A Christmas Carol (DVD)

Directed by Clive Donner Screenplay by Roger O. Hirson Based on a story by Charles Dickens published in 1843 Drama / Fantasy Released November 1984 (UK) MAIN CAST: George C. Scott as Ebenezer Scrooge Frank Finlay as Jacob Marley's Ghost David Warner as Bob Cratchit Susannah York as Mrs. Cratchit Anthony Walters as Tiny Tim The story begins with a glimpse into the wretched life of miserly Ebenezer Scrooge as he goes about his daily activities on Christmas Eve. After a perfunctory and cold discussion with his nephew, who has come to visit him at his office in order to invite him to a small fete ...  Read the complete review

Christmas wouldn’t be the same without a version of Dicken’s ‘Christmas Carol’ appearing on screen. Along with ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ and ‘Miracle on 34th Street’ its essential viewing over the holidays, giving you a warm feeling inside which makes you want to hug all your friends and relatives and draw all your money out of the nearest cash point and distribute it to the poor and needy. But which version is the best? Over the years we’ve had the classical scrooges, comical scrooges, musical scrooges, Muppet scrooges and Donald Duck. Even Mr. Magoo, Bill Murray and Blackadder got in on the act. ...  Read the complete review

My favourite Christmas movie has to be “A Christmas Carol”, starring Alistair Sim as Ebeneezer Scrooge. There are other movie versions of this classic novel however, I believe this one, more than any other, captures the atmosphere and pathos that Dickens originally intended. It is a moral tale, containing many 'home truths'. It is a story of people and poverty which will touch the heart. Most importantly, it is a great moral booster as, after all the terrible events that Ebeneezer has to suffer, there is a happy ending. ( Thinks, “The happy ending occurs, only because ...  Read the complete review

This has to be my favourite Christmas movie of all time. I probably shouldn't admit it but it is. I know it's the old story of the not very nice person becoming the nicest person alive, but this movie tells it best. I watch this film every year without doubt and I never get bored with scrooge. Obviously he is the main and best charachter in the film. The film main focus is the christams theme of "goodwill to all men" and films nowadays do not do this justice. Even now when I watch this it reminds me of my childhood Christmas's and thats probably why I still enjoy it. You know how it's going to end but it's always ...  Read the complete review

In this adaptation of the classic novel by Charles Dickens, Alastair Sim stars as Ebenezer Scrooge - the miser who learns who mean he has been when he is subjected to visions of ghosts. However, rather than portraying Scrooge as an en evil man, here we see an old man who is put through many emotions - he is heartless, but he is also frightened, and at the end, when he has changed his ways, he is positively jubilant, and the viewer believes in this characterisation throughout. It is down to Sim's skill that this is so. The story has been turned into film again and again, with perhaps the worst version being SCROOGED, starring Bill Murray, but this ...  Read the complete review