Scrooge (1935)

Directed by

Henry Edwards

Genre

drama film, fantasy film, Christmas film, ghost film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 18m

Rated

NR

Rating

6.1 of 10 from 53 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A bitter old miser who hates Christmas is visited by three ghosts on Christmas Eve. They show him his past, present, and future to try to change his heart.

atmosphericdramaticnoir-likeghostlysentimentalsupernaturalold-fashionedgloomyuplifting

What happens

Scrooge is a 1935 British Christmas fantasy film directed by Henry Edwards and starring Seymour Hicks, Donald Calthrop and Robert Cochran. The film was released by Twickenham Film Studios and has since entered the public domain. It was the first sound film of feature length to adapt the Charles Dickens novella A Christmas Carol, and it was the second cinematic adaptation of the story to use sound, following a now-lost 1928 short subject adaptation of the story. Hicks stars as Ebenezer Scrooge, a miser who hates Christmas and is visited by a succession of ghosts on Christmas Eve. Hicks had previously played the role of Scrooge on the stage regularly, starting in 1901, and in a 1913 British silent film version. The 1913 film, retitled Old Scrooge, was reissued in 1929 as a "sound film" by the low-budget Weiss Bros. studio, with a synchronized musical score added. Critical reception to Scrooge has been generally positive over the years. Praise has focused on the film's atmosphere, which has been compared to works of German expressionism, and on the performance of Hicks in the title role. Some reviews have criticized the film for its technical limitations and for heavily abbreviating Scrooge's backstory. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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