A Christmas carol [videorecording] / Renown Film Productions.
Material type: FilmPublisher number: LP1341 | Renown Film ProductionsRE-32-642 | Renown Film Productions8215 | VCI EntertainmentPublication details: [S.l.] : VCI Entertainment, c2002.Edition: Black and white versionDescription: 1 videodisc (86 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 inUniform titles:- Christmas carol (Motion picture)
- Executive producer, George Minter ; screenplay by Noel Langley ; story by Charles Dickens ; music by Richard Addinsell ; musical director, Muir Mathieson ; directed by Brian Desmond Hurst.
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Adult DVD | Dr. James Carlson Library | DVD | DRAMA Christma | Available | 33111004236275 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Widely considered to be the definitive of the many film versions of Charles Dickens' classic novel is this 1951 British adaptation, starring Alastair Sim (entitled "Scrooge" in its U.K. release). Sim plays Ebenezer Scrooge, a London miser who, despite his wealth, refuses to make charitable contributions and treats his sole employee, Bob Cratchit, as an indentured servant. On Christmas Eve, Scrooge is visited by the ghost of his late business partner, Jacob Marley, who was as selfish as Scrooge in life and has been condemned to an eternity of wandering the Earth in shackles. Marley informs Scrooge that he's to receive a trio of spirits that night who will take him on a journey through Christmases Past, Present, and Yet to Come. As Scrooge encounters each apparition, he is taken on a tour of his life and realizes what a wretch he is, transformed by greed from an idealistic youth into an embittered ogre. Infused with a new, cheery outlook, Scrooge sets about earning his redemption. ~ Karl Williams, Rovi
Originally released as a motion picture in 1951.
Executive producer, George Minter ; screenplay by Noel Langley ; story by Charles Dickens ; music by Richard Addinsell ; musical director, Muir Mathieson ; directed by Brian Desmond Hurst.
Alistair Sim, Jack Warner, Patrick MacNee, Michael Hordern, George Cole, Rona Anderson, John Charlesworth, Glyn Dearman.
Scrooge, the miser, is reformed when visited on Christmas Eve by the apparitions of the past, present and future.
DVD, mono.
DVD.
Subtitles: English and Spanish, optional narrative for the blind.