Charles Dickens' Joyous Holliday Classic!
Ebenezer Scrooge malcontentedly shuffles through life as a cruel, miserly businessman, until he is visited by three spirits on Christmas Eve who show him how his unhappy childhood and adult behavior has left him a selfish, lonely old man.
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- resolvedopen-ended
- classical in formformally daring
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- contemporarynostalgic
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Cast
- Alastair SimEbenezer Scrooge
- Mervyn JohnsBob Cratchit
- Glyn DearmanTiny Tim Cratchit
- George ColeYoung Ebenezer Scrooge
- Brian WorthFred Scrooge
- Michael HordernJacob Marley
- Kathleen HarrisonMrs. Dilber
- Rona AndersonAlice
- Jack WarnerJorkins
- Michael DolanSpirit of Christmas Past
Crew
- Brian Desmond HurstDirector
- Noel LangleyScreenplay
- Charles DickensNovel
- C.M. Pennington-RichardsDirector of Photography
- Richard AddinsellOriginal Music Composer
- Clive DonnerEditor
- Brian Desmond HurstProducer
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