A Christmas Carol (1951)

A Christmas Carol (U.S. title) or Scrooge is a 1951 British film adaptation of the Charles Dickens classic novel Christmas Carol. It was directed by Brian Desmond Hurst, with a screenplay by Noel Langley, and starred Alastair Sim as Ebenezer Scrooge and.

Plot
An old bitter miser is given a chance for redemption on Christmas Eve when he is haunted by three ghosts. The spirits remind him of the past that has led him to be the cold-hearted man he is, show him the effect his harshness is having on others in the present, and reveal his possible future if he does not change his ways.

Cast

 * Alastair Sim as Ebenezer Scrooge
 * Kathleen Harrison as Mrs. Dilber
 * Mervyn Johns as Bob Cratchit
 * Hermione Baddeley as Mrs. Cratchit
 * Michael Hordern as Jacob Marley/Marley's Ghost
 * George Cole as Young Ebenezer Scrooge
 * John Charlesworth as Peter Cratchit
 * Michael Dolan as The Ghost of Christmas Past
 * Francis de Wolff as The Ghost of Christmas Present
 * C. Konarski as Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come
 * Rona Anderson as Alice (Belle)
 * Carol Marsh as Fan
 * Brian Worth as Fred
 * Miles Malleson as Old Joe
 * Ernest Thesiger as the Undertaker
 * Glyn Dearman as Tiny Tim
 * Roddy Hughes as Fezziwig
 * Hattie Jacques as Mrs. Fezziwig
 * Louise Hampton as Laundress
 * Eliot Makeham as Mr. Snedrig
 * Hugh Dempster as Mr. Groper
 * Richard Pearson as Mr. Tupper
 * Jack Warner as Mr. Jorkin
 * Patrick Macnee as the young Jacob Marley
 * Douglas Muir as Businessman
 * Clifford Mollison as Samuel Wilkins
 * Theresa Derrington as Fred's Maid

Trivia

 * Though it is a quintessential Christmas film, it was actually released on Halloween in 1951.