But then he killed both pilots, as the plane lost cabin pressure when a bullet pierced the windshield, and visibility was near zero.Sure.That""s the place." He picks a place no one will guess.[Offscreen, the money is stashed inside he body of Pearl""s doll.] Then, because he believes that his wife doesn""t have "common sense" and won""t keep secret the hiding place of the money, he entrusts the knowledge to John.The film was remade twice on television in 1955 and 1973 (with Thomas Mitchell and Sebastian Cabot respectively as Kringle) and memorably in a John Hughes-produced 1994 remake directed by Les Mayfield, with Richard Attenborough as Kringle, co-starring Elizabeth Perkins, Dylan McDermott and Mara Wilson.They knocked each other through various lower floor levels of the building as their colossal battle continued.