News for
Edmund Gwenn More at IMDbPro »

1 article from 2009

14 August 2009 7:09 AM, PDT | MovieWeb | See recent MovieWeb news »

Just in time for the holiday season, Fox Home Entertainment is releasing both the classic 1947 and the updated 1994 editions of the hit Christmas film Miracle on 34th Street on Blu-ray this October 6th. Both films will be released separately on the same day, with a retail price of $34.99 Srp.

In the 1947 original, Edmund Gwenn plays Kris Kringle, a bearded old gent who is the living image of Santa Claus. Serving as a last-minute replacement for the drunken Santa who was to have led Macy's Thanksgiving Parade, Kringle is offered a job as a Macy's toy-department Santa. Supervisor Maureen O'Hara soon begins having second thoughts about hiring Kris: It's bad enough that he is laboring under the delusion that he's the genuine Saint Nick. But when he begins advising customers to shop elsewhere for toys that they can't find at Macy's, he's gone too far! Amazingly, Mr. Macy (Harry Antrim) considers »

1 article from 2009