Top billed cast

1. 

   Maureen O'Hara

   Doris Walker

2. 

   John Payne

   Fred Gailey

3. 

   Edmund Gwenn

   Kris Kringle

4. 

   Gene Lockhart

   Judge Harper

5. 

   Natalie Wood

   Susan Walker

6. 

   Porter Hall

   Granville Sawyer

7. 

   William Frawley

   Charlie Halloran

8. 

   Jerome Cowan

   Thomas Mara

9. 

   Philip Tonge

   Julian Shellhammer

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Reviews

A review by Peter McGinn

Written by Peter McGinn on 2021-12-26

This is one of the classic holiday pics I will watch every year if it is available to me (Oh no; he said “holiday” instead of Christmas. Blasphemy!) So I will neither pick it apart nor praise it to the heavens. The story writing is strong and the ensemble cast do a good job. The fact that it has been redone so many times speaks for itself. I won’t even try to compare it to the other versions. Instead, as I read in the Pearls Before Swine comic strip, “The floot-floot did a boom-boom on the jim-jam.” (Another way of saying “It is what it is.”)

Recommendations

1. Noelle65%
2. The Santa Clause65%
3. Elf66%
4. Miracle on 34th Street67%
5. Jingle All the Way60%
6. The Best Christmas Pageant Ever68%
7. Arthur Christmas67%
8. Home Alone 2: Lost in New York67%
9. Candy Cane Lane59%
10. Merry Christmas, Drake & Josh73%
11. How the Grinch Stole Christmas67%
12. Almost Christmas60%
13. Tully67%
14. Good Luck Charlie, It's Christmas!66%
15. Snoopy Presents: For Auld Lang Syne72%
16. Christmas with the Kranks61%
17. Beethoven's Christmas Adventure60%
18. Free Birds58%
19. I'll Be Home for Christmas59%
20. Merry Little Batman66%

Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$630,000.00

Revenue
$2,700,000.00

Keywords

• new york city
• court
• judge
• parent child relationship
• holiday
• department store
• santa claus
• thanksgiving
• psychologist
• lawyer
• little girl
• black and white
• single mother
• district attorney
• skepticism
• holiday season
• commercialism
• christmas
• loss of faith
• mother daughter relationship
• imagination