Three ghosts visit a miser during the holidays to teach him the errors of his ways in the original 1951 adaptation of the Charles Dickens classic.

Can you have Christmas without our favorite holiday classic? Humbug! Fully Restored and re-mastered from the original 35mm negative recovered in England, A CHRISTMAS CAROL (1951) is a marvelous, nostalgic piece adapted from the timeless tale by Charles Dickens. As stated by film critic Rick Marin of The New York Times, while 'most adapters make the mistake of casting Scrooge as a heavy,' this version directed by Brian Desmond Hurst and adapted by Noel Langley, makes 'Ebenezer Scrooge (Alastair Sim) a good man gone bad, not a bad man who miraculously turns good.' Black & White Version.

Media

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Bonus Materials

• INTRODUCTION BY LEONARD MALTIN
• “DEAD TO BEGIN WITH: The Darker Side of a Classic”- Featuring British film historian 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)

 

Cast & Crew

Actors:

•        Alastair Sim
•        Kathleen Harrison
•       Mervyn Johns
•        Hermione Baddeley
•       Michael Hordern
•       George Cole
•       John Charlesworth

Director: Brian Desmond Hurst

Additional Details

Label: Kit Parker Films

Genre: Family

Language: English

Run Time: 86 mins

Region: 0

Release Date: 11/12/24

UPC: 089859065828