
“Greater than "David Copperfield"!”
Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the dire fate that awaits him if he does not change his ways. Scrooge is faced with his own story of growing bitterness and meanness, and must decide what his own future will hold: death or redemption.
Release Date: 12/16/1938
Runtime: 69 minutes
Languages: English
Director: Edwin L. Marin
00Companies: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Countries: United States of America
talisencrw
I really loved this early version of the Charles Dickens classic. Reginald Owen and Gene Lockhart (born in nearby London, Ontario) were wonderful as Ebenezer Scrooge and his employee Bob Cratchit, respectively. Definitely a film not to be missed o'er the holiday season...
talisencrw
I really loved this early version of the Charles Dickens classic. Reginald Owen and Gene Lockhart (born in nearby London, Ontario) were wonderful as Ebenezer Scrooge and his employee Bob Cratchit, respectively. Definitely a film not to be missed o'er the holiday season...This is up there with 'A Charlie Brown Christmas' and the Boris Karloff-version of 'How the Grinch Stole Christmas' as ones I have to crack open each and every Yuletide season.

Reginald Owen
Ebenezer Scrooge

Gene Lockhart
Bob Cratchit

Terry Kilburn
'Tiny Tim' Cratchit

Barry MacKay
Scrooge's Nephew Fred

Lynne Carver
Fred's Fiancee Bess

Leo G. Carroll
Marley's Ghost

Ann Rutherford
Spirit of Christmas Past

Lionel Braham
Spirit of Christmas Present

Ronald Sinclair
Young Ebenezer

Kathleen Lockhart
Mrs. Cratchit

Bunny Beatty
Martha Cratchit
Charles Peck
Peter Cratchit
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