![]() ![]() He shows him poor miners joyfully singing Christmas carols and the Cratchits' warm Christmas celebration on Christmas Day. Scrooge is visited by the Ghost of Christmas Present who takes him to see how "men of goodwill" celebrate Christmas. The Spirit reproaches Scrooge for taking Marley's money and house, as an ashamed Scrooge finds himself back in his bed. When Scrooge finally arrives, Marley, knowing he will be punished for his misdeeds, tries to warn Scrooge against his avarice before he dies. On Christmas Eve 1836, Scrooge refuses to leave work early to visit Marley, who is on his deathbed. Years later, when Jorkin is found to have embezzled funds from their now bankrupt company, Scrooge and Marley make good on the missing funds, on condition they be allowed to control the company. Scrooge then witnesses the death of Fan, who had just given birth to his nephew Fred, and discovers he missed her last words asking him to look after her son. After Jorkin's firm buys up Fezziwig's business, Alice breaks her engagement to Scrooge because of his dedication to "a golden idol". He is then shown how he is tempted to leave Fezziwig's to join a business run by Mr. He watches his proposal to his sweetheart Alice, who accepts his ring. The Spirit shows Scrooge the annual Christmas party thrown by his former benevolent employer Fezziwig. His beloved sister Fan arrives to take him home, telling her brother that their father has recently had a change of heart toward Ebenezer. Scrooge is shown himself alone at school, unwanted by his father ever since his mother died in childbirth. Frightened by the visitation, Scrooge takes refuge in his bed.Īt one o'clock, the Ghost of Christmas Past arrives. He further warns Scrooge that he will be visited by three spirits the first will arrive at one o'clock in the morning. Inside the house, Jacob Marley appears as a ghost before Scrooge, warning that he must change his ways or after death forever walk the earth bound in chains, as Marley does. Scrooge returns home and sees the doorknocker transform into the face of his seven years dead partner, Jacob Marley. Scrooge reluctantly gives his poor clerk Bob Cratchit Christmas off since there will be no business for Scrooge during the day, but he expects him back to work all the earlier the next day. His nephew, Fred, invites him to dinner the next day, but Scrooge refuses, disparaging Fred for having married. At his workplace, he refuses to donate to two men collecting for the poor. On Christmas Eve 1843, the tight-fisted Ebenezer Scrooge tells two businessmen that he has no intention of celebrating Christmas. Peter Bull serves as narrator, by reading portions of Charles Dickens' words at the beginning and end of the film he also appears on-screen as one of the businessmen talking with Scrooge (at the beginning of the film) and discussing Scrooge's funeral (as witnessed by Scrooge with the Ghost of Christmas Yet-to-Come). Michael Hordern plays Jacob Marley's ghost, as well as the older Jacob Marley. Jorkin, a role created for the film Ernest Thesiger as Jacob Marley's undertaker and Patrick Macnee as the younger Jacob Marley. Cratchit, Mervyn Johns as Bob Cratchit, Clifford Mollison as Samuel Wilkins, a debtor Jack Warner as Mr. George Cole stars as the younger Scrooge, Hermione Baddeley as Mrs. The film also features Kathleen Harrison as Mrs. Brian Desmond Hurst, producer and director of Scrooge ( A Christmas Carol), in 1976 (portrait by Allan Warren) ![]()
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