It’s pretty nigh impossible to condense this Dickens story into twenty minutes, but I think that they have made quite a decent fist of it here as Charles Rock takes on the role of the miserly “Scrooge”. It’s a bitterly cold Christmas Eve and poor old “Cratchit” (George Bellamy) can’t even enjoy the carol singers outside of the window but his curmudgeonly boss chases them away. His journey home, via the inn for some unseasonal victuals, takes “Scrooge” to his chilly house where he encounters an apparition. The first of four, as it happens, with the others reminding him of his past, suggesting h…
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