A Christmas Carol (Blu-ray + DVD)

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Format: Blu-ray (2 Discs)

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Blu-ray Disc Features:

Number of Discs: 2
Rated: Not Rated
Run Time: 1 hours, 26 minutes
Video: Black & White
Released: October 16, 2012
Originally Released: 1951
Label: VCI Video
Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
Note: Introduction by Leonard Maltin

"Dead to begin with: the darker side of a classic" - featuring British film historial and culturalist Sir Christopher Frayling
"Scrooge by another name: distributing a Christmas carol" - featurette with US distributor, Richard Gordon
"The human blarney stone: life and films of Brian Desmond Hurst" with Allan Esler Smith, the great-great nephew and biographer of Hurst
"Alastair Sim version: too good to be shown only at Christmastime" - by Fred Guida, author of "A Christmas Carol and its Adaptations"
"Silent Dickens" - a collection of early examples of Dickens on film in HD (Scrooge - 1922 and Bleak House - 1922)
Bonus disc includes full length standard definition 'A Chrismas Carol' plus:
"Campbell Playhouse: a Christmas Carol" - original 1939 radio dramatization, narrataed by Orson Welles and starring Lionel Barrymore
"Bibliographic essay" by Fred Guida

Aspect Ratio: Full Frame - 1.37
Audio:

Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo - English
PCM Stereo - English
Subtitles - English, Spanish

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:

BBC.com

Jun 13, 2001

TIME Magazine

Dec 5, 2008

Entertainment Weekly

Dec 12, 2003

rachelsreviews.net

May 2, 2019

Radio Times

Dec 6, 2013

Total Film

Dec 6, 2013

Entertainment Weekly

Nov 27, 2008

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.

Plot Synopsis:

In this adaptation of the Charles Dickens' classic, "A Christmas Carol," a remake of the 1938 film, miser Ebenezer Scrooge learns the true meaning of Christmas and reforms his heartless and money-grubbing ways after being visited on Christmas Eve by four Ghosts: his old business partners Jacob and Marley, the Ghost of Christmas Past, the Ghost of Christmas Present, and the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come.

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Production Notes:

A remake of the 1938 film.
Additional cast: Olga Edwardes (Fred's Wife); Michael Dolan (The Spirit of Christmas Past); C. Konarski (Spirit of the Future); Noel Howlett (1st Collector); Fred Johnson (2nd Collector); and Douglas Muir (2nd Businessman).