CHRISTMAS CAROL, A - COLOUR

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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 Ebenezer Scrooge in this beloved version of the Charles Dickens story, A Christmas Carol.; ; Ebenezer Scrooge (Alastair Sim) contentedly meanders through his life as a cruel miser until one fateful 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, dreary 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 novel.
• 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, Charles Dickens, Noel Langley
• Director: Brian Desmond Hurst
• Runtime: 1:26
• Company: George Minter Productions, Renown Film Productions, Morningstar Entertainment
• Media Format: Movie