three with so many innocent people around, although he was deemed a "coward," Superman soared off to a more secluded place.The next day, Jim""s first day at his new high school, he nervously leaves for school from his suburban home without eating breakfast with his family, but he is forced to take his father""s advice about choosing his friends and not letting them choose him:You knock ""em dead like your old man used to.This is the best-remembered film version of the novel, but there were others:it was previously filmed as a silent by director Herbert Brenon in 1926, starring Ronald Colmanit was remade in 1966 by director Douglas Heyes, with Telly Savalas as the cruel, sadistic sergeant at the fortcomedian Marty Feldman directed and starred in Universal""s parodyThe Last Remake of Beau Geste (1977), with cleverly-edited footage from the 1939 version spliced inThe film received two Academy Awards nominations (with no wins): Brian Donlevy received his only Academy Award nomination (Best Supporting Actor) for his performance as the sadistic, horrendous Sergeant Markoff - the film changed his nationality from French to Russian to avoid offending the French legionnaires and French film audiences.