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	Scrooge - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Scrooge is the surname of Ebenezer Scrooge, the selfish and miserly protagonist of Charles Dickens' 1843 novella A Christmas Carol.
		The popularity of the original character is such that "Scrooge" has come into general usage as a term for a person who is stingy, antisocial, or lacking in Christmas spirit.
		Scrooge, a 1951 film adaptation of A Christmas Carol featuring Alastair Sim in the title role.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Scrooge (193 words)

	BBC - Films - review - Scrooge
		Scrooge's life story is told in a series of flashbacks, facilitated by old-style yet effective trick photography.
		Particularly noteworthy are George Cole as Scrooge's earlier, earnest self, and Michael Hordern as a splendidly tortured Jacob Marley.
		The film ends as one might expect for a morality tale, but is none the worse for it.
	www.bbc.co.uk /films/2000/12/05/scrooge_1951_review.shtml (383 words)

	thetyee.ca In Defense of Scrooge
		Very nearly all we know of Mr Scrooge are the facts gleaned between the lines of a libelous serial article published by one Charles Dickens in the winter of 1843.
		Be that as it may, Mr Scrooge retires to his bed after an apparent whisky-punch flashback in which his deceased former business-partner suffers from a fit of maudlin self-loathing.
		Watch the last scene of the 1951 film closely ("Scrooge was better than his word....) Alastair Sim has it to perfection, the trapped grin of a man who knows that he's being watched, and whose shoulder blades are itching like hell at the point where he imagines the gun pressed to his back.
	thetyee.ca /Views/2003/12/22/In_Defense_of_Scrooge (1949 words)

	A CHRISTMAS CAROL - The Many Versions of A CHRISTMAS CAROL
		By watching different film versions of the same story, students can see that movies are the results of choices made by actors and directors.
		Most viewers will find his Scrooge to be quite different from what they might expect based on other filmed versions: Stewart's Scrooge truly believes in the extreme version of laissez faire capitalism he spouts.
		Scrooge's encounters with his nephew Fred and with the members of the Benevolent Society who come trying to solicit a donation.
	turnerlearning.com /tntlearning/christmascarol/versions.html (627 words)

	"A Christmas Carol" starring Alastair Sim (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Scrooge stalks away as the helpless man stifles an attempt to follow and further beg, realising the futility of it.
		Scrooge's fiancee is heartbroken as he accepts her declaration of the end of their engagement with no feeling.
		Scrooge is apprehensive as he visits nephew Fred's house for the Christmas party he had been invited to the day before.
	www.sheeplaughs.com /scrooge/alastairsim.htm (1885 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - 'A Christmas Carol' - Five Film Adaptations
		Scrooge hears the cry of his nephew as he is about to leave, and looks at the cot with pure hatred.
		By the time Marley is dying, Scrooge is so hard-hearted that he refuses to answer his partner's plea for a final visit until the counting-house has reached the appointed hour of closure.
		This film is a good, live-action version to introduce to the children, and an effective film because of the central performance.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/A1043137 (2043 words)

	Scrooge [1951] DVD at Shop Ireland
		I cry every single time when the young Scrooge (played by George Cole later to be Flash Harry of St. Trinians and Arthur Daly of Minder) is told by his sister when she comes to his boarding school to collect him to come home for Christmas, that he will never be alone again.
		We are shown the death scene of Scrooge's beloved sister, non-Christmas scenes featuring the avaricious young duo of Scrooge and Marley (with the young Marley played by Patrick MacNee of future Avengers fame) making their way up in business, and other scenes Dickens never described directly.
		This 1951 version of A Christmas Carol is a notably good retelling of the Christmas classic, but I much prefer adaptations that actually present the story as it was written.
	www.shopireland.ie /dvd/reviews/B00004D0CE/2 (1074 words)

	British Film Composers complete listing A - F (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Film music composers active in the concert forum as well have always suffered from a snobbism which suggests that because they wrote successful film music they cannot be worthwhile writers of 'serious' music.
		Alwyn approached the film score with the same earnestness of purpose and the same artistic integrity as he did his concert works, and he always tried to meet all the requirements of the film while writing music of high quality.
		The film was to celebrate the endurance of the people of the island of Malta who had sustained intense bombing during the second world war by Axis planes based in Sicily.
	www.musicweb-international.com /film/britlist.htm (15323 words)

