Alastair Sim
Ebenezer Scrooge
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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.
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- Drama, Family, Fantasy
- Brian Desmond Hurst
- 1951-12-02
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.
Dec 10, 2018 · A famous adaptation of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol. Starring Alistair Simm; Produced and directed by Brian Desmond Hurst; screenplay by Noel Langley.
- 87 min
- 66K
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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...
Alastair Sim, a British actor known for his comedic roles, plays the miserly Scrooge in the 1951 adaptation of Dickens's A Christmas Carol. The film, directed by Brian Desmond Hurst, is praised for its atmospheric and horror elements, and is considered the gold standard of the genre.
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Alastair George Bell Sim, CBE (9 October 1900 – 19 August 1976) was a Scottish character actor who began his theatrical career at the age of thirty and quickly became established as a popular West End performer, remaining so until his death in 1976.
Alastair Sim was a Scottish actor who starred in many British films and TV shows, including A Christmas Carol (1951) as Ebenezer Scrooge. He also directed and wrote some works, and was the Rector of Edinburgh University from 1948 to 1951.
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IMDb provides a comprehensive list of quotes, photos and trivia from the 1951 film adaptation of A Christmas Carol, starring Alastair Sim as the miserly Scrooge. See how Scrooge interacts with the spirits, his nephew, his clerk and his former partner.
