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Scrooge

Charles Dickens' Joyous Holliday Classic!

7.4(387)19511h 26m4

Ebenezer Scrooge malcontentedly shuffles through life as a cruel, miserly businessman, until he is visited by three spirits on Christmas Eve who show him how his unhappy childhood and adult behavior has left him a selfish, lonely old man.

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Status
Released
Budget
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Box office
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Language
English
  • london, england
  • based on novel or book
  • businessman
  • holiday
  • greed
  • supernatural
  • redemption
  • business ethics
  • victorian england
  • money
  • black and white
  • miser

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United Kingdom

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Release dates

  • United StatesUS

    • PremiereNRTV rating: TV-G28 Nov 1951
  • United KingdomGB

    • PremiereU31 Oct 1951
    • TheatricalU30 Nov 1951
  • AustraliaAU

    • Theatrical14 Dec 1951
  • GermanyDE

    • TV624 Dec 1966
  • NetherlandsNL

    • Physical6DVD12 Nov 2008
    • Physical6Blu ray23 Nov 2011
  • PortugalPT

    • Theatrical5 Jan 1956
  • RussiaRU

    • Physical12+DVD5 Aug 2001

Frequently asked questions

Scrooge was released on 30 November 1951.

Audience reviews

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    r96sk

    12/20/2020

    8/10

    My first time watching this adaptation of Charles Dickens' work - thoroughly enjoyed it! I've previously only watched the Disney animated film and the 2019 television miniseries with Guy Pearce. I also like both of those, they each have things that are inferior and superior to this 1951 film. Alastair Sim is the best Ebenezer Scrooge of the three, I loved watching him from start-to-finish. Sim's facial expressi…

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    Peter McGinn

    12/26/2020

    10/10

    I read a review by a critic which stated this is the best adaptation of the oh so familiar story of Charles Dickens’ Scrooge. Not because of advanced production value or cutting edge special effects. In fact, this movie is definitely low tech, being from 1952 as it is. But now I agree with that assessment. There are three elements that in my mind elevate this production to the top of the pile. The first is the s…

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    CinemaSerf

    12/18/2024

    8/10

    Alastair Sim is in his element here as the curmudgeonly miser who routinely spends his Christmas alone counting his fortune. Luckily for him, "Scrooge" receives a visit from his late but not so lamented partner "Marley" (Michael Hordern) who warns him that he is to receive three visitors this cold and snowy Christmas morning. These ghosts are to show him was has happened, is happening and might well happen if he does…

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