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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 .
Alastair George Bell Sim (9 October 1900 – 19 August 1976) was a Scottish actor, who began his theatrical career at the age of thirty. He quickly became established as a popular West End performer, remaining so until his death in 1976.
A Christmas Carol was directed by Richard Williams and its visual style is also largely due to Ken Harris, credited as "Master Animator". It notably had Alastair Sim as the voice of Ebenezer Scrooge — a role Sim had previously performed in the 1951 live-action film Scrooge.
That's probably why so many of us have that one Christmas movie or special that we watch every year. ... ‘A Christmas Carol’ (1951 version, with Alastair Sim as Scrooge) On TV/cable: None ...
Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol (2018), a one-man show adaptation of the story performed by Jefferson Mays at Geffen Playhouse, Los Angeles. [50] In 2020, the show was filmed live at New York's United Palace and released for a limited time on streaming site On The Stage. [51] [52] The show premiered at Broadway's Nederlander Theatre in ...
A 1982 television listing published by The New York Times described the film as "a forgotten and apparently excellent British version of Dickens's Christmas Carol." [8] In 1985, Bob Thomas of Associated Press called the film an "undistinguished Scrooge attempt" that had been overshadowed by the 1951 adaptation. [9]
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A Christmas Carol, a film starring Reginald Owen; The Christmas Carol, a 1949 TV special starring Taylor Holmes; Scrooge, released as A Christmas Carol in the United States, a British film starring Alastair Sim "A Christmas Carol" (Shower of Stars), a 1954 installment of Shower of Stars