Ebenezer Scrooge, a curmudgeonly, miserly businessman, has no time for sentimentality and largely views Christmas as a waste of time. However, this Christmas Eve, he will be visited by three spirits who will show him the error of his ways...
Scrooge (released as A Christmas Carol in the United States) is a 1951 British Christmas fantasy drama film and an adaptation of Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol (1843). It stars Alastair Sim as Ebenezer Scrooge, and was produced and directed by Brian Desmond Hurst, with a screenplay by Noel Langley. It also features Michael Hordern, Kathleen Harrison, George Cole, Hermione Baddeley, Mervyn Johns, Clifford Mollison, Jack Warner, Ernest Thesiger and Patrick Macnee. Peter Bull narrates portions of Charles Dickens's words at the beginning and end of the film, and appears on-screen as a businessman...
Directed by Brian Desmond Hurst
Writing Credits
Charles Dickens ... (adapted from "A Christmas Carol")
Noel Langley ... (adaptation)
Noel Langley ... (screenplay)
Musical score composed by Richard Addinsell
Cast
Alastair Sim as Ebenezer Scrooge
Kathleen Harrison as Mrs. Dilber, Charwoman
Mervyn Johns as Bob Cratchit
Hermione Baddeley as Mrs. Cratchit
Michael Hordern as Jacob Marley's Ghost
George Cole as Young Ebenezer Scrooge
Patrick Macnee as the Young Jacob Marley
Glyn Dearman as Tiny Tim
John Charlesworth as Peter Cratchit
Michael J. Dolan as the Ghost of Christmas Past
Francis de Wolff as the Ghost of Christmas Present
Czesław Konarski as the Ghost of Christmas Yet-to-Come
Rona Anderson as Alice, Scrooge's past fiancée
Carol Marsh as Fan "Fanny" Scrooge
Jack Warner as Mr. Jorkin, Scrooge's second employer
Roddy Hughes as Mr. Fezziwig, Scrooge's first employer
Brian Worth as Fred, Scrooge's nephew
Olga Edwardes as Fred's wife
Miles Malleson as Old Joe
Ernest Thesiger as Mr. Stretch (the undertaker)
Louise Hampton as the Laundress
Peter Bull as First Businessman at exchange (also Narrator)
Douglas Muir as Second Businessman at exchange
Noel Howlett as First Collector for people in need
Fred Johnson as Second Collector for people in need
Eliot Makeham as Mr. Snedrig
Henry Hewitt as Mr. Rosebed
Hugh Dempster as Mr. Groper
Eleanor Summerfield as Miss Flora, Fred's party guest
Richard Pearson as Mr. Tupper, Fred's party guest
Clifford Mollison as Samuel Wilkins, Scrooge's poor client
Hattie Jacques as Mrs. Fezziwig
Teresa Derrington as Fred's Maid
David Hannaford as Boy buying prize turkey
Catherine Leach as Belinda Cratchit
Moiya Kelly as Martha Cratchit
Luanne Kemp as Mary Cratchit
Maire O'Neill as older Alice at the Charity Hospital
Anthony Wager as Mr. Fezziwig's Lad
Derek Stephens as a Dancer at Fezziwig's
Vi Kaley as Old Lady sitting by stove at the Charity Hospital
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