Dec 25th  
Scrooge***        

(GB 1951)                                        

Spendthrift accountant Ebeneezer Scrooge is terrorized by ghosts on Christmas night and reforms himself.
Suitable Christmas fare for the 50s collection this year, a well crafted adaptation of Dickens telling the story briskly without too much window dressing, with a fine cast and the definitive screen Scrooge.

Written by: Noel Langley, from the novel by Charles Dickens.
Producers: Brian Desmond Hurst, Stanley Haynes.
Director: Brian Desmond Hurst.
Starring: Alastair Sim, Mervyn Johns, Michael Hordern, Hermione Baddeley, Kathleen Harrison, Jack Warner, George Cole (as young Ebeneezer), Brian Worth, Carol Marsh, Rona Anderson, Michael Dolan, Francis De Wolff, Ernest Thesiger, Mile Malleson.
Photography: C. Pennington Richards.
Music: Richard Addinsell.

Preceded by:
Pathe News (1956)
(The Spirit of Christmas -- Santa Claus: AlreadyI [in Edinburgh] -- Germany: Stille Nacht, Heilige Nacht.)