	DVD Verdict Review - A Christmas Carol (1951): Special Deluxe Edition
		There's no question that this film is the cornerstone of any decent holiday DVD collection, but as with all public domain titles, a quality presentation can be rarer than a flying reindeer.
		While this reading of Scrooge works to keep the tone of the film light and festive even in potentially gloomy scenes, it also tends to lessen the impact of Scrooge's final salvation.
		Previously, the film was available as a double-sided disc, collecting the colorized film on one side, and the original, fl and white presentation on the other.
	www.dvdverdict.com /reviews/christmascarol1951se.php (1541 words)

	Review: Scrooge (1951) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		In between, he appeared in over fifty films, but the role that has given him true immortality is that of Scrooge.
		At the film's opening, Sim radiates cold; at the end, his giddy exuberance is contagious.
		On the night before Christmas, Scrooge receives four ghostly visitors, all of whom share a mission: to teach him the error of his ways and show him the path to redemption.
	movie-reviews.colossus.net /movies/s/scrooge51.html (839 words)

	Cinematic Adaptations of A Christmas Carol -- An Introduction with Discussion Questions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The best-known film adaptation even fifty years after its initial screening is the 1951 British production in fl-and-white starring Alastair Sim (Renown Pictures; produced and directed by Desmond Hurst).
		One good introduction to cinematic adapations of this work -- and to cinematic adapations of novels in general -- is the following: (1) Show video clip from 1951 film from Scrooge's leaving the office until the departure of Marley's ghost.
		"Scrooge took his melancholy dinner in his usual melancholy tavern; and having read all the newspapers, and beguiled the rest of the evening with his banker's book, went home to bed" (Penguin 54-55).
	www.victorianweb.org /authors/dickens/pva/pva125.html (433 words)

	"A Christmas Carol" (1951) quiz -- free game
		First, true or false: The title for the movie was not "A Christmas Carol" in the country where it was made, the United Kingdom.
		Dilber was created for the film, and was not in the original book.
		The narrator at the beginning and end of the film, also plays a role in the movie.
	www.funtrivia.com /playquiz.cfm?qid=127388 (419 words)

	Amazon.com: Scrooge (1935): DVD: John Brahm,Henry Edwards,Seymour Hicks,Donald Calthrop,Robert Cochran,Mary ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		SCROOGE is the first sound version of Charles Dickens's "A Christmas Carol," filmed in England in 1935.
		Twickenham Film Studios' "Scrooge" is a straightforward interpretation of Dickens' famous Christmas tale about Ebenezer Scrooge, the coldhearted, miserly money-lender who detests Christmas as much as he detests his fellow man. All that changes one fateful Christmas Eve, when he is visited by the ghost of his old partner, Jacob Marley.
		Scrooge only witnesses one grim Christmas from his younger days, the one where his fiance, Belle, terminates their relationship after viewing one of Scrooge's heartless foreclosures on a young couple.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00006IUIT?v=glance (2872 words)

	Classic Coming Attractions by Barrie Maxwell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		His unreformed Scrooge is a flinty reprobate of almost larger-than-life proportions while his redeemed Scrooge is as good-hearted and spectacularly dressed as any well-regarded businessman can be.
		His early Scrooge is a rather ill-tempered individual to whom you'd just like to give a good swat upside the head, but the transformation at the end of the film is quite creditable.
		The pick of the Scrooge litter is VCI's release of the 1951 Alastair Sim version, with George C. Scott's recent 1984 effort a worthy runner-up.
	www.thedigitalbits.com /articles/barriemaxwell/maxwell122204.html (2229 words)

	Spirituality: Sponging The Stone
		Alister Sim, the most robust interpreter of Scrooge, fascinated me by his depiction of a man who starts off as "solitary as an oyster" and winds up a "second father" to orphans, the best neighbor one could possibly imagine.
		With the annual retelling of the tale I luxuriate in the images of sad Tiny Tim, plump Fezziwigian celebrations, social injustice, cruel indifference, and deep regrets that end in transformation.
		There is Marley's plaintive confession: "Mankind was my business." And Scrooge's cynical materialism: "...you may be an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of an underdone potato.
	watershedonline.ca /literature/Dickens/Sponging.html (505 words)

	Winter Solstice--and Dickens
		Dickens took Ebenezer Scrooge, a modern, puritan miser, to task for his stern practicality and disdain of frivolity and charity.
		Scrooge's "Bah, humbug!" regarding Christmas, was a caricature of the Calvinist rantings.
		This is the so-called "Scrooge problem." My own 1998 radio adaptation resolves this by making Scrooge not evil, but mis-guided--a cynical, wise-cracking Newt Gingrich; practical beyond anything--spouting the virtues of workhouses and treadmills and not wanting to make "idle people" merry.
	home.sprynet.com /~palermo/solstice.htm (3018 words)

	Christmas Movies A Christmas Carol 1951 Starring Alastair Sim
		Scrooge (1951) is one of the best-known and most acclaimed film adaptations of Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol.
		The movie has sometimes been criticized for its departures from the novel, notably in its portrayal of Scrooge’s former fiancée, who marries and has children in the original story but is cast as a selfless aged spinster in the film.
		Scrooge starred Alastair Sim (in arguably his best-known role) as the title character, and featured Kathleen Harrison in an acclaimed turn as Mrs.
	www.creatorsweb.com /christmasmovies/A_Christmas_Carol_1951.htm (263 words)

	USATODAY.com - Scrooge gets musical (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		It was Grammer's wife, Camille, who told him to keep his face "constricted." He knew he had to follow her advice to avoid his "own sense of compassion bleeding through" prematurely before Scrooge becomes a nicer person.
		Additionally, Geraldine Chaplin is the foreboding Ghost of Christmas Future, who leads Scrooge to his own grave — at which no one mourns.
		Grammer says his favorite version of the Scrooge tale is the highly comedic 1962 cartoon Mr.
	www.usatoday.com /life/people/2004-11-24-grammer-scrooge_x.htm?csp=36 (674 words)

	Classical Net Review - Addinsell - Film Music
		It will not be entirely new to many listeners; Addinsell scored the 1951 film version of A Christmas Carol - the one with Alastair Sim as Scrooge - and millions of people must see (and hear) that each December.
		Part of the credit must go to the arrangers (Philip Lane prominent among them) who have made sure that each selection, be it a snapshot or a suite, works well without the moving images it was originally meant to accompany.
		Use of text, images, or any other copyrightable material contained in these pages, without the written permission of the copyright holder, except as specified in the Copyright Notice, is strictly prohibited.
	www.classical.net /music/recs/reviews/a/asv02115a.html (504 words)

	DVD Verdict Review - A Christmas Carol (1951): Special Deluxe Edition
		Rich old coot Ebenezer Scrooge (Alastair Sim, Stage Fright (1950)) is no fan of goodwill or peace on earth, so it's not surprising that he shuns the festive holiday season entirely.
		Problem is, Marley has been dead for seven years, and his stopover is not for pleasure -- the ghostly spirit pleads with Scrooge to change his ways before he too is encumbered with heavy chains of retribution in the afterlife.
		Despite the boastful claim about the film's restoration, this is far from a pristine transfer -- but it's not at all bad.
	www.dvdverdict.com /printer/christmascarol1951se.php (1502 words)

	Holiday Films Part 2: SCROOGE (1951)
		Even when the film bogs down in sappy music, there is always fun to be found in Finney’s off-kilter performance as Scrooge.
		Richard Donner’s SCROOGED (1988), starring Bill Murray as a jaded television executive, is surprisingly effective and heartwarming, as well as being very funny.
		But it is the 1951 SCROOGE (alternately known, naturally, as A CHRISTMAS CAROL), starring Alistair Sim, which is generally considered to be the best.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/black_and_white_movies/87232 (259 words)

	Scrooge (1951)
		Superbly shot in chiaroscuro for full ghoulish effect, it tells the tale of the miserly Scrooge's transformation after visitations from the Spirits of Christmases Past, Present and Yet To Come.
		Check your cynicism in at the door and you'll find a supporting cast of well-loved characters, including Bob Cratchit (an excellent Mervyn Johns) and Tiny Tim, and with a smattering of carols all adding to the atmosphere of good cheer.
		When told that, "At this time of year, it is more than usually desirable that we should make some slight provision for the poor and destitute," Sim's ironic delivery of, "Why?" manages to invest humour into the most simple of one-liners, and sums up all that is great about his performance.
	www.britmovie.co.uk /genres/drama/filmography/045.html (310 words)

	Scrooge (1951)
		This does have a tendency to slow the film down at some points - and there are some scenes, like a long one with several Cockney char ladies sitting around debating over who gets Scrooge's belongings, that could have been cut altogether.
		The film is also nicely directed - the appearances of Marley and Christmases Past and Yet to Come verge on horror.
		Most other versions tend to build extravagant and colourful sets, but this version contrarily plays the story out with a tightly packed, downbeat authenticism that is considerably closer to the reality of the era.
	www.moria.co.nz /fantasy/scrooge51.htm (499 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Scrooge [1951]: DVD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The story is beautifully and movingly told - the scenes when Scrooge's resentment of his nephew beginning at Fan's deathbed is explained, and later, when a reformed Scrooge arrives at his nephew's party to beg forgiveness from his neice are outstanding.
		Ebeneezer Scrooge is the main character in Charles Dickens finest novel 'A Christmas Carol'.
		It is a heart warming story of how a tight fisted mean old man was haunted by three spirits at Christmas in the hope of changing his attitude towards his fellow men.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00004D0CE (553 words)

	Christmas and the Conversion of Ebeneezer Scrooge - Christian Business
		His comment also reminds us that modern American culture’s disdain for what it considers the weak and valueless or, what the founder of Planned Parenthood and the architect of modern birth control and abortion, Margaret Sanger, called “human waste,” is nothing new.
		Scrooge’s conscience is “awakened to righteousness” as he is visited on Christmas Eve by four apparitions.
		He went to church, and walked about the streets, and watched the people hurrying to and fro, and patted children on the head, and questioned beggars, and looked down into the kitchens of houses, and up to the windows, and found that everything could yield him pleasure.
	www.businessreform.com /article.php?articleID=11629 (1551 words)

	snopes.com: 1951 "Scrooge" question (and urban legend)
		In the 1951 film, "Scrooge" (aka "A Christmas Carol"), and in a scene on Christmas evening, Scrooge visits the house of his nephew, Fred.
		This maid character has no spoken dialog in the film and, unfortunately, is also uncredited in the cast list.
		Well..this probably isn't what you wanted to hear, but over on an Audrey Hepburn website message board the discussion came up in early 2004 and promptly died when one was asked for a screenshot.
	msgboard.snopes.com /cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=30;t=002532;p=0 (242 words)

	Scrooge: A Christmas Carol (1989) (TV) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		I suppose this was made to introduce kids to classic film, which is OK, but if the movie is able to keep them interested, the inserts just will annoy them as they annoyed me. A movie must talk by itself.
		And I'm not too angry because the 1951 film is my least favorite version of A Christmas Carol (I know I'm almost alone in this).
		If they had made this experiment with other version of Scrooge, or with, say, It's a Wonderful Life, then I'd be upset for life.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0230744 (345 words)

	Patrick Stewart takes a turn as Scrooge
		"I learned that it was a much more restful time playing Scrooge than playing everybody," Stewart said in a press conference with TV critics this summer.
		British actor Richard E. Grant plays Bob Crachit and Joel Grey plays the first spirit who visits Scrooge in this adaptation, which Stewart said was most influenced by the 1951 British film starring Alastair Sim as Scrooge.
		What Stewart hadn't picked up from screen versions of the tale - whether it was the movie with Sim, Bill Murray's "Scrooged" or "The Muppet Christmas Carol" - was a true sense of the times.
	www.post-gazette.com /TV/19991205owen.asp (613 words)

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