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Scrooge

1951 · 1h 26m · Fantasy · Drama

TMDB 7.4/10 (376 votes)

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.

Directed by Brian Desmond Hurst

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Scrooge

1951 · 1h 26m · Fantasy · Drama

TMDB 7.4/10 (376 votes)

Directed by Brian Desmond Hurst

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Not who you're looking for? Others named Scrooge: 1970 film by Ronald Neame · musical · 1913 film by Leedham Bantock · 1935 film directed by Henry Edwards

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Alastair Simas Ebenezer Scrooge

Mervyn Johnsas Bob Cratchit

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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. The film also features Kathleen Harrison as Mrs. Dilber, Scrooge's charwoman. George Cole stars as the younger Scrooge, Hermione Baddeley as Mrs. Cratchit, Mervyn Johns as Bob Cratchit, Clifford Mollison as Samuel Wilkins, a debtor; Jack Warner as Mr. Jorkin, a role created for the film; Ernest Thesiger as Jacob Marley's undertaker; and Patrick Macnee as the younger Jacob Marley. Michael Hordern plays Jacob Marley's ghost, as well as the older Jacob Marley. Peter Bull serves as narrator, by reading portions of Charles Dickens' words at the beginning and end of the film; he also appears on-screen as one of the businessmen talking with Scrooge (at the beginning of the film) and discussing Scrooge's funeral (as witnessed by Scrooge with the Ghost of Christmas Yet-to-Come). Plot

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Notable quotes

“And were it not that they are loath to lay out money on a rope, they would be hanged forthwith, and sometimes die to save charges.”
— Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part I, Section II. Memb. 3. Subsec. 12.
“A mere madness, to live like a wretch, and die rich.”
— Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part I, Section II. Memb. 3. Subsec. 13.
“Truly, misers fare not to heavenly realms; nor, indeed, do fools praise generosity. But the wise man rejoices in giving, and by that alone does he become happy hereafter.”
— Dhammapada 177
“Quærit, et inventis miser abstinet, ac timet uti.”
— The miser acquires, yet fears to use his gains.
“If I knew a miser, who gave up every kind of comfortable living, all the pleasure of doing good to others, all the esteem of his fellow-citizens, and the joys of benevolent friendship, for the sake of accumulating wealth, Poor man, said I, you pay too much for your whistle.”
— Benjamin Franklin, The Whistle.
“Tam deest avaro quod habet, quam quod non habet.”
— The miser is as much in want of what he has, as of what he has not.

Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.

Notable quotes

“And were it not that they are loath to lay out money on a rope, they would be hanged forthwith, and sometimes die to save charges.”
— Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part I, Section II. Memb. 3. Subsec. 12.
“A mere madness, to live like a wretch, and die rich.”
— Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part I, Section II. Memb. 3. Subsec. 13.
“Truly, misers fare not to heavenly realms; nor, indeed, do fools praise generosity. But the wise man rejoices in giving, and by that alone does he become happy hereafter.”
— Dhammapada 177
“Quærit, et inventis miser abstinet, ac timet uti.”
— The miser acquires, yet fears to use his gains.
“If I knew a miser, who gave up every kind of comfortable living, all the pleasure of doing good to others, all the esteem of his fellow-citizens, and the joys of benevolent friendship, for the sake of accumulating wealth, Poor man, said I, you pay too much for your whistle.”
— Benjamin Franklin, The Whistle.
“Tam deest avaro quod habet, quam quod non habet.”
— The miser is as much in want of what he has, as of what he has not.

Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.

Overview

From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).