A Christmas Carol
1938 · Movie · 69 min. · United States
On Christmas Eve, an old miser named Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by the spirit of his former partner, Jacob Marley. The deceased partner was in his lifetime as mean and miserly as Scrooge is now and he warns him to change his ways or face the consequences in the afterlife. Scrooge dismisses the apparition but the first of the three ghosts, the Ghost of Christmas Past, visits as promised. Scrooge sees those events in his past life, both happy and sad, that forged his character. The second spirit, the Ghost of Christmas Present, shows him how many currently celebrate Christmas. The Ghost of Christmas yet to Come shows him how he will be remembered once he is gone. To his delight, the spirits complete their visits in one night giving him the opportunity to mend his ways.
Direction Edwin L. Marin
Cast Reginald Owen · Gene Lockhart · Kathleen Lockhart · Terry Kilburn · Barry MacKay · Lynne Carver · Leo G. Carroll · Lionel Braham · Ann Rutherford · D'Arcy Corrigan · Ronald Sinclair · Donald Hainey · Bunny Beatty · Frank Benson · Billy Bevan · Ted Billings · Matthew Boulton · Bob Carey · Charles Coleman · Harry Cording · Richard Deane · David Dunbar · Herbert Evans · Gertrude Geyer · Douglas Gordon · Lumsden Hare · Hugh Harrison · Forrester Harvey · Harold Hensen · Halliwell Hobbes · Olaf Hytten · Boyd Irwin · Bill James · I. Stanford Jolley · Tiny Jones · Muriel Kearney · Colin Kenny · Crauford Kent · George Kirby · Maude Leslie · Norma Leslie · William Martin · John O'Day · Charles Peck · John Rogers · Clifford Severn · Renee Shearing · William Stack · Ira Stevens · James Stevens · Doris Stone · Monte Vandergrift · Delmar Watson · Eric Wilton
Soundtrack Franz Waxman
Screenplay Hugo Butler · Charles Dickens
Cinematography Sidney Wagner · John F. Seitz
Original title A Christmas Carol
6.8
86 votes (FilmAffinity)
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