Posted on 12/24/2024 7:22:23 AM PST by Rev M. Bresciani
Considered the gold standard for Dicken’s ‘A Christmas Carol’ the film version starring Alastair Sim, released in 1951, was the version played every year in our grammar school when I was a boy.
Without VHS, Disc or streaming available, the teacher brought in a small black and white TV, after struggling to get it tuned, we waited until our local station aired the show, and sat in class and watched in complete silence.
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Yep and I’m sure it was exerpted several times for commercials.
Learn how to make a possessive out of a word ending in ‘s.’ Embarrassing.
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.”
Thanks for your opinion.
With me it was always a tossup between Alastair Sim and Reginald Owen. George C Scott didn’t even make my top 5 list.
When’s the last time you read the original story? I suggest you read it again. Dickens’ thoroughly detailed description of Scrooge is something Scott captured to near perfection.
Merry Christmas
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