Posted on 12/13/2014 9:14:41 PM PST by Kartographer
We love the George C. Scott version around this house.
i like the George C Scott version but the Alastair Sim version is the best. i have the DVD.
George C. Scott version is the best. I also Ike the 1951 version.
There was a version starring Susan Lucci as a TV producer
that was very good too.
I, too, love the Mr Magoo version and saw on Facebook that an orchestra in NYC is performing the music this Christmas for charity.
Tangent: I just started reading “Jacob Marley’s Christmas Carol”. The author acted in hundreds of presentations of “A Christmas Carol”, and came to conclude that Jacob Marley’s perspective was unduly neglected: freshly dead, he’s suddenly obliged to intervene for Scrooge who escapes his doom, but Marley is doomed nonetheless without such an opportunity. Ergo, the book tells the classic story from the perspective of a minor character, akin to the alternate tellings of “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead” (reflecting “Hamlet”), “Wicked” (reflecting “Snow White”), “Grendel” (reflecting “Beowulf”), etc.
Now I can’t get that Tiny Tim reference to razzleberry dressing out of my head :)
Thank you very much.
Thank you very much.
That’s the nicest thing that anyone’s ever done for me.
The musical for this song and dance...
And if i had a bugle i would blow it, to give it that certain how’s your father touch...
We watched Scrooged with Bill Murray last night.
Magoo cuz it was the first one i saw as a kid.
Sim is good also.
Surprisingly, the Muppets version is quite good, although my favorite is the animated version with Jim Carrey as Scrooge. It is the most true to the original story and dialog.
Alastair Simms
it used to be Alastair Sim, but i have to admit that i am partial to the Patrick Stewart version... maybe i have a bias for him because of ST:TNG...
mine is...
A Christmas Carol is a 1938 American film adaptation of Charles Dickens’s 1843 novelette A Christmas Carol, where Ebenezer Scrooge (Reginald Owen), an elderly miser, learns the error of his ways on Christmas Eve, when he reflects on his past, present and future collectively, whereupon the mean old miser undergoes a radical change of heart and is “awakened” on Christmas morning a changed man.[1]
That's my favorite too.
Besides Patton, one of my favorite George C. Scott movies is the "The Changeling." Released in 1980, it's a ghost story which co-stars his wife Trish Van Devere.
For many years, the 1951 black and white Alastair Sim’s version was our favorite. But George C. Scott’s Scrooge just completely owned the part, and that rendition is much more faithful to the book. Since GCS’s version came out, it’s taken over first place.
Reginald Owen.
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