'A Christmas Carol'

12/13/2022 | Kartographer

[Kartographer]

'A Christmas Carol' starring George C. Scott. '1984'

[Kartographer]

Tonight was my yearly airing of 'A Christmas Carol' (1984) starring George C. Scott. My favorite and IMHO the very BEST version! Scott portrayal of Ebenezer Scrooge is spot on with not a hint of the cartoonish over the top villainy so many version present. He is a man blinded by his need to do well financially in his life while completely ignorant to the lives of his fellow man living around him as well as being blind to all other faucets of his own life he as ignored and neglected in his pursuit of business success much to his own detriment and loss in every other facet of his personal life. I also believe you would be hard put to name another version with a better supporting cast than this version which counts among its members: Frank Finlay Jacob Marley Angela Pleasence Ghost of Christmas Past Edward Woodward Ghost of Christmas Present Michael Carter Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come David Warner Bob Cratchit Susannah York Mrs. Cratchit So if you haven't seen it watch it and if you have watch it again! So Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! And of course: GOD bless us every one!

[tallyhoe]

I like the 1938 one with Reginald Owens..

[Hebrews 11:6]

My favorite also. Watched it last week and will watch again next week.

Scott was born to play Scrooge. No one else comes close.

[cld51860]

I agree. By far the best version!

[PGR88]

1999, with Patrick Stewart as Scrooge

[Southnsoul]

No one well ever touch the version that Alastair Sim did in 1951. It’s our family’s favorite Christmas movie.

[Maris Crane]

Sorry, Alistair Sims IS Scrooge .

[Captain Peter Blood]

I like the 1937 version with Reginald Owen.

Alistair Sim is great and so is the George C. Scott version.

[Maris Crane]

It’s good to like all of them.

It is a great story and to get several renditions of them is pretty good.

[jmacusa]

To each is own. But the ABSOLUTE best’’Christmas Carol’’ is the 1951 version with Alister Sim as “Scrooge’’.

[jmacusa]

Indeed!!

[Callahan]

Nope. Sims version cuts too many corners. Scott 1984 is most authentic to Dickens.

[Kartographer]

As said to each their own, bur for me I dis like those who play Scrooge as a melodramatically almost cartoonish scenery chewer, it has been my experience that those type never change because they never hear anything but their own voice.

[Repeal The 17th]

“A Christmas Carol”
With “Scrooge” played by:
1938-Reginald Owens
1951-Alastair Sim
1984-George C. Scott
1988-Bill Murray (”Scrooged”)
1999-Patrick Stewart

Plus:
1962-A Mr. Magoo version
1983-A Disney version
1992-A Muppet version
And many other versions...

It’s all good, it was a dickens of a story!

[ClaytonForester]

I vote Alastair Sims.

[kaktuskid]

There was “An American Christmas Carol” with Henry Winkler

[magooey]

I vote for the 1962 version.

[Fester Chugabrew]

Ditto!

[USAF1985]

Owens, Sims and Scott all have places in my heart. George C Scott edges the other two by a nose (he was Patton…the perfect Scrooge).

[Adder]

Roger Rees as Fred played the young English dandy perfectly. Use “Oh hurrah” pretty much all the time.

Love G.C. Scott in the role but I have a huge soft spot for Alister Simm.

I think the 1984 version was a lusher production with so many fine nuances that it seemed to capture Dickens more completely.

But what do I know...I put Christmas Vacation at the head of all the Christmas movies.