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Scrooge (released as A Christmas Carol in the United States) is a 1951 British Christmas fantasy drama film and an adaptation of Charles Dickens's A Christma...
Dec 24, 2023 · Directed by Brian Desmond Hurst, this black-and-white cinematic masterpiece captures the essence of the original story and remains a beloved hol ...more. "Mr. Scrooge - A Christmas Carol" is a...
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Nov 26, 2022 · Original televised B&W 1951 version of Scrooge with Alastair Sim. This perfectly imperfect edition was DVD recorded off the air (with a snowy roof top antenn...
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Film critics generally hail Sim's performance. He was 51 at the time he took on the part of Scrooge, and was better known for his comedic roles. Sim "underplays it nicely. He's sort of this reserved, crotchety old man, and somehow he's more scary in his reserve than he would be if he went over the top," said writer Gina Dalfonzo, who is also editor...
Journalist Colin Fleming, who is writing a book on Hurst's film, said the movie combines different visual styles, including realism, film noir and German expressionism. Fleming says the result is an effective horror movie. For example, Fleming said the visit by Scrooge's former business partner Jacob Marley, now a tortured and wailing spirit played...
Most of the cast of this holiday favourite is gone now — but not Teresa Cozens-Hardy. Fans of the film may remember "Fred's maid," the character who, with a nod and a smile, encouraged the apprehensive miser near the end of the movie to walk through the doors of his nephew's home and continue on his path of redemption. Cozens-Hardy was 20 at the ti...
Dec 20, 2013 · Director Brian Desmond Hurst’s 1951 seasonal delight Scrooge [A Christmas Carol] is the simply best movie version of the Charles Dickens classic story A Christmas Carol. It showcases a perfectly cast Alastair Sim, who gives a marvellous, bravura performance as the old miserly skinflint Ebenezer Scrooge, turning from old meanie to new nicie ...
A Christmas Carol: Directed by Brian Desmond Hurst. With Alastair Sim, Kathleen Harrison, Mervyn Johns, Hermione Baddeley. Ebenezer Scrooge, a curmudgeonly, miserly businessman, has no time for sentimentality and largely views Christmas as a waste of time.
Scrooge (released as A Christmas Carol in the United States) is a 1951 British Christmas fantasy drama film and an adaptation of Charles Dickens 's A Christmas Carol (1843). It stars Alastair Sim as Ebenezer Scrooge, and was produced and directed by Brian Desmond Hurst, with a screenplay by Noel Langley.
