Monday, December 22, 2008

Miracle on 34th street (1947) - Christmas movie from director George Seaton, starring Maureen O'Hara, Edmund Gwenn and John Payne

Rating 8.0/10
Runtime: 96 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: George Seaton
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0039628/

Cast

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

Description: 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 finds himself held at Bellevue where, in despair, he deliberately fails a mental examination to ensure his commitment. All seems lost until Doris' friend, Fred Gailey, reassure Kris of his worth and agrees to represent him in the fight to secure his release. To achieve that, Fred arranges a formal hearing in which he argues that Kris is sane because he is in fact Santa Claus.

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Download link (torrent file):

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ISnCZqTRU7fCbJNekK6mbzffdI5pUxOF


Video and audio information:

Video : 1.93 GB, 2861 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 658x480 (1.37:1), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 129
Audio : 441/55 MB (main/commentary), 640/80 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 6/2 channels, 0x55 = AC3/VORBIS, CBR/VBR


Subtitles (English closed captions embedded in a movie, to play them choose Subtitle=>Sub Track in VLC Player and separate English, Spanish, French, Portuguese-Brazilian, Turkish, Dutch, Italian) posters and screenshots included


Dual audio track information


This movie contains two audio tracks, one is original English, and the other is commentary by Maureen O'Hara. You can use VLC Player to easily choose between any of audio tracks (Audio => Audio track and switch to main audio track on Track 1, commentary on Track 2)

4 comments:

Sameer Anand said...

Thanks for the movie and Merry Christmas.

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Anonymous said...

thank you so much.. i was searching for this movie.. maybe you have goodbye mr. chips also, the 1969 version starring peter o'toole and petula clark..many thanks again.. more power to your awesome site.

Anonymous said...

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