Scrooge

Name: Scrooge
Genre: Drama, Thriller, Fantasy, Romance, Family
Released: November 5, 1970
Duration: 113 min
Rating: 58
Cast: Albert Finney, Anton Rodgers, David Collings, Edith Evans, Frances Cuka

1970

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Twentieth Century Fox Film Company | Release Date: November 5, 1970 | TV-G

Starring: Albert Finney, Anton Rodgers, David Collings, Edith Evans, Frances Cuka, Kenneth More, Laurence Naismith, Michael Medwin, Suzanne Neve

Summary: A musical retelling of Charles Dickens' classic novel about an old bitter miser taken on a journey of self-redemption, courtesy of several mysterious Christmas apparitions.

Director: Ronald Neame

Genre(s): Drama, Thriller, Fantasy, Romance, Family, Musical

Rating: TV-G

Runtime: 113 min

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Albert Finney's remarkable performance in the title role; executive producer Leslie Bricusse's fluid adaptation of the Charles Dickens classic, A Christmas Carol, plus his unobtrusive complementary music and lyrics; and Ronald Neame's delicately controlled direction which conveys, but does not force, all the inherent warmth, humor and sentimentality. Read full review

TV Guide Magazine Staff (Not Credited)

Director Ronald Neame's well-paced film captures the period beautifully, and the acting is superb, with Finney and Alec Guinness, as Marley's ghost, real standouts. Read full review

Roger Ebert

Alec Guinness contributes a Marley wrapped in chains; the Christmas turkey weighs at least 40 pounds; Tiny Tim is appropriately tiny, and Scrooge reforms himself with style. What more could you want? Read full review

Vincent Canby

It is absurd, sentimental, pretty, never quite as funny as it intends to be, but quite acceptable, if only as a seasonal ritual. Read full review

[Finney] plays Scrooge less like a Dickens character and more like that crooked man who walked a crooked mile, of Mother Goose nursery rhyme fame. But it’s fun to see him cut a rug at Scrooge’s own funeral to the tune of Leslie Bricusse’s Thank You Very Much, the great show-stopping tune of this otherwise ho-ho-hum musical. Read full review

Pauline Kael

Innocuous musical version of A Christmas Carol, starring Albert Finney looking glum. The Leslie Bricusse music is so forgettable that your mind flushes it away while you're hearing it.

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A misbegotten musical adaptation of Dickens' much too perennial tale, featuring songs by Leslie Bricusse that are not only anaemic but piffling in their up-front relevance. Read full review

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