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Miracle on 34th Street (1947)  link to Miracle on 34th Street on IMDb  

Number: 345

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IMDb Rating:
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7.9/10 (34216 votes)

Country: USA, 96 minutes

Spoken Languages: English, Dutch

Genre(s): Drama, Comedy, Family

Director(s): George Seaton

Storyline:
At the Macy's Department Store Thanksgiving Day parade, the actor playing Santa is discovered to be drunk by a whiskered old man. Doris Walker, the no nonsense special events director, persuades the old man to take his place. The old man proves to be a sensation and is quickly recruited to be the store Santa at the main Macy's outlet. While he is successful, Ms. Walker learns that he calls himself Kris Kringle and he claims to be the actual Santa Claus. Despite reassurances by Kringle's doctor that he is harmless, Doris still has misgivings, especially when she has cynically trained herself, and especially her daughter, Susan, to reject all notions of belief and fantasy. And yet, people, especially Susan, begin to notice there is something special about Kris and his determination to advance the true spirit of Christmas amidst the rampant commercialism around him and succeeding in improbable ways. When a raucous conflict with the store's cruelly incompetent psychologist erupts, Kris ...

Cast:

Maureen O'Hara Doris Walker
John Payne Fred Gailey
Edmund Gwenn Kris Kringle
Gene Lockhart Judge Henry X. Harper
Natalie Wood Susan Walker

Medium: VHS tape,

Loaned: No

Aspect ratio: 4:3