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- 1970