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A Christmas Carol (2015), an adaptation by Patrick Barlow, starring Jim Broadbent as "Scrooge" at Noël Coward Theatre in London. A Christmas Carol (2017), a new adaptation by Jack Thorne, directed by Matthew Warchus for The Old Vic. Original cast included Rhys Ifans as Scrooge.
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Like Sherlock Holmes, which saw its first adaptation in 1900 with an under-a-minute-long silent production, Dickens’ work premiered on celluloid in 1901. Scrooge, or, Marley’s Ghost, directed by Walter R. Booth and starring Daniel Smith as Ebenezer Scrooge, tried to cover the entire Christmas Carol story in five minutes and without sound. Later col...
Of all the adaptations of A Christmas Carol, most of them are dreadful. The first mistake is when writers and directors think they know more than Charles Dickens. I read the book concurrently with the first 10 or so movies I screened, and it’s the minor departures or alterations that began to pile up like a thousand nettles prodding at my bollocks....
Light your streetlamps, heat up your gruel, and pour the brandy on your best Christmas pudding; here are 57 versions of A Christmas Carol, ranked from worst to best:
Utter drivel from start to finish. This is an animated musical starring Tim Curry as Scrooge. It gives him a dog. Except Scrooge wouldn’t own a dog — he doesn’t have the tenderness to take care of one, wouldn’t spare the extra expenses, and certainly wouldn’t put up with an animal that, as the film shows happening at least three times, regularly fr...
A definitely racist, abhorrent animation that wastes every minute of its hourlong runtime, redeemed only slightly by a misunderstood alligator who’s also a coded-gay academic type.
Alan Menken should be embarrassed at the sheer inanity of his songs here. The poor CG London cityscape is reminiscent of Age of Empires cutscenes, the song-and-dance never rises above passable, and Kelsey Grammer is truly one of the worst Scrooges to ever don the cap and pajamas. Not even Jason Alexanderas Marley can redeem his own musically repreh...
This is one of those specials whose Christmas Carol premise owes to the main character playing Scrooge in an in-world stage play. The near-blind Magoo plays Scrooge, but the movie doesn’t give a whit to honoring its premise besides occasionally cutting to the audience clapping and the curtain falling when it’s time for a commercial break. How does ...
Bugs Bunny dresses up as a ghost and threatens to drag Yosemite Sam to Hell unless he changes his ways. I guess it works, because Yosemite Sam immediately becomes a better person.
Henry Winkler plays Benedict Slade, and this film’s idea of “Americanizing” the story is giving Slade a bunch of stuff around his factory — Dickens’ story was never about materialism, but that’s all An American Christmas Carol can think about. And Winkler is truly awful as Slade; he has so much makeup caked on that he can’t properly turn his neck, ...
A sequel to All Dogs Go to Heaven that features sexy dogs and a canine Scrooge who has a mind-controlling dog whistle. “Don’t mess with heaven!” one of the dogs says. I wonder if the Pope has seen An All Dogs Christmas Carol.
- A Christmas Carol (1951) Directed by Brian Desmond Hurst. Here it is! The granddaddy of them all! The best adaptation of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol of all time, IMHO.
- A Christmas Carol (1938) Directed by Edwin L. Marin. Appearing just a few short years after Edwards' version, Edwin L. Marin's 1938 take featured Reginald Owen in the role of Scrooge, along with Hollywood darlings Gene and Kathleen Lockhart (and their daughter June Lockhart) as the Cratchits.
- Scrooge (1935) Directed by Henry Edwards. Now we're solidly into the classics. Again, your mileage may vary here, but for my money and time, these three are the best traditional adaptations of A Christmas Carol that currently exist.
- A Christmas Carol (1971) Directed by Richard Williams. Our last animated version of A Christmas Carol came as a surprise to me. It's one of the few versions I hadn't seen before and is now one of my favorites.
- Scrooge - 1951. The New York Times has called this the best adaptation of A Christmas Carol ever made, and it's hard to disagree. Alastair Sim is absolutely perfect as Ebenezer Scrooge, nailing each aspect of the character as he evolves from bitter and angry to frightened and regretful and finally renewed and joyful.
- A Christmas Carol - 2009. Robert Zemeckis has spent the better part of the last few years experimenting with performance capture in films like The Polar Express, Beowulf, and this adaptation.
- The Muppet Christmas Carol - 1992. If you want to make anything better, just add Muppets. Combining the Muppets with the story of Scrooge is a brilliant idea, and it resulted in a holiday classic and one of the most fun Carol adaptations ever made.
- Scrooged - 1988. A modern (well, for when it was released anyway) spin on the story of Scrooge, this one features comedy legend Bill Murray as Frank Cross, a ruthless network executive who cares about ratings first and everything else...
Dec 13, 2019 · We delve back into more than a century of A Christmas Carol movies to find the best and worst adaptations of Dickens' festive tale... Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, the classic...
Dec 21, 2022 · The 1843 novella has inspired multiple movie adaptations, including variations of the traditional story (even one with the Muppets ), modern-day retellings like Scrooged and rom-com version...
Dec 20, 2016 · Adaptations of A Christmas Carol fall into three rough categories. The first of these is a straight adaptation, or interpretation of the story of the sake of the story, with an attempt to keep as close to the Dickens text as is possible.
