Miracle on 34th Street (Special Edition)
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Features
• AC-3
• Black & White
• Dolby
• Dubbed
• DVD-Video
• Full Screen
• Special Edition
• NTSC
In Theaters : 02 May, 1947
DVD Release : 21 November, 2006 |
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Miracle on 34th Street (Special Edition) Customer Reviews
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A holiday classic!
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It's Christmas Day as I am writing this review, so what better thing to do than to review one of the classic Christmas movies! This is an emotional movie, pulling all the right strings to get the audience's predictable response. And it works well! This is, for what it's worth, in my judgment, the preferred Christmas movie.
It has many different components that make the overall production work. First, the cast. The lead players are well portrayed, with John Payne as the idealistic attorney, Maureen O'Hara as the flinty, pragmatic non-nonsense mother of the "too grown up for her age" Natalie Wood, acting early in her career. Other actors fill out the cast nicely, with William Frawley as a hard-boiled political operative to the judge, Gene Lockhart, who will preside over the court case that serves as the climax of the movie.
Second, the plot line is crisply laid out and moves along nicely. A drunk Santa Claus at Macy's is replaced by Edmund Gwenn, who calls himself Kris Kringle. His behavior is at first thought harmful to the store--but redounds to Macy's benefit. Then, he is accused of being mentally incompetent because of his belief that he is, in fact, Santa Claus. John Payne, who has become close to O'Hara's character, takes Kris Kringle's case to court. There, the befuddled judge has to make some politically charged decisions. Such as: Is there a real Santa Claus? If so, is Kris him? The US Post Office plays a key role in the outcome, and there is a happy ending--with a special nice touch, with the last lines being film classics.
So, yes, there is a contrived element to this movie; yes, it pulls strings on the audience; yes, the ending is a bit schmaltzy. But, yes, this is a wonderful movie and deserves to be telecast each holiday season. A genuine classic!
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