Scrooge (1951 film)

Scrooge (released as A Christmas Carol in the United States) is a 1951 film about an old miser given a chance for redemption when he is haunted by three ghosts on Christmas Eve.

Directed by Brian Desmond Hurst. Written by Noel Langley, based on A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens.

The Holiday Picture of All Time! Charles Dickens' Joyous Classic!  (taglines)

Dialogue

Jacob Marley: Look to see me no more. But look here, that you may remember for your own sake what has passed between us!

Ebenezer Scrooge: Why do they lament?

Jacob Marley: They seek to interfere for good in human matters, and have lost their power forever.

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Mr. Jorkin: You better watch these two, you know. They'd skin Old Scratch alive and he'd never know they done it.

Ebenezer Scrooge: Mr. Marley and myself are prepared to make good out of our own private resources the sum of money appropriated by Mr. Jorkin. But in return, we wish to be allowed the option of buying up further shares in the company until we have reached 51% of the total.

Mr. Jorkin: In short, gentlemen, if you wish to save the fair name of the company, they become the company!

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Bob Cratchit: Mr. Scrooge?

Ebenezer Scrooge: I'm busy.

Bob Cratchit: Well, it's about Mr. Marley, sir. He's dying.

Ebenezer Scrooge: Well, what do you want me to do about it? If he's dying, he's dying.

Taglines

• The Holiday Picture of All Time! Charles Dickens' Joyous Classic!

Cast

• Alastair Sim — Ebenezer Scrooge
• Kathleen Harrison — Mrs. Dilber
• Mervyn Johns — Bob Cratchit
• Hermione Baddeley — Mrs. Cratchit
• Michael Hordern — Jacob Marley's Ghost
• George Cole — Young Ebenezer Scrooge
• Patrick Macnee — Young Jacob Marley
• Glyn Dearman — Tiny Tim
• John Charlesworth — Peter Cratchit
• Michael J. Dolan — the Ghost of Christmas Past
• Francis de Wolff — the Ghost of Christmas Present
• Czesław Konarski — the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come

External links

• Scrooge quotes at the Internet Movie Database