The Movie: Scrooge (aka: A Christmas Carol) (1951)
What Is It?: The
best adaptation of Dickens’s perennial ghost story has the atmosphere of a
Hammer Horror movie, the cinematography of a great film noir, and one of
cinema’s most moving performances from Alastair Sim. Look out for the cameos
from Hammer’s Carol Marsh and Universal’s Ernest Thesiger (“Do you like egg
nog? It is my only weakness”).
Why Today?: The
film’s events begin on Christmas Eve.
