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Scrooge is a British film of genre Drama directed by Ronald Neame released in USA on 5 november 1970 with Albert Finney
Scrooge (1970)
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 5 november 1970
Length 2h
Directed by Ronald Neame
OriginUnited-kingdom
Themes Films about music and musicians, Christmas films, Time travel films, Ghost films, Musical films
Rating74%
Scrooge is a 1970 musical film adaptation of Charles Dickens' 1843 story, A Christmas Carol. It was filmed in London between January and May 1970 and directed by Ronald Neame, and starred Albert Finney in the title role. The film's musical score was composed by Leslie Bricusse, and arranged and conducted by Ian Fraser. With eleven musical arrangements interspersed throughout (all retaining a traditional British air about them), the award-winning motion picture is a faithful musical retelling of the original, with one exception noted below. The film received limited praise, but Albert Finney won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Musical/Comedy in 1971.
The film received four Academy Award nominations.
Synopsis
Ebenezer Scrooge (Albert Finney) is a cold-hearted and greedy old miser whose only concern is money and profit and hates everything to do with Christmas. After Scrooge scares off a group of boys who were singing a carol outside his door, his nephew Fred (Michael Medwin) arrives to invite him to Christmas dinner with his wife and friends. Scrooge, however, refuses. After Fred leaves, Scrooge gives his clerk Bob Cratchit (David Collings) the next day off as it is Christmas, but he expects him back all the earlier the next morning. Bob meets two of his children, including Tiny Tim (Richard Beaumont), in the streets, and they buy the food for their Christmas dinner. Scrooge, meanwhile, is surveyed by two other men (Derek Francis and Roy Kinnear) for a donation for the poor but Scrooge refuses to support the prisons and workhouses and even says "if they rather die, then they better do it and decrease the surplus population." On his way home, Scrooge meets some of his clients, including Tom Jenkins (Anton Rogers), and reminds them the debts they owe him. In a running gag, Scrooge is stalked and being made fun of by the same street urchins seen at the start of the film, calling him "Father Christmas.Actors
Albert Finney
(Ebenezer Scrooge)
Alec Guinness
(Jacob Marley's Ghost)
Edith Evans
(Ghost of Christmas Past)
Kenneth More
(Ghost of Christmas Present)
Michael Medwin
(Nephew Fred)
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