Scrooge (1935 film)
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| Directed by | Henry Edwards |
| Produced by | Julius Hagen |
| Written by |
H. Fowler Mear Charles Dickens (novel) |
| Based on |
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens |
| Starring |
Sir Seymour Hicks Donald Calthrop Robert Cochran Mary Glynne Garry Marsh Oscar Asche Marie Ney C.V. France |
| Music by | W.L. Trytel |
| Cinematography |
Sydney Blythe William Luff |
| Edited by | Ralph Kemplen |
| Distributed by |
Twickenham Film Studios (United Kingdom) Paramount Pictures (United States) |
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78 minutes 63 minutes (edited version) |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
Twickenham Film Studios (United Kingdom)
78 minutes
Scrooge is a 1935 British fantasy film directed by Henry Edwards and starring Seymour Hicks, Donald Calthrop and Robert Cochran. Hicks appears as Ebenezer Scrooge, the miser who hates Christmas. It was the first sound version of the Charles Dickens classic A Christmas Carol, not counting a 1928 short subject that now appears to be lost. Hicks had previously played the role of Scrooge on the stage many times beginning in 1901, and again in a 1913 British silent film version.
On Christmas Eve in 1843 Ebenezer Scrooge a cold-hearted and greedy elderly money-lender is seen working in his freezing counting house along with his suffering, under-paid clerk Bob Cratchit. Two fellow business men arrive at the counting house to collect a donation for the poor from Scrooge but the old man instead supports the prisons and workhouses and goes as far to say if the poor would rather die then they 'better do it and decrease the surplus population'. Scrooge catches Bob trying to take some coal but warns him he will be out of a job if he does not go back to work. Scrooge then refuses to dine with his only relative Fred his nephew and claims Christmas is 'Humbug!'.
That night after work Bob goes home to celebrate the holidays with his family while Scrooge dines alone at a seedy pub while the lords and ladies of London celebrate Christmas with the Mayor of London. At his house Scrooge encounters the ghost of his seven year dead partner Jacob Marley (Who is invisible in this version) who wears a chain he 'forged in life' from his own wicked career. He tells Scrooge he will be haunted by three sprits in order to escape his fate.
That night as Marley warned Scrooge is haunted by the Ghost of Christmas Past who shows Scrooge when he lost his fiancée due to his greedy nature towards others including a debt-ridden couple. Scrooge then sees that his ex-fiancée is now married and has many children.
The next sprit the Ghost of Christmas Present shows Scrooge just how poor Bob and his family are as they have a merge Christmas dinner of goose and pudding. The spirit threatens that unless the future changes Tiny Tim the youngest son who is ill will die. Scrooge then sees how others keep Christmas before seeing Fred celebrate with his wife and friends.
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