Scrooge

About Scrooge

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.

Scrooge (1951) is a fantasy film directed by Brian Desmond Hurst. It runs 86 minutes and was released in November 1951.

Its themes are money, redemption, greed, and christmas eve. It is adapted from a novel.

Alastair Sim appears as Ebenezer Scrooge, Mervyn Johns as Bob Cratchit, Glyn Dearman as Tiny Tim Cratchit, and George Cole as Young Ebenezer Scrooge. The screenplay is by Noel Langley. In the United States it streams on Dove Amazon Channel.

A Christmas Carol and The Muppet Christmas Carol make useful companions to Scrooge, all filed under christmas and ghost. TMDB voters put it at 7.4 out of 10 across 387 votes and it carries a NR rating.