From: ahk@chinet.com   
      
   Adam H. Kerman  wrote:   
      
   >I enjoy Miracle on 34th Street (1947) and make it a holiday tradition to   
   >watch near Thanksgiving. This year, nothing I subscribe to included it,   
   >so I had to use streaming. Two streaming services with commercials,   
   >FaveawsomeTV and Pluto had it according to the index I checked using the   
   >Comcast X1 box, but it was only available on Pluto. Pluto was especially   
   >obnoxious with commercials every 10 minutes, and then wouldn't play the   
   >famous courtroom scenes. I got all the setup with Maureen O'Hara and   
   >Edmund Gwen and Natalie Wood, but none of the payoff with Gwen and John   
   >Payne, and completely missed the heroism of the Post Office Department   
   >which was quite capable of deliving mail in town the same day as routine   
   >practice.   
      
   >I hate streaming.   
      
   Finally! The two discs, BluRay and DVD package, showed up at the   
   library. I checked my account a week ago; the system had mysteriously   
   cancelled my request.   
      
   I had ordered two, hoping somthing would be playable. The BluRay was the   
   Richard Attenborough remake from 1994 which is not as charming. I saw   
   this in theater. I remember being impressed with Mara Wilson as Susan   
   but not really liking much else.   
      
   There were two DVDs in the package. The first was the colorized version;   
   horrors. I watched the original with my mother. It's as delightful as   
   ever. Then we noticed that there was commentary by Maureen O'Hara. Now,   
   I think it was excerpted from an interview or something because she   
   wasn't watching the movie. She had a few comments specific to her fellow   
   actors and specific comments about making this movie but most of her   
   comments were general about making movies. There were plenty of gaps.   
   She insisted that every one of her movies found a large audience.   
      
   I didn't realize the timing. Due to outbreak of war, when production on   
   Hunchback ended, she was unable to return to Ireland. She and Charles   
   Laughton were unable to make a scheduled movie. I hadn't realized she   
   wasn't intending to stay in Hollywood at that point.   
      
   I now think the letter Susan wrote that Doris added a note to was   
   delivered overnight, if there was somehow just enough time to get to the   
   post office. As it was addressed to the courthouse and that was the last   
   day of trial with an afternoon hearing, Doris must have mde the deadline.   
      
   The DVD froze at a couple of points, but rewinding cleared things up.   
      
   We might watch the remake.   
      
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