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A Christmas Carol

Scrooge (A Christmas Carol)

1951

Brian Desmond Hurst

Alastair Sim, Kathleen Harrison, Mervyn Johns, Hermione Baddeley ...

6.8

860

Fantasy. Drama An old bitter miser is given a chance for redemption when he is haunted by ghosts on Christmas Eve.

	Author	Review
United States	Scott G. Mignola Common Sense Media	"[Aided by Noel Langley's] insightful script and some truly phenomenal performances, director Brian Desmond Hurst gave us a grand Christmas present with this film (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Bosley Crowther The New York Times	"[Hurst] has got some arresting recreations of the story's familiar characters (...) [It] is an accurate comprehension of the agony of a shabby soul"	POS
United Kingdom	Tom Charity Time Out	"[The director] stages the action competently, but the transitions between scenes are so choppy you wonder where the ads are"	NEU
United Kingdom	Monika Maurer Empire	"The success of this interpretation, however, largely rests on the shoulders (...) of Alastair Sim, whose wry performance gives us a fully three-dimensional Scrooge (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
Ireland	Donald Clarke Irish Times	"A Carol that hits all the top notes. Alastair Sim and a superb supporting cast make this 1951 retelling of Dickens' classic the best ever committed to film"	POS
United Kingdom	David Parkinson Radio Times	"This is easily the best screen version of the much-loved yuletide tale. The ever-versatile Alastair Sim is impeccable (...) This is not to be missed (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS

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