I'm looking for a particular version of "A Christmas Carol"...?

This version was shown to me every year in school, around 1981-1985. Here are specific things I remember about it:


-The movie is in color. It is not animated, it's with live people.


-Right before Marley visits Scrooge, Scrooge is eating dinner and a bell starts ringing. Then a second bell, then a third bell, then every bell in the house starts ringing loudly.


-Marley opens a window to show Scrooge spirits floating by.


-There's a red velvet curtain going around Scrooge's bed.


-When the ghost of Christmas present takes Scrooge to his nephew's house, they are playing a game that keeps mentioning a cat. "A %26lt;something%26gt; cat is a %26lt;something%26gt; cat."


-The ghost of Christmas future takes Scrooge to the streets of the town and everyone in the town is singing and dancing. Scrooge starts singing and dancing with them, not realizing that they are rejoycing because he's dead.





Does anyone know what version this is?

I'm looking for a particular version of "A Christmas Carol"...?
I believe it's called "Scrooge"


It was a musical version of "A Christmas Carol", with Scrooge played by Albert Finney. That 's about the only thing I remember about it!
Reply:I think it's the one with George C. Scott as Scrooge (it came out in 1984). That's the one my mom likes.








Filmed in Shrewsbury, England, this version of Dickens' beloved classic is considered by many to be the best. All the performances are excellent, but George C. Scott makes the often-played Ebenezer Scrooge his very own. Highly recommended.





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Reply:It sounds a lot like the movie "Scrooge" starring Alastair Sim. It was made in 1951 and shot in black %26amp; white. Years later a colorized version appeared but is no longer shown because of mounting complaints from film makers that the colorized versions of the old B %26amp; W films, and there were many, actually did a disservice to the intent of the original directors and producers some of whom intentionally filmed their movies in B %26amp; W for the effect it produced.





In recent years I have noticed that both AMC and WGN show this four star movie during the Christmas season but neither show the colorized version. You can buy this film on DVD for less than ten dollars.





The bells you refer to were actually clock bells.
Reply:Stave 1: Marley's Ghost





Here the reader meets Ebenezer Scrooge, a miserable but wealthy old man. Scrooge works in his counting house with his clerk, Bob Cratchit.





The First of the Three Spirits





This is the Ghost of Christmas Past - Scrooge's own past. The ghost has a strange changing form and gives out brilliant light. With it Scrooge revisits the scenes of his earlier life.





We see him as a boy at school (a boarding school)on two occasions. First, he sits alone in a cold schoolroom - but as the spirit touches the arm of the child we see the characters of whom he is reading: Ali Baba and the parrot in Robinson Crusoe. Later we see him with his (slightly) older sister, Fan, who has come to bring him home for the holidays. We learn that his father (who seems once to have been unkind) become "much kinder than he used to be". The ghost notes that (unlike Scrooge so far) his sister had a "large heart". She has died, but her son is Scrooge's nephew, Fred.











The Second of the Three Spirits





This spirit is the Ghost of Christmas Present. It is a great giant, dressed in a green robe (a little like a green version of our Father Christmas) and surrounded by piles of food.





This spirit shows Scrooge how Christmas is celebrated by his clerk's family, by strangers near and far, and by his nephew, Fred. The spirit carries a torch and everywhere it goes this torch sprinkles incense or water on people and makes them become kinder to each other.





Scrooge has never been to Bob Cratchit's house. Here he sees how the Cratchits, despite being very poor, can be happy at Christmas.


The Last of the Spirits


In this chapter Scrooge is again taken to places he does not know. The spirit is more like the kind of ghost we meet in conventional ghost stories. It is a hooded phantom, its face is unseen and it points at things but does not speak.





We are puzzled by a group of wealthy men, discussing someone who has died. This person seems very unpopular. In another poor and squalid part of London a pawn-broker, Old Joe, buys stolen property from three people: a laundrywoman (Mrs. Dilber), a charwoman (a cleaner) and the undertaker's assistant. All these poor people have taken things from the dead man - even the curtains from his bed and the shirt off his back.





The End of It


This chapter is very short. Scrooge wonders how much time has passed while he was with the spirits, and calls to a boy from his window, to ask what day it is. The boy is surprised by the questions as it is Christmas Day. Scrooge pays the boy to go to the poulterer (like a butcher but specializes in poultry) and order the prize turkey for Bob Cratchit. Out in the street he meets one of the gentlemen he earlier sent away. He whispers to him, but the reader guesses that he promises to give a lot of money to the charity, as the gentlemen doubts whether he is serious. Scrooge explains that his donation includes "a great many back-payments".








Hope this helps!