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It’s my favorite story of all time. I like to re-read it every now and then. I think the 1951 production is no longer the “gold standard” as the author claims. George C. Scott is now wearing that mantle. Scott makes Scrooge a formidable and merciless tyrant. His reclamation is more satisfying than Alister Sim’s characterization. By comparison, Sim comes off frail, timid, and completely unintimidating, whose change of heart is anti-climactic. Heck, I even prefer Michael Caine as Ebeneezer in “A Muppet Christmas Carol.”

4 posted on 12/24/2024 9:28:32 AM PST by The_Harlequin (…the time will arrive when you will learn to judge for yourself of what is going on in the world, wi)

5 posted on 12/24/2024 10:30:02 AM PST by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)

With me it was always a tossup between Alastair Sim and Reginald Owen. George C Scott didn’t even make my top 5 list.