Comedy

Drama

Family

Miracle on 34th Street

20th Century Fox

United States of America

English

Edmund Gwenn

John Payne

Maureen O'Hara

Natalie Wood

Philip Tonge

Porter Hall

Alvin Greenman

Harry Antrim

James Seay

Jerome Cowan

Gene Lockhart

William Frawley

Lela Bliss

Jack Albertson

Sam Bagley

Arline Bletcher

Walden Boyle

Dorothy Christy

Dick Cogan

Jeff Corey

Mike Donovan

Teddy Driver

Mary Field

William Forrest

Curt Furberg

Jack Gargan

Robert Gist

Jane Green

Alvin Hammer

Theresa Harris

Percy Helton

Herbert Heyes

William Hoehne Jr.

Clark Howat

Robert Hyatt

Richard Irving

Robert Karnes

Fran Lee

King Lockwood

Marlene Lyden

Robert Lynn

William Marion

Mae Marsh

Ida McGuire

Joseph McInerney

Clyde McLeod

Charles Meakin

Richard Neill

Jean O'Donnell

Anne O'Neal

Harry 'Snub' Pollard

Lorin Raker

Bob Reeves

Thelma Ritter

Stephen Roberts

John Roy

Jeffrey Sayre

Irene Shirley

Patty Smith

Ray Spiker

Ann Staunton

Brick Sullivan

Anthony Sydes

Guy Thomajan

Arthur Tovey

Basil Walker

William Perlberg

George Seaton

Lloyd Ahern Sr.

Cyril J. Mockridge

Charles G. Clarke

Robert L. Simpson

Ben Nye

Ernest Lansing

Fred Sersen

Roger Heman Sr.

Arthur von Kirbach

Richard Day

Richard Irvine

Valentine Davies

Thomas Little

Kay Nelson

Alfred Newman

Edward B. Powell

Maurice De Packh

Lyman Hallowell

Charles LeMaire

Sheryl Deauville

Peter McGinn

This is one of the classic holiday pics I will watch every year if it is available to me (Oh no; he said “holiday” instead of Christmas. Blasphemy!) So I will neither pick it apart nor praise it to the heavens. The story writing is strong and the ensemble cast do a good job. The fact that it has been redone so many times speaks for itself. I won’t even try to compare it to the other versions. Instead, as I read in the Pearls Before Swine comic strip, “The floot-floot did a boom-boom on the jim-jam.” (Another way of saying “It is what it is.”)

CinemaSerf

I suppose if anyone was ever to play the definitive Santa Claus, then it would have had to be Edmund Gwenn. The glint in his eye, the smile and the avuncular look all lends itself so very well to this tale of the Christmas nay-sayers! Set in the toy department of the legendary Macy's toy store in New York, we meet this character who steps in to help out at the city's famous parade after their existing "Santa" gets a bit too inebriated. An instant success with the crowd, he is hired to run the shop's grotto and soon sales are going through the roof. It turns out that he is none too loyal though, and when news reaches his bosses that he is advising the parents where better deals on their gifts can be obtained, things look a bit precarious - or has he hit on the ultimate PR idea! Success never comes alone and resentful of his success certain people engineer an altercation in which our "Kris Kringle" ends up in court. Insisting before learned judge "Harper" (Gene Lockhart) that he is really from the North Pole, what now ensues is a comical, sprightly-written, court-room drama that requires the prosecutor "Mara" (Jerome Cowan) to prove, conclusively, that - well... It is interesting that the posters gave top billing to Maureen O'Hara and to John Payne as neither character are really necessary as the story builds up into the ultimate test of what we believe - or, what we choose to believe. Gwenn is in his element and this is just one of those films that I think it's impossible not to like - at least once a year.

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