A Christmas Carol

Starring: Alastair Sim, Kathleen Harrison, Jack Warner, et al.

Product Description

Dickens' London miser Ebenezer Scrooge meets the ghosts of Christmases past, present and yet to come.

• Format: DVD
• Language: English
• UPC: 089859885129
• Release Date: January 2012
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Publisher: Vci Video
• Director: Brian Desmond Hurst
• Starring: Alastair Sim, Kathleen Harrison, Jack Warner, Mervyn Johns, Hermione Baddeley, Clifford Mollison, Michael Hordern, George Cole, Carol Marsh, Miles Malleson
• Runtime: 1 hour, 26 minutes
• Number of Disks: 1
• Other Video Info: Multiple Formats; AC-3; Black & White; Dolby; Full Screen; NTSC; Subtitled
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.3" x 7.5"

Customer Reviews

The best Christmas Carol version!

The 1951 "Scrooge", with Alastair Sim, is probably the best version of A Christmas Carol on film - unlike most other versions, it stays very true to Charles Dickens' novel, and actually delves into more of Scrooge's "past" from the novel itself - It stays true to many of the novel's details in a way almost every other movie version doesn't accomplish. So many other movie versions are almost even cartoonish, and yet Alastair Sim's performance is neither over-the-top nor cartoonish - Sim's transformation from start to end, his entire performance, is outstanding and makes you feel completely lost in the story itself. Everyone has their favorite movie version of this classic, and as a lover of the *novel itself*, this is by far my personal favorite! Anyone looking for a true-to-novel movie, this is by far your best bet!!

Not as good as other versions!

I wish I had chosen the original or the George C. Scott version. I thought this version was not very good, and it is misrepresented as "A Christmas Carol" but it is called "Scrooge". I didn't like it, and the film quality altho claiming to be remastered is terrible. It is kind of like a cheesy play, there are far superior versions of this Dickens classic that are available. This one is not good.