No Christmas would be complete without the Dickens classic tale of redemption and a list of Christmas films without Scrooge in it would be unthinkable.
There have been many film adaptations
over the years since the first made in the silent era
1910 (Marc McDermott) Silent
1913 (Seymour Hicks) Silent
1935 (Seymour Hicks)
1938 (Reginald Owen)
1951 Scrooge (Alistair Sim)
1970 Scrooge (Albert Finney) Musical
1971 (Alistair Sim) Animated
1984 (George C. Scott)
1988 Scrooged (Bill Murray) Comedy
1997 (Tim Curry) Animated
1999 (Patrick Stewart)
2004 (Kelsey Grammer) Musical
2006 Disney Animated
2009 (Jim Carey) Animated
And even more TV adaptation,
variations and spoofs and I would defy anyone to say that at least one of them
didn’t strike a chord on some level.
Even though my own personal favourite
is the 1984 version with George C. Scott
I find the most uplifting film to be
the 1970 musical version with Albert Finney playing Scrooge and supported ably
by among others Alec Guinness, Edith Evans and Kenneth More with Laurence
Naismith playing an energetic Fezziwig while singing “December the 25th” and Anton Rodgers as Tom Jenkins who
sings the one song everyone remembers the academy award nominated “Thank You Very Much”.
There are a host of other good songs “A Christmas Carol” “Christmas Children” “I Hate People” “Father
Christmas”“ See the Phantoms” “Happiness”
“You...You” “I Like Life” “The Beautiful
Day” and “I'll Begin Again” which all combined to make this a Christmas treat.
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