Film· 1951· Drama

Scrooge (A Christmas Carol)

by Brian Desmond Hurst

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A Christmas Carol

Book · 1843

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The Alastair Sim version, and the one most often named as the closest to Dickens in tone: it keeps the structure of the three visitations and gives the Christmas Past section far more room than the later adaptations do. Wikidata records it as a derivative work of the novella.

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Scrooge (A Christmas Carol)

Ebenezer Scrooge, a curmudgeonly, miserly businessman, has no time for sentimentality and largely views Christmas as a waste of time. However, this Christmas Eve, he will be visited by three spirits who will show him the error of his ways. It stars Alastair Sim as Ebenezer Scrooge, and was produced and directed by Brian Desmond Hurst, with a screenplay by Noel Langley. It also features Michael Hordern, Kathleen Harrison, George Cole, Hermione Baddeley, Mervyn Johns, Clifford Mollison, Jack Warner, Ernest Thesiger, and Patrick Macnee. Peter Bull narrates portions of Charles Dickens's words at the beginning and end of the film, and appears on-screen as a businessman.