Underplayed Gems

Scrooge (1970)

Scrooge poster
Directed by
Ronald Neame
Genre
drama film, fantasy film, musical film, Christmas film
Country
United Kingdom
Runtime
1h 53m
Rated
G
Rating
6.8 of 10 from 167 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

This is a musical version of the classic story about a miserly old man named Ebenezer Scrooge. On Christmas Eve, he is visited by three ghosts who show him his past, present, and future to change his selfish ways. Albert Finney plays Scrooge in this 1970 film adaptation.

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What happens

Scrooge is a 1970 musical film adaptation of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol (1843). It was directed by Ronald Neame, and starred Albert Finney as Ebenezer Scrooge. The film's score was composed by Leslie Bricusse and arranged and conducted by Ian Fraser. The film was a follow-up to another Dickens musical adaptation, 1968's award-winning Oliver!. Both films were shot by Oswald Morris and many of the sets at Shepperton Studios were reused for Scrooge. The posters for Scrooge included the tagline, "What the dickens have they done to Scrooge?", designed to head off any criticism of an all-singing, all-dancing old skinflint. Finney won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy in 1971, and the film received four Academy Award nominations, including for Best Original Song (for "Thank You Very Much"). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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