I don""t understand him.I never have.Aron I""ve understood since he was a child."It was no surprise, then, that the embittered Cal strongly believed that he was the unfavored son of his stiff, self-righteous father - who biasedly doted on Aron.Later in he film, Klaatu mentioned the distance traveled - from 250 million miles away - placing his home planet much closer than thought - somewhere between Mars and Jupiter in Earth""s solar system, presumably Mars.Smith Goes to Washington (1939)(with co-star Jean Arthur!),Gone With the Wind (1939), andThe Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939)." In the film""s most touching single moment, Kringle kind-heartedly and reassuringly spoke to the non-English-speaking, frightened WWII immigrant-refugee Dutch girl/orphan (Ida McGuire) in her own native language (and performed a duet of a traditional Dutch carole "Sinterklaas Kapoentje" with her).