Scrooge
Now! The story that has brought joy to millions! A new screen triumph!One of the world's most loved character actors, Alastair Sim, in a masterful portrayal of one of the world's best loved characters, Scrooge!
The Holiday Picture of All Time! Charles Dickens' Joyous Classic!
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Miserly Ebenezer Scrooge learns the error of his ways through the intervention of the ghost of his former partner and of three spirits in this faithful adaptation of the Dickens classic.
Stingy old Ebenezer Scrooge is known as the meanest man in London. He overworks and underpays his humble clerk, Bob Cratchit, whose little son, Tiny Tim, is crippled and may soon die. He also has nothing to do with his nephew, Fred, because his birth cost the life of his beloved sister. On Christmas Eve, Scrooge has a haunting nightmare. He is visited by three ghosts and is given one last chance to change his ways and save himself from the grim fate that befell his business partner, Jacob Marley.
Ebenezer Scrooge is a business man who thinks only of making money. For him Christmas is, in his own words, a humbug. It has been seven years since his friend and partner, Jacob Marley, died and on Christmas Eve Marley’s ghost tells him he is to be visited during the night by three spirits. The first is the Ghost of Christmas Past who re-visits some of the main events in Scrooge’s life to date, including his unhappy childhood, his happy apprenticeship to Mr. Fezziwig who cared for his employees, and the end of his engagement to a pretty young woman due to growing love of money. The Ghost of Christmas Present shows him how joyously is nephew Fred and his clerk Bob Cratchit celebrate Christmas with those they love. The Ghost of Christmas Yet To Come shows him what he will leave behind after he is gone. Scrooge awakens on Christmas morning, a new man intent on doing good and celebrating the season with all of those around him.
Director
Brian Desmond Hurst
Writer
Charles Dickens, Noel Langley
Producer
Brian Desmond Hurst as producer (as Brian Desmond-Hurst), Stanley Haynes as associate producer (uncredited)
Casting
Alastair Sim as Ebenezer Scrooge, Kathleen Harrison as Mrs. Dilber, Mervyn Johns as Bob Cratchit, Hermione Baddeley as Mrs. Cratchit, Michael Hordern as Jacob Marley, George Cole as Young Ebenezer Scrooge, John Charlesworth as Peter Cratchit, Francis De Wolff as Spirit of Christmas Present (as Francis de Wolff), Rona Anderson as Alice, Carol Marsh as Fan Scrooge, Brian Worth as Fred, Miles Malleson as Old Joe, Ernest Thesiger as The Undertaker, Glyn Dearman as Tiny Tim, Michael Dolan as Spirit of Christmas Past, Olga Edwardes as Fred's Wife, Roddy Hughes as Fezziwig, Hattie Jacques as Mrs. Fezziwig, Eleanor Summerfield as Miss Flora, Louise Hampton as Laundress, C. Konarski as Spirit of Christmas Yet To Come, Eliot Makeham as Mr. Snedrig, Peter Bull as First Businessman, Narrator, Douglas Muir as Second Businessman, Noel Howlett as First Collector, Fred Johnson as Second Collector, Henry Hewitt as Mr. Rosehed, Hugh Dempster as Mr. Groper, David Hannaford as , Maire O'Neill as Alice's Patient, Richard Pearson as Mr. Tupper, Patrick Macnee as Young Jacob Marley (as Patrick MacNee), Clifford Mollison as Samuel Wilkins, Jack Warner as Mr. Jorkin, Vi Kaley as Old Lady Sitting By Stove At The Charity Hospital (uncredited), Tony Wager as Fezziwig's Lad (uncredited)
