My choice for the SEPTEMBER edition (Nr 9 of 12) of the…
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My choice for the SEPTEMBER edition (Nr 9 of 12) of the #HumpdayAndChill event, hosted by
Scrooge (released as A Christmas Carol in the United States), a 1951 British film based on the 1843 novella A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens . It stars Alastair Sim as Ebenezer Scrooge … and features Michael Hordern , Kathleen Harrison , George Cole , Hermione Baddeley , Mervyn Johns , Clifford Mollison , Jack Warner , Ernest Thesiger and Patrick Macnee ...
On release, the movie was largely ignored by critics… but attracted a cult following on television and subsequent reviews have been significantly more positive, with many critics considering it one of the best adaptions of the novel, with general praise for the performances, particularly Sim's portrayal of Scrooge. - Wikipedia
Most people are familiar with the story of truculent, irascible miser Ebenezer Scrooge who is visited by the ghosts of Christmas Past, Christmas Present and Christmas Future. It is a story of salvation, redemption and renewal and a reminder that goodwill is not seasonal but life-long. Those in a position to contribute positively to others should do so.
I grew up watching movies featuring Alistair Sim. He played many comedic roles, but behind the deadpan veneer, he was a great actor, cast perfectly as Ebenezer Scrooge.
I’d recommend Scrooge (1951) to everyone because it is an excellent production but also to those who have not read Dickens’ A Christmas Carol .
Scrooge (released as A Christmas Carol in the United States), a 1951 British film based on the 1843 novella A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens . It stars Alastair Sim as Ebenezer Scrooge … and features Michael Hordern , Kathleen Harrison , George Cole , Hermione Baddeley , Mervyn Johns , Clifford Mollison , Jack Warner , Ernest Thesiger and Patrick Macnee ...
On release, the movie was largely ignored by critics… but attracted a cult following on television and subsequent reviews have been significantly more positive, with many critics considering it one of the best adaptions of the novel, with general praise for the performances, particularly Sim's portrayal of Scrooge. - Wikipedia
Most people are familiar with the story of truculent, irascible miser Ebenezer Scrooge who is visited by the ghosts of Christmas Past, Christmas Present and Christmas Future. It is a story of salvation, redemption and renewal and a reminder that goodwill is not seasonal but life-long. Those in a position to contribute positively to others should do so.
I grew up watching movies featuring Alistair Sim. He played many comedic roles, but behind the deadpan veneer, he was a great actor, cast perfectly as Ebenezer Scrooge.
I’d recommend Scrooge (1951) to everyone because it is an excellent production but also to those who have not read Dickens’ A Christmas Carol .
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That 1951 Scrooge adaptation sounds like a perfect pick for the event—what draws you to Alastair Sim's version over others?
Sim and his family guarded their privacy carefully. He seldom gave press interviews and refused autographs. In his view, the public's interest in him should be solely confined to his stage or screen performances. In a rare interview with the magazine Focus on Film he said, "I stand or fall in my profession by the public's judgement of my performances. No amount of publicity can dampen a good one or gloss over a bad one."
"Although there will always be dispute over which is Alastair Sim's finest screen performance, there's little doubt as to which is the best known. His 1951 characterisation of Charles Dickens' notorious curmudgeon Ebenezer Scrooge is ... generally regarded as definitive." - American critic Greg Ferrara.
"The gold standard by which all the other versions must be judged: the 1951 film in which Alastair Sim, as Scrooge, gives the performance of his career."- John Corry, The American Spectator , 2022.
In the UK, Sim was celebrated for other film roles: in The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , Michael Gilbert identifies Sim's harassed headmaster in The Happiest Days of Your Life as "the fondest memory for many" and in 2005, Michael Brooke wrote in the British Film Institute 's Sight and Sound , "The St Trinian's [comedy/farce] films may be the first we think of, but Alastair Sim was a vastly versatile actor without whom the landscape of British cinema's heyday would be a less joyful place." Brooke describes Sim's Scrooge as the "unimpeachably definitive" cinema portrayal.
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"Although there will always be dispute over which is Alastair Sim's finest screen performance, there's little doubt as to which is the best known. His 1951 characterisation of Charles Dickens' notorious curmudgeon Ebenezer Scrooge is ... generally regarded as definitive." - American critic Greg Ferrara.
"The gold standard by which all the other versions must be judged: the 1951 film in which Alastair Sim, as Scrooge, gives the performance of his career."- John Corry, The American Spectator , 2022.
In the UK, Sim was celebrated for other film roles: in The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , Michael Gilbert identifies Sim's harassed headmaster in The Happiest Days of Your Life as "the fondest memory for many" and in 2005, Michael Brooke wrote in the British Film Institute 's Sight and Sound , "The St Trinian's [comedy/farce] films may be the first we think of, but Alastair Sim was a vastly versatile actor without whom the landscape of British cinema's heyday would be a less joyful place." Brooke describes Sim's Scrooge as the "unimpeachably definitive" cinema portrayal.
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