Miracle on 34th Street (1994)

Robert Prosky: Judge Harper

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• Judge Henry Harper : Mr. Collins, would you like to cross examine

  [quietly chuckles] 

  Judge Henry Harper : your wife?

• Judge Henry Harper : Merry christmas! I'm not going to be needing that.The young lady who just approached the bench presented me with this christmas card and this. It's a 1$ bill. It's going to be returned to her shortly, but by presenting me with this bill, she reminded me that it's issued by the treasury of the United States of America. And it's backed by the government, and the people, of the United States of America. Upon inspection of the article, you will see the words, "in God we trust." We're not here to prove that God exists, but we are here to prove that a being just as invisible and yet just as present exists. Federal government puts its trust in God. It does so on faith and faith alone. It's the will of the people that guides the government. And it is and was their collective faith in a greater being that gave and gives cause to this bill's inscription. Now, if the government of the United States can issue it's currency bearing a declaration of trust in God without demanding physical evidence of the existence or the nonexistence of a greater being, then the state of New York, by a similar demonstration of the collective faith of its people, can accept and acknowledge that Santa Claus does exist, and he exists In the person of Kriss Kringle! Case dismissed.

• [first lines] 

  Grandson : Ask him.

  Judge Henry Harper : Shh.

  Grandson : Ask him.

  Judge Henry Harper : Shh!

  Grandson : Look at him, Grandpa. Ask him.

  Judge Henry Harper : Ryan, that's enough.

  [to the stranger before him] 

  Judge Henry Harper : Uh, I'm sorry. He, uh he thinks you're Santa Claus.

  [Kris Kringle and Judge Harper laugh] 

  Kris Kringle : [quietly to Harper's grandson]  I am.

  Kris Kringle : [to Harper]  Merry Christmas.

• Kris Kringle : Hi Judge, how is the grandson of yours?

  [Harper gets shocked] 

  Kris Kringle : The parade? He thought I looked like Santa Claus.

  Judge Henry Harper : Oh yeah.