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Genres:
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Fantasy /
Drama
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Release:
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Director:
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Brian Desmond Hurst
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Actors:
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Miles Malleson,
Alastair Sim,
Francis De Wolff,
Mervyn Johns,
Ernest Thesiger,
Kathleen Harrison,
Carol Marsh,
Rona Anderson,
Brian Worth,
Glyn Dearman,
Michael Dolan,
John Charlesworth,
Hermione Baddeley,
Michael Hordern,
George Cole
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Duration:
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87 min.
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Rating:
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(8.1/10)62.5
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Plot Summary:
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Stingy Ebenezer Scrooge learns the error of his ways through the intervention of the ghost of his prehistoric comrade and of three spirits in this faithful fitting of the Dickens classic.
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scrooge
a classic of british cinema.need i say more
God bless us, everyone
Alastair Sim is great as the penny-pinching, parsimonious bachelor, so great in fact that one almost warms to his blinkered view of the world and I rather resent Old Marley's ghostly warnings and the subsequent three spirits showing him the error of his ways. One thing, George Cole is extremely irritating as the young Scrooge, almost as irritating as Tiny Tim......But all is not lost as we have Sim's wonderful redemption scene at the end.
Scrooge
A stodgy adjusting of Charles Dickens' intrepid perennial that does not enough justice to its source solid. Bah! Humbug!
According to historians, Charles Dickens virtually invented modern Christmas when he published 'A Christmas Carol' in 1843. It's certainly inspired many festive films, of varying good and significance. Filmmakers participate in customised it by including songs, transposing locations and adding Muppets. Not later than , Scrooge plays a straight bat. The most impressive digression from Dickens is the title. It's a shame more liberties weren't enchanted: the results strength compel ought to been more pleasing.
The root plot is so familiar it hardly needs repeating: a bitter miser is visited by the ghosts of Christmas past, and tomorr...
Scrooge
Surprisingly, there isn't a film rendering of the Dickens novella which merits the imprimatur 'classic'. The Muppets...
Scrooge
Released in the US underwater Dickens's creative caption, A Christmas Carol, this is most the best screen version of the much-loved yuletide naval scuttlebutt. The everlastingly-dexterous Alastair Sim is impeccable as the tightwad who comes to assure the indiscretion of his ways through the promptings of the spirits of Christmas Background, Give and Prospective. Michael Hordern makes a glorious Jacob Marley and Mervyn Johns a unpretentious Bob Cratchit, while George Cole does sedately as the younger, carefree Scrooge. Beautifully designed by Ralph Brinton and directed with unexpected finesse by Brian Desmond Hurst, this is not to be missed.
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