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Titolo originale: Scrooge
Regia: Brian Desmond Hurst |
Anno: 1951
Origine: United Kingdom |
Generi: Fantasy Dramma
Tag: london, england | based on novel or book | businessman | holiday | greed | supernatural | redemption | business ethics | victorian england | money | black and white | miser | ghost | christmas | christmas eve |
Cast: Alastair Sim | Mervyn Johns | Glyn Dearman | George Cole | Brian Worth | Michael Hordern | Kathleen Harrison | Rona Anderson | Jack Warner | Michael Dolan | Francis de Wolff | Carol Marsh | Hermione Baddeley | John Charlesworth | Miles Malleson | Ernest Thesiger | Olga Edwardes | Roddy Hughes | Hattie Jacques | Eleanor Summerfield | Louise Hampton | Czeslaw Konarski | Eliot Makeham | Peter Bull | Douglas Muir | Noel Howlett | Fred Johnson | Henry Hewitt | Hugh Dempster | David Hannaford | Maire O'Neill | Richard Pearson | Patrick Macnee | Clifford Mollison | Moiya Kelly | Tony Wager | Teresa Derrington | Vi Kaley | Lualle Kemp | Catherine Leach | Derek Stephens | Tony Wager | Ian Wilson |

A Londra vive un uomo considerato il più avaro e più cinico di tutti: Ebenezer Scrooge. A causa della sua ossessione per il guadagno e per l'oro il suo impiegato Bob Cratchit vive in umilissime condizioni economiche ed ha un figlio con un piede nella fossa. Una sera, la vigilia di Natale, Scrooge congeda come al solito Cratchit e si avvia verso casa sua. Entrato comincerà per il vecchio un viaggio ultraterreno di profonda conversione spirituale per redimersi dai suoi peccati, cominciando dalla sua infanzia fino all'anno presente. Alla fine Ebenezer Scrooge diventerà un altro uomo, più buono e più felice della vita.

Approfondimenti

Michael Hordern was only 39 years old during filming. D
Changes to the screenplay from the Charles Dickens book were made, mostly in the Christmas Past sequ [...] D
According to the Ghost of Christmas Past (Michael Dolan), Ebenezer Scrooge (Alastair Sim) had been p [...] D
At least two cast members do double duty in this film: Mervyn Johns, who plays Bob Cratchit, is also [...] D
Scrooge promises Mrs. Dilber to raise her salary to 10 shillings a week. This would be the equivalen [...] D
The opening (and closing) credits show that "Scrooge" is the original name of this British movie, an [...] D
Scrooge gives Mrs. Dilber a guinea as a Christmas present. The guinea had been demonetized in 1816 w [...] D
Scrooge asks if the treadmills are no longer in use. Concerned with the employment of criminals and [...] D
In one of her earliest film roles, Hattie Jacques appears as Mrs Fezziwig. Jacques of course wo [...] D
During Christmas Yet to Come, Peter Cratchit (John Charlesworth) is reading Psalm 91. For some reaso [...] D
Sir Michael Hordern was not on-set when the "Marley's Ghost" segment was filmed. He was added later [...] D
Fezziwig's warehouse sign says that it was established in 1766. At the time of the story that would [...] D
Although the word "Scrooge" means a stingy person now, in Charles Dickens' time, the word was a slan [...] D
Although Scrooge redeems himself, his deeds in the past cannot be undone, such as: not respecting hi [...] D
The exterior shot of Scrooge & Marley's office, Cathedral St, Southwark, is the same one used for th [...] D
Composer Richard Addinsell uses English folk songs as recurring themes: "Barbara Allen" for the char [...] D
Marley's Ghost can be seen near the center of the mass of tormented spirits after he shows them to S [...] D
The song that Mr. Jorkin whistles after offering Ebenezer Scrooge a job is "The Lincolnshire Poacher [...] D
Just after Jacob Marley dies, the Ghost of Christmas Past calls Ebenezer Scrooge a "'squeezing, wren [...] D
Alastair Sim (Ebenezer Scrooge) and Michael Hordern (Jacob Marley) later reprised their roles in Un [...] D
In the book, the Spirit of Christmas Past carries an extinguisher, a small funnel which was used to [...] D
Although this movie is widely regarded as the best version of Charles Dickens' story, it is the only [...] D
Ebenezer means "Rock of Help" and is a Biblical place-name. It is explained in 1 Samuel 7:12 as mark [...] D
The name of the character "Mr. Jorkin" was taken from the character "Mr. Jorkins" in "David Copperfi [...] D
Patrick Macnee (Young Marley) and George Cole (Young Scrooge) both died in the summer of 2015: Macne [...] D
A Christmas Carol and Oliver Twist are among the most frequently filmed Charles Dickens stories, hav [...] D
The young woman who, as Fred's maid, gives Scrooge silent encouragement to enter the parlor, is Tere [...] D
In this movie, Mervyn Johns played Bob Cratchit to Hermione Baddeley's Mrs. Cratchit. In Mary Poppin [...] D
In this film, Ebenezer Scrooge (Alastair Sim) does not mention that every fool wishing a "Merry Chri [...] D
Hermione Baddeley and Carol Marsh appeared together in Brighton Rock (1947). D
Alastair Sim's performance as Ebenezer Scrooge made David Jason a huge fan of the man. Jason conside [...] D
The word "humbug" provides insight into Ebenezer Scrooge's hatred of Christmas, as it describes dece [...] D
The lettering on Ebenezer Scrooge's office door is never seen from the front or in close-up. It read [...] D
Glyn Dearman was widely felt to be too tall to play Tiny Tim. D
The film was shot in the summer of 1951. All of the snow, both in the studio and at locations, was f [...] D
Scrooge was likely based on a real person named John Meggot (born John Elwes), who was a local celeb [...] D
Right after Scrooge is told that Marley is dying, he is seen in his office through the windowed door [...] D
Glyn Dearman (Tiny Tim) became a radio drama producer and, in 1990, produced "A Christmas Carol" for [...] D
The street in the scene where Ebenezer Scrooge meets the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come is the same [...] D
The video versions of the colorized movie include introduction and closing segments filmed by Patric [...] D
The role of Fezziwig's lad (who appears twice in the movie with a short line each time) was played b [...] D