A Christmas Carol - Scrooge.

[mickd1961]

Every Xmas I watch a version of this great classic.

This year, for the first time ever I’m watching the Seymour Hicks version from 1935.

Wonderfully acted and the filming quality and craft for such an old film is a tribute to the people of that time.

On first look it feels like it is forever ago and I then realised it was filmed exactly 43 years before I left school in 1978 and it’s now 43 years since I left school.......that was a bit of a reality check!

It’s quite sobering to look at a film of that era and to see the huge numbers of extras and all the actors and to think that they’re pretty much all long dead.

A favourite saying of my dad’s was that “you’re a long time dead!”.

Merry Xmas everyone.

[Joy_Division]

I love the Alistair Sim version. The scene where is realises he still has a chance to change his ways and frightens his daily with his new found enthusiasm for Christmas is wonderfully funny and then quite moving when he tells Bob Cratchett he is going to get a rise and to put some more coal on the fire. Great stuff.

[boingy]

I love the Alistair Sim version. The scene where is realises he still has a chance to change his ways and frightens his daily with his new found enthusiasm for Christmas is wonderfully funny and then quite moving when he tells Bob Cratchett he is going to get a rise and to put some more coal on the fire. Great stuff.

Just shows that good acting or even a good character never really ages. A modern B movie with all the digital clarity still doesn't make up for genuinely interesting characters and actors and actresses.

[mickd1961]

I love the Alistair Sim version. The scene where is realises he still has a chance to change his ways and frightens his daily with his new found enthusiasm for Christmas is wonderfully funny and then quite moving when he tells Bob Cratchett he is going to get a rise and to put some more coal on the fire. Great stuff.

I love this version Joy, it’s a masterful piece of work.

I have this one recorded to watch later tomorrow.

I also quite like the more recent version with Patrick Stewart ( Startrek ) starring in it.

[phild]

I'd sooner watch an adaptation of Dickens's works than attempt to read his tedious novels. They are oh so dull they seem to bombard you with words which appear to have no reason to be there most of the time. Anything too wordy and my mind will wander and my mind will continually wander throughout a Dickens novel