A CHRISTMAS CAROL (1938)

 

Directed by: Edwin L. Marin

Based on the novella by: Charles Dickens

Starring: Reginald Owen, Gene Lockhart, Kathleen Lockhart, Terry Kilburn, Barry MacKay, Lynne Carver, Bunny Beatty, June Lockhart, John O'Day, Leo G. Carroll, Ann Rutherford, Lionel Braham, D'Arcy Corrigan, Ronald Sinclair, Elvira Stevens, Forrester Harvey, Olaf Hytten, Harry Cording, Halliwell Hobbes, Charles Coleman, Matthew Boulton, John Rogers, Cliff Severn

69 minutes

(NR - adult themes)

PLOT:

On Christmas Eve, an old miser named Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by the spirit of his former partner, Jacob Marley. The deceased partner was in his lifetime as mean and miserly as Scrooge is now and he warns him to change his ways or face the consequences in the afterlife. Scrooge dismisses the apparition but the first of the three ghosts, the Ghost of Christmas Past, visits as promised. Scrooge sees those events in his past life, both happy and sad, that forged his character. The second spirit, the Ghost of Christmas Present, shows him how many currently celebrate Christmas. The Ghost of Christmas yet to Come shows him how he will be remembered once he is gone. To his delight, the spirits complete their visits in one night giving him the opportunity to mend his ways.

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