you’re telling me that you’ll tell your child there’s no santa claus but you’ll let her hang out with the adult man neighbor on her own? 1947 was absurd.
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Die uralte Frage nach dem Weihnachtsmann. Kris Kringle, Kaufhaus-Weihnachtsmann, behauptet vor Gericht, er sei tatsächlich der Alte vom Nordpol. Seiner Chefin jedoch gefällt das gar nicht.
Heute keine Spielzeiten für Miracle on 34th Street in Los Angeles.
you’re telling me that you’ll tell your child there’s no santa claus but you’ll let her hang out with the adult man neighbor on her own? 1947 was absurd.
I, too, refuse to believe in Santa until he buys me a house. Ball's on his court now.
What’s lovely about this movie is there is no miracle on 34th Street — at least not an overt one (unless you count Macy’s encouraging its customers to shop at other department stores if they don’t stock the item they want). Kris Kringle may be Santa Claus; nothing in the film rules that out. But by design, nothing conclusively proves he is the real Santa either. He might just be a delusional old man. Even the last shot, meant to suggest a divine presence, can be easily explained without any supernatural shenanigans — it’s basically just a Rorschach test for the audience.So what do you believe? It’s easy to believe in magic and miracles when a reindeer flies right in front of you, as in so many lesser Christmas films. Faith demands belief in something you cannot see. So the real miracle, if this movie does its job, happens in the viewer’s heart.
An older man working as a department store Santa Claus claims to be the real Kris Kringle, leading to a trial that questions both his sanity and his true identity. Find showtimes on Mood.
George Seaton directed this 1947 film, which remains a celebrated staple of American holiday cinema.
The film won three Academy Awards, including Best Actor in a Supporting Role for Edmund Gwenn and Best Writing, Screenplay.