I really loved this early version of the Charles Dickens classic. Reginald Owen and Gene Lockhart (born in nearby London, Ontario) were wonderful as Ebenezer Scrooge and his employee Bob Cratchit, respectively. Definitely a film not to be missed o'er the holiday season...
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A Christmas Carol
Overview
Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the dire fate that awaits him if he does not change his ways. Scrooge is faced with his own story of growing bitterness and meanness, and must decide what his own future will hold: death or redemption.
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Release date
16/12/1938
Votes
153
Popularity
2.6
Reginald Owen
Ebenezer Scrooge
Gene Lockhart
Bob Cratchit
Terry Kilburn
'Tiny Tim' Cratchit
Barry MacKay
Scrooge's Nephew Fred
Lynne Carver
Fred's Fiancee Bess
Leo G. Carroll
Marley's Ghost
Ann Rutherford
Spirit of Christmas Past
Lionel Braham
Spirit of Christmas Present
Ronald Sinclair
Young Ebenezer
Kathleen Lockhart
Mrs. Cratchit
Bunny Beatty
Martha Cratchit
Charles Peck
Peter Cratchit
June Lockhart
Belinda Cratchit (uncredited)
Charles Coleman
Charity Solicitor Brummage
Matthew Boulton
Charity Solicitor Twill
Forrester Harvey
Old Fezziwig
John O'Day
Dick Wilkins
Billy Bevan
Street Watch Leader
William Ripley Dorr
Singers of 'Adeste Fideles' (uncredited)
D'Arcy Corrigan
Spirit of Christmas Future
Harry Cording
Waiter (uncredited)
Lumsden Hare
Man Discussing Scrooge's Funeral (uncredited)
Halliwell Hobbes
Clergyman Sliding on Sidewalk (uncredited)
Olaf Hytten
Schoolmaster (uncredited)
I. Stanford Jolley
Man on Sidewalk (uncredited)
Colin Kenny
(uncredited)
Crauford Kent
Scrooge's Tall Business Associate (uncredited)
Delmar Watson
Snowballer in Gang (uncredited)
Herbert Evans
(uncredited)
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I really loved this early version of the Charles Dickens classic. Reginald Owen and Gene Lockhart (born in nearby London, Ontario) were wonderful as Ebenezer Scrooge and his employee Bob Cratchit, respectively. Definitely a film not to be missed o'er the holiday season...This is up there with 'A Charlie Brown Christmas' and the Boris Karloff-version of 'How the Grinch Stole Christmas' as ones I have to crack open each and every Yuletide season.
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