Miracle on 34th Street Edmund Gwenn 2004 New DVD Top-quality Free UK shipping

George Seaton writes and directs this classic drama starring Edmund Gwenn and Maureen O’Hara. Doris Walker (O’Hara), an executive at Macy’s department store, believes in taking a common-sense approach to life and is consequently raising her daughter Susan (Natalie Wood) not to believe in Santa Claus. This year however, the convictions of both mother and child are challenged when a kindly old man (Gwenn) is hired as the store Santa and insists that he is in fact the real thing. No one believes him, some even think he’s insane, but he is willing to go to court to prove his case. The film won two Academy Awards for Best Supporting Actor (Gwenn) and Best Screenplay (Seaton).
The original 1947 version of the Valentine Davies story Miracle on 34th Street follows the misadventures of Kris Kringle (Edmund Gwenn) as he gets a job playing Santa Claus at Macy’s department store in New York City. Natalie Wood is the little girl who tells him she doesn’t believe in Santa, and Maureen O’Hara and John Payne are the couple who help Kris through a trial in which he must prove he’s the jolly fellow from the North Pole. A perennial Christmas favorite, this is one of those movies that gets under your skin and must be revisited every so often.