As the calendar creeps quickly towards Christmas Day on the 25th of December, were counting down the days with a special advent calendar of festive films, revealing a set of rare images for each chosen film to surprise and delight film fans. Heralded as one of the great classic Christmas films along with the decidedly less cheerful It's A Wonderful Life, Miracle On 34th Street can boast the auspicious achievement of having inspired a remake that is almost as good as the original, and which is certainly as important to a whole new generation as the original was when it was first released in 1947. Annual lists dedicated to the best screen Santas invariably include Edmund Gwenn, and that has an awful lot to do with the demands of the story, which put the iconic character through trials and tribulations ordinarily reserved for far more human, and less immortal figures like George Bailey. That story is as gripping as it is heart-warming, and it is thanks to the dynamics in both casts that both the 1947 and 1994 versions are so beloved. Because choosing which is the better film out of the original and the remake is a pointless endeavour, we're looking at both films for today's Advent Calendar movie, though with decidedly more focus on the original. So here we go with 10 awesome Miracle On 34th Street images you've never seen...
10. The X-Mas-Orcist
We start with an official poster from the 1994 remake, starring Mara Wilson and Richard Attenborough as Kris Kringle, which bears uncanny resemblance to the imagery of the Exorcist's official posters.