Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested) Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9786303824352 Format: Closed-captioned, Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC ISBN: 6303824358 Label: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment Release Date: October 05, 1999 Running Time: 100 minutes Sales Rank: 3685 Studio: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment Theatrical Release Date: December 17, 1984
Amazon.com essential video: In the same year that he directed a handsome version of The Scarlet Pimpernel for television, Clive Donner also made this worthy 1984 small-screen production of the Dickens tale. George C. Scott can't quite muster a decent English accent, but he does bring some new colors to this movie's interpretation of Scrooge, making the character less nasty for the sake of nastiness and more a product of a life of lovelessness. The supporting cast is first-rate, and the production is far more handsome than most TV fare. --Tom Keogh
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Rating: - This "Patton meets A Christmas Carol" is missing one important "spirit"
Great production values, costumes,cinematography...but this version is as serious as a heart attack and almost as fun..the great George C.Scott (unfortunately)portrays Ebeneezer Scrooge nearly the same as he played George S. Patton (in one of the greatest screen bios ever made, incidentally) ...a pretty joyless outing of this classic tale which also lacks the spark and entertainment value of so many of the other versions...check out SCROOGE starring Albert Finney for an ultimate version along with the classic animated MR.MAGOOS CHRISTMAS CAROL
Rating: - George C Scott in A Christmas Carol
I think this is the best production of A Christmas Carol that I have seen.
Rating: - Best version of this movie by far. George C Scott is awesome as Scrooge.
All characters are portrayed better in this version than any other. Not only is George C. Scott the best Scrooge, but this version has the best Fred, Marley, ghosts, Bob and so on. also, this version is very well directed and has some great lines from Scrooge that no other version has.
Rating: - By Far And Away The Best
George C. Scott does not play Scrooge like "Crabby Appleton". Nor did Dickens write Scrooge that way. In most versions I've seen, the actors are content to play Scrooge like Charles Laughton doing Captain Bligh, no humor or shading whatsoever. As a result, when they get to the end of the story, they look more crazy than filled with joy. Believe it or not, Scrooge is one of Dickens more humorous characters. I defy you to say in you mind "Any fool that goes around with Merry Christmas on his lips should be boiled in his own pudding and buried with a stake of Holly though his heart" and not see the dark humor in it. And how many of us would be able to stand in front of a ghost and say "There's more gravy than grave about you". Scott even manages to make "Bah, Humbug" into something at least Simi-humorous. As a result of his not being a just plain mean person, the redemption scene is believably. The movie also includes ... Read More
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