Reviewer wrong on trivia

In your trivia remarks about the film, you claim first that the film was set in the late 19th century. However, they are using a panel truck to deliver the Christmas presents to the Indians. In one scene, Autry notices that Jay Silverheels is wearing a military service medal. "Guadacanal?" Gene asks, and Silverheels responds, "No, Iwo Jima." There was a Native American at Iwo Jima who helped raise the U.S. flag. The point is, Gene's westerns often were set in the modern West ("The Last Roundup") where the villians drove trucks to rustle the cattle and the good guys rode horses. The second point the reviewer was wrong on was the song, "Here Comes Santa Claus." This had already been introduced by Gene on his radio show in 1947. He wrote the song after he was Grand Marshal of the 1946 Hollywood Christmas Parade. He heard the children calling out to Santa who was riding behind him. This gave him the inspiration to this song. There was a song "Santa Claus is Coming to Town" which came out originally in the early Thirties, but gained popularity in the Forties with the Bing Crosby/Andrews Sisters record which is heard on the soundtrack of "The Christmas Story." Also, while Burnette and Buttram were not in the film, Gene was trying different sidekicks. His sidekick in the film was Hank Patterson,a ranch hand who doesn't trust Indians but in the end, plays Santa Claus. Autry also used Alan Hale Jr. and Gordon Jones in his films for comic relief.