CHRISTMAS CAROL, A - BLACK & WHITE

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• Release Year: 1951
• Genre: Christmas, Drama, Family, Fantasy
• Plot: Alastair Sim's tour-de-force performance is the definitive portrayal of Ebenizer Scrooge in this beloved version of the Charles Dickens story, A Christmas Carol.; ; Ebeneezer Scrooge contentedly meanders through his life as a cruel miser until one faitful Christmas Eve when he is visited by three ghosts. the spirits show him how his behavior over the years has made him a lonely, bitter man, and how his heart has grown colder. Using events from Scrooge's idealistic past, dreay present and dismal future, the apparitions try their best to melt his steely soul. Tightfisted Ebenezer Scrooge learns the error of his ways through the intervention of the ghost of his former partner and of the three spirits and, just in time for the holidays, manages to make everyone's lives a little brighter, his included!; ; Critics widely consider this 1951 production to be the best film version of Charles Dickens' cherished nove.
• Cast: Alastair Sim, Kathleen Harrison, Mervyn Johns, Hermione Baddeley, Michael Hordern, George Cole, John Charlesworth, Francis De Wolff, Rona Anderson, Carol Marsh, Brian Worth, Miles Malleson, Ernest Thesiger, Glyn Dearman, Michael Dolan, Olga Edwardes, Roddy Hughes, Hattie Jacques, Eleanor Summerfield, Louise Hampton, C. Konarski, Eliot Makeham, Peter Bull, Douglas Muir, Noel Howlett, Fred Johnson, Henry Hewitt, Hugh Dempster, Maire O'Neill, Richard Pearson, Patrick MacNee, Clifford Mollison, Jack Warner, Vi Kaley, Tony Wager, Brian Desmond Hurst
• Director: Brian Desmond Hurst
• Runtime: 1:26
• Company: George Minter Productions, Morining Star Entertainment
• Media Format: movie