MIRACLE ON 34TH STREET (RR)

US Release date: 4 June 1947 (no information on reissue)

First Melbourne Saturday Suburban:  16 December 1950

Genre: Family 

Country: USA

Running time: 97 minutes

Director: George Seaton

Cast: Edmund Gwenn, Maureen O’Hara, John Payne 

Australian Distributor: 20th Century Fox

Melbourne Premiere Venue: No city release for reissue. Originally screened at Hoyts’ Capitol theatre for three weeks from 21 November 1947.

Suburban Release Type: Hoyts Camberwell Broadway EX-1

Rankings

		Rank
EF Points	30	322
EF PPE	5.00	95
Metres Travelled	59,914	342
Average MT	9,986	225
Engagements	6	339
Slots	7	341
Weeks	1	284
Weeks as % of engagements	16.67%	156
Saturdays	2	324
Sats as % of engagements	33.33%	188
Tuesdays	3	299
Tues as % of engagements	50.00%	96
First billed	6	182
Second billed	0	293*
Feature only	0	34*

Hoyts ratios

Engagements weeks 1-10	6
Ratio	100.00%
Difference to chain ratio	7.64%
Eng weeks 11-26	0
Ratio	0.00%
Difference to chain ratio	-5.39%
Eng weeks 27-52	0
Ratio	0.00%
Difference to chain ratio	-2.24%
Hoyts eng	5
Ratio	83.33%
Difference to chain ratio	17.55%
Independent eng	0
Ratio	0.00%
Difference to chain ratio	-11.50%
Suburban eng	1
Ratio	16.67%
Difference to chain ratio	-6.05%

Notes: 1947 family favourite was dusted off for six suburban screenings in the lead up to Christmas. Low points accumulation but was top billed on each occasion. Gun Smugglers was its support on half of the occasions.

Miracle on 34th Street engagements

SUBURB	VENUE	CHAIN	DATE	W	D	B	CO-FEATURE
Camberwell	Broadway	Hoyts	16/12/1950	1	T	1	Figthing Man of the Plains
Footscray	Barkly	Hoyts	23/12/1950	2	S	1	Gun Smugglers
Prahran	Empress	Hoyts	23/12/1950	2	S	1	Gun Smugglers
St. Kilda	Memorial	Hoyts	23/12/1950	2	W	1	Gun Smugglers
Malvern	Victory	Hoyts	30/12/1950	3	T	1	Yes Sir! That’s my Baby
Balwyn	Balwyn	Suburban	13/01/1951	5	T	1	Fighting Back