Movie Information
Overall Rank: 1959
Average Rating: 3/4
# of Ratings: 31
Theatrical Release Date: 12/16/1938
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Edwin L. Marin
Actors: Reginald Owen, Gene Lockhart, Kathleen Lockhart, Terry Kilburn, Leo G. Carroll, Ronald Sinclair
Plot: The timeworn Dickens' story about the old merchant Scrooge and how his own disappointments shape his view that neither life or men are worthy of his notice or concern. He displays no charity to anyone, and is especially harsh to his employee Bob Cratchett. But the dessicated gent is about to get his comeuppance when he imagines he is visited by the ghosts of Christmas past, present and future.
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Rating of
3.5/4
Logan D. McCoy - wrote on 11/25/2023
As early and primitive of an adaptation as it is, this "A Christmas Carol" holds up quite well. It deviates some from the original story, but the spirit of the Dickens classic is unchanged.
Rating of
2/4
Ichabod Crane - wrote on 12/19/2010
This version of A Christmas Carol is not very interesting. It lacks a strong central performance, Owen plays Scrooge very boringly. Most of the cast is rather boring although I did like Gene Lockhart as Bob Cratchit. The changes to this one's story are unneeded and do not add anything to the story. The film is never very interesting and is rather boring most of the time. It lack the emotional strength of the great adaptations. There is nothing special about the version it is a completely unspectacular version.
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