A Christmas Carol (1938 film)

A Christmas Carol is a 1938 American film adaptation of Charles Dickenss 1843 novelette of the same name, starring Reginald Owen as Ebenezer Scrooge, an elderly miser who learns the error of his ways on Christmas Eve after visitations by four spirits.

At home, Scrooge is confronted by the ghost of his sevenyearsdeceased partner, Jacob Marley, who in his life was also mean and greedy. As a result, he may not rest in peace but his spirit must roam and is forced to carry a chain as a reminder of all the deeds he did in his life instead of helping others. He tells Scrooge he will be haunted by three spirits and to expect the first at one in the morning.As Marley warned, the Ghost of Christmas Past shows Scrooge his youthful years. Scrooge is shown his unhappiness when he was left to spend the holidays alone at school, and his joy when his sister, Fan, came to take him home for Christmas. The spirit reminds Scrooge that Fan, dead for some years, is the mother of his nephew. Scrooge is then shown when he worked for Fezziwig, who was a cheerful and generous employer, in contrast to the kind of employer that Scrooge himself became. ........

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