Year: 1951
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Starring: Alastair Sim, Jack Warner, Kathleen Harrison
Director: Brian Desmond Hurst
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Starring: Alastair Sim, Jack Warner, Kathleen Harrison
Director: Brian Desmond Hurst
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Review: The first blatant plug: If you have not seen this movie, you deprive yourself of one of the great performances of all time. Do not miss it, order it, buy it or just rent it once.When I was a boy my father introduced me to this version of Scrooge. I remember how we all would sit very still while he recorded the soundtrack to our TV using a microphone on his tape recorder. From there every year at Christmas time the band would come and we would listen to the soundtrack, complete with the introduction music for advertising. Eventually, the band was a cassette and then we video.Now I am the owner of this magical movie on DVD, and there is not a year pass me by, I havent watched the film at least once the joy of watching this version never gave me and other commentators have noted, Alastair Sim as Scrooge, look all you want in part to provide. The transition from miser to philanthropist cope well with sim fighting spirits all the way: I'm too old to change. The staggering success of the last scenes in stark contrast to the character in the opening film.Everytime I saw this film, I find myself fascinated by the way Sim manage a single character to find Scrooge, one that did not previously revealed itself. The young Scrooge played by George Cole, may not have the nasty money grabbing character while interacting with his sister, who works for Fezziwig cure or Alice, but he was not so drunk luck, there's something crazy about him.Perhaps that's what really makes this film. If the novel is about redemption and a rediscovery of humanity, as Alastair Sim find it in abundance in his portrayal.I not reach the end credits without a form of self-renewal going. The characterization carries you with it. I have seen and heard this film at least 50 times and I still smile to myself while waiting for the words, Cratchit! Weather late. Try to keep the old Scrooge weaken quickly.Perhaps a few more people in the world could do with a revelation like this by Scrooge. Would it be so bad if we all feel at times that I do not deserve to be so happy.The second part I have always Kathleen Harrison as Mrs. Dilber. Throughout his plays put on home keeper with a great style. The comments she makes on Old Joe told them the truth, and her first reaction to the transformed Scrooge is confusion and terror in equal measure.I was relieved to read that I am not alone in this world to almost every line to collect, and some of these have become catch phrases in my family, I always seem to be a favorite of my father :-) and a meal to be able to succeed without extra hapenny be raised if requested more bread. So complete - let the enthusiasm of the other contributors and I encourage you to at least try to make this film. And now it is to get in the mail: Poor send it to Bob Cratchit. Label, label, label, label, a label.
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