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Scrooge (1935)

Drama | Family | Fantasy
Rayting:   6.5/10 2.1K votes
Country: UK
Language: English
Release date: November 26, 1935

Scrooge is mean old miser who wants nothing to do with Christmas. The Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future appear to Scrooge, taking him on a journey into the very spirit and magic of Christmas itself.

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gavin6942 16 March 2015

Scrooge (Seymour Hicks), the ultimate Victorian miser, has not a good word for Christmas, though his impoverished clerk Cratchit and nephew Fred are full of holiday spirit. But in the night, Scrooge is visited by spirits of another color.

This film has been seen by many people not because it is the best version, but because it fell into the public domain and therefore can be shown on TV for free and sold at store for as low as $1. It also is probably not the worst version, though it is hard to say depending on who you get it from. Being in the public domain means it can be copies from a copy and look or sound terrible. There is little incentive to clean up the film.

The one included with the 1951 version of "A Christmas Carol" is pretty good. The picture is a bit rough at times, but not awful, and the music has held up pretty well.

claudio_carvalho 26 February 2011

Fmovies: In the Victorian England, the stingy and cranky Ebenezer Scrooge (Sir Seymour Hicks) does not care to Christmas and runs his business exploiting his employee Bob Cratchit (Donald Calthrop) and clients. In the Christmas Eve, he is visited by the doomed ghost of his former partner Jacob Marley that tells him that three spirits would visit him that night. The first one, the spirit of past Christmas, recalls his miserable youth when he lost his only love due to his greed; the spirit of the present Christmas shows him the poor situation of Bob's family and tiny Tim and how joyful life may be; and the spirit of future Christmas shows his fate. Scrooge finds that life is good and time is too short and suddenly you are not there anymore, changing his behavior toward Christmas, Bob, his nephew Fred (Robert Cochran) and people in general.

"Scrooge" is another great version of "A Christmas Carol", by Charles Dickens. I do not recall how many versions of this magnificent tale of redemption I have watched, but this 1935 is one of the best, with a fantastic performance of Sir Seymour Hicks. This film has been recently released by Brazilian distributor Flashstar in black and white and colorized versions in the same DVD but edited to 60 minutes only. I found the complete version in Youtube (http://www.youtube.com/watch? v=_Sr2ow_ZH9w). "Scrooge" (in any version) and "It's a Wonderful Life" are mandatory for viewer that enjoy Christmas. My vote is eight.

Title (Brazil): "O Fantasma de Scrooge" ("The Ghost of Scrooge")

Hitchcoc 25 December 2014

This version of the Dickens classic is decent enough. But it treads so lightly, ignoring key elements of the original story. It isn't bad for mood and atmosphere, but it never captivates like some of the other superior efforts. For "A Christmas Carol" to really work we must get into the head of Scrooge, to feel what it is that has made him. We got none of that here. The acting is decent, but the budget must have been a little lacking. I found the absence of an actor to play Marley's ghost to be a shortcoming, for it is here that Scrooge begins to find the error of his ways, not in a big way because he argues for the preservation of his inadequate life. The Ghost of Christmas past doesn't get into the harsh realities of young Scrooge, and so we are left without a psychological foundation. Anyway, from one who has been enamored with this wonderful story for a lifetime, I didn't feel this stacked up very well. There seems to be a kind of fat and sassy Cratchitt and Tiny Tim doesn't really draw our sympathy.

Leofwine_draca 23 December 2015

Scrooge fmovies. SCROOGE is an early British adaptation of the famous Dickens story, A Christmas CAROL. It features a strong central performance from noted stage actor Sir Seymour Hicks who makes his Scrooge a dastardly creation who you enjoy seeing getting his comeuppance. Despite the low budget, a lot of effort has gone into making this an atmospheric piece with fog-swirling streets and the like.

Obviously, SCROOGE has dated a fair bit since release, and more recent Scrooges have made this all but forgotten. It's dated and a bit creaky, as are a lot of 1930s films, and it doesn't help that the quality of the print has deteriorated significantly over the years. The low budget is sometimes apparent when we only hear rather than see the ghosts. Nonetheless, I think it does a good job of capturing the spirit of the Dickens original, and the effort of the cast and crew can't be faulted.

bkoganbing 6 December 2008

This version of A Christmas Carol is not as well known as the MGM version with Reginald Owen in 1938 nor the later British version from 1951 with Alastair Sim, but in seeing this one we get a rare treat to see one of the great men of the English Theater doing his most famous part. Sir Seymour Hicks had been playing the part of Scrooge from the last century when he was in his twenties and criticized by some critics for being too young for the role.

Hicks did a silent version of Scrooge in 1913, it was his screen debut. What we are seeing here is not Charles Dickens per se, but an adaption of the play Hicks did by writer H. Fowler Mear. Still the spirit of Dickens message of universal brotherhood is not affected in any way by the screenplay.

I have to say that I marveled at Hicks even without dialog being able to create through force of personality and maybe some makeup, the soul of the miserly Ebenezer Scrooge and then after his encounter with the three spirits, a reformed, contrite and merry Scrooge. It's like watching two different people in the same role.

Hopefully more of the public on this side of the big pond will get to see Sir Seymour Hicks essay the role of the greatest reformed miser in history. They will be blessed, everyone.

MartinHafer 1 October 2014

There have been tons of versions of "A Christmas Carol"--perhaps more than any other film. Because of this, only a very few stand out in a positive way--the rest are just copies of copies of copies and nothing more. I would put this 1935 film in this latter category, as it is competent enough in most ways and tells the story but absolutely nothing more. And, to make matters worse, much of Dickens' original social commentary has been deliberately muted.

Before I talk about the quality of the film, I should say something about the quality of the print now available from archive.org. While downloads from this site are free since the films are in the public domain, a few of the films are a bit of a mess and could use some restoration. This is DEFINITELY the case with this film as the sound track and film are way out of sync. The only to deal with this was to periodically stop the film and re-start it--but soon it returned to the soundtrack being way ahead of the film. I am not sure how to fix this, and judging by the mediocrity of the film, it may not be worth doing.

As for "Scrooge", this 1935 version is from Twickenham Studios and it boasts a cast of relatively minor actors. In the lead is Seymour Hicks who was reasonably good in the lead though he looked a bit older, gruffer and grouchier than most Scrooges. I won't beat a dead horse and discuss the plot--we ALL are familiar with it. However, I was very surprised that this film seemed to strongly de- emphasize the negative commentary about the rich and their duty to their fellow man. Apart from Scrooge, ALL the rich folks are wonderful and there even is a completely superfluous scene which I've never seen in another version that shows a lot of rich swells (led by the Lord Mayor of London) toasting the health of the Queen. Why? I guess to say, in an indirect way, that the mega-rich are really the salt of the earth and backbone of the British empire. Whatever. All I know is that the whole poverty angle was apparently distasteful to the blokes who made this one and they really gutted this aspect of the film. Additionally, at times, the film took some liberties which made it look cheap...which it was, actually. You do NOT see Jacob Marley's ghost AND the Ghost of Christmas Past is an ethereal thing--more of a cloud than a figure.

Overall, this is a great version if you don't want to bother with social commentary, excellent special effects or top acting. It's sort of a cheaper version and considering how many nicer looking ones are out there, I see no real reason to see this one.

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