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A Christmas Carol is a american film of genre Drama directed by Edwin L. Marin released in USA on 16 december 1938 with Reginald Owen
A Christmas Carol (1938)
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Add to a movie listA Christmas Carol is a 1938 American film adaptation of Charles Dickens's 1843 novelette A Christmas Carol, about Ebenezer Scrooge (Reginald Owen), an elderly miser, who learns the error of his ways on Christmas Eve after visitations by four spirits, prompting a radical change in his personality on Christmas morning.
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The film opens on Christmas Eve in early Victorian London where Fred (Barry Mackay) arrives at the counting-house of his maternal uncle, Ebenezer Scrooge (Reginald Owen). Despite being invited to dine with his nephew the next day, Scrooge refuses. He then turns away two men who are collecting money for the poor, instead supporting the prisons and workhouses. That night Scrooge allows his clerk Bob Cratchit (Gene Lockhart) the next day off with pay but orders him back all the earlier the day after. After Bob accidentally knocks Scrooge's hat off with a snowball Scrooge sacks him on the spot, and deducts him a shilling. Bob spends the last of his wages on food for his family's Christmas dinner.Actors
Reginald Owen
(Ebenezer Scrooge)
Gene Lockhart
(Bob Cratchit)
Kathleen Lockhart
(Mrs. Cratchit)
Terry Kilburn
('Tiny Tim' Cratchit)
Barry MacKay
(Scrooge's Nephew Fred)
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