A Christmas Carol
Season's Greedings
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Scrooge (Colorized)
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A Christmas Carol (2017)
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A Christmas Carol
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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 26 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: October 16, 2012
- Originally Released: 1951
- Label: VCI Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Alastair Sim, Kathleen Harrison & Jack Warner | |
Performer: | Hermione Baddeley | |
Directed by | Brian Desmond Hurst | |
Edited by | Clive Donner | |
Screenwriting by | Noel Langley | |
Composition by | Richard Addinsell | |
Story by | Charles Dickens | |
Produced by | George Minter | |
Director of Photography: | C. Pennington-Richards |
Entertainment Reviews:
Other Christmas Carols need not apply.
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Entertainment Weekly
A sturdy 1951 British mounting of the Dickens tale, with Alastair Sim contributing a definitive Scrooge.
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Chicago Reader
Rating: 4/5 --
Inarguably the definitive and best adaptation of Charles Dickens' seminal Christmas fable.
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Patrick Nabarro
Rating: 4/5 --
Watching most versions, the viewer is tempted to punch happy Scrooge. Here we yearn to share a sherry with the newly jolly rogue.
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Irish Times
Rating: 4/5 --
All in all, a beguiling festive treat.
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BBC.com
Though Dickens' frank sentimentality calls for broad treatment, Brian Desmond Hurst's direction is too often heavy as well.
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TIME Magazine
Rating: 4/5 --
This faithful adaptation of Dickens' A Christmas Carol is a rare beast indeed, a genuinely affecting melodrama.
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Total Film
Product Description:
Ebeneezer 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 has degenerated over the years as his heart has become colder. Using events from Scrooge's idealistic past, dreary present, and dismal future, the apparitions try their best to melt his steely soul. Will Scrooge see the error of his ways and learn the true meaning of Christmas' Check out this hailed classic and find out! Many critics widely consider this the definitive film version of Charles Dickens' cherished novel.
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Product Info
- Sales Rank: 115,969
- UPC: 089859885129
- Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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