This is one of my favourite Christmas films and well worth catching at the cinema instead of on Channel 5 each year on Christmas Eve when they show it in the dreadful colourised version.
This film also screens at the Greenwich Picturehouse on 8 December, the Hackney Picturehouse on 11 December and at BFI Southbank on 8 December.
Time Out review:
'Surprisingly, there isn't a film version of the Dickens novella which merits the imprimatur 'classic'. The Muppets had a good stab at it, and Bill Murray was well cast in the otherwise scattershot Scrooged. On the plus side, this version is cast like an engraved illustration: Thesiger, Johns, Hordern, Harrison, Malleson, Baddeley and, above all, the splendidly aloof Alistair Sim, who feasts on Dickens' best lines ('I expect you want the whole day off tomorrow?'), greets each new ghost with a weary shiver, and handles his giddy rebirth with aplomb.'
Tom Charity
Here (and above) is the trailer.
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