6.4
A Christmas Carol (1914)
October 11, 191423mEN
6.6
9 votes
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.
Director
Harold M. ShawWriters
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Status
Released
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Production Companies
London Films ProductionsBFI
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CinemaSerf
6.0It’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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