Scrooge (1970 film)

Scrooge is a 1970 Technicolor musical film adaptation in Panavision 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 films 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 awardwinning motion picture is a faithful musical retelling of the original. The film received limited praise, but Albert Finney won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a MusicalComedy in 1971.

Ebenezer Scrooge Albert Finney is a coldhearted 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 Mary Peach 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 Rodgers, 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.Back home, Scrooge notices that the image of his late partner Jacob Marley Alec Guinness appears in the doorknocker, followed by a hearse passing him up the stairs. While eating some soup, Scrooge hears bells ring before the ghost of Marley arrives in person covered in chains. Scrooge thinks it is just a hoax, but sees reason after Marley frightens him. Marley tells Scrooge he wears the chain he made with the sins he committed while alive on Earth and tells Scrooge he is close to suffering the same fate as him. After Marley shows Scrooge other ghosts suffering the same fate, he returns him home and tells him he will be haunted by three more spirits and that the first will call at one oclock. ........

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