“What happened when Scrooge saw Marley's face on the door knocker...and the clock struck twelve!”
Ebenezer Scrooge, the ultimate Victorian miser, hasn't a good word for Christmas, though his impoverished clerk Cratchit and nephew Fred are full of holiday spirit. In the night, Scrooge is visited by spirits of the past, present, and future.
Henry Edwards
Julius Hagen
H. Fowler Mear
William Luff
W.L. Trytel
Seymour Hicks
Ebenezer Scrooge
Donald Calthrop
Bob Cratchit
Robert Cochran
Fred
Mary Glynne
Belle
Garry Marsh
Belle's Husband
Oscar Asche
Spirit of Christmas Present
Athene Seyler
Scrooge's Charwoman
Maurice Evans
Poor Man
Mary Lawson
Poor Man's Wife
Barbara Everest
Mrs. Cratchit
Eve Gray
Fred's Wife
Morris Harvey
Poulterer with Prize Turkey
... and 9 more
CinemaSerf
Clearly, the story is the stuff of Christmas legend so there was no need to re-invent the wheel. Perhaps, also, because it was made in 1935 and Sir Seymour Hicks was already 64 when he portrayed "Scrooge" this film works well. It is both charming and poignant and uses the basic film techniques of th...
Julius Hagen Productions