Scrooge Certificate: 
- Duration:
- 86 mins
- Year produced:
- 1951
- Director:
- Brian Desmond Hurst
- Cast:
- Alastair Sim
- Kathleen Harrison
- Mervyn Johns
There have been dozens of movie and TV versions of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol but none is better than this spooky, black-and-white 1951 film starring the great Scottish actor Alastair Sim. Sim is perfect as Scrooge, and the film's great strength is making sure that the visions the tightfisted company boss sees on Christmas Eve are scary enough to make a bad man consider changing his ways.
- Average rating:
(6 votes)
Reviews
24 April 2008
ryanne from Coagh PS
well wahh can i say about scrooge apart frm i lufff it lolz
i cnt beleve dahh dahh men in it r sooooo funnily dressed tho its lak set in da olden days wen mi teecher was der lolz
i miss dahh primry skewl soooo mch tho lolz xxxxx
3 December 2008
Margaret from Thornsett Primary School
Scrooge was a nasty man who hated christmas. One christmas eve he had some strange visitors. It was a bit scarey but I still liked it.
I would give it five stars.
Anna and Ella
Fascinating facts
In the 1950's a New York TV channel broadcast this film continuously all evening and all night until Christmas morning under the title 'A Christmas Carol'
Scrooge was the first film in which Alastair Sim starred alongside the young London actor George Cole – who played the younger Ebeneezer Scrooge. Sim went on to become a professional mentor to Cole, and the two would appear in eleven films together. Now, Cole is still chiefly famous for starring as the loveable rogue Arthur Daley in the long-running 80s TV series Minder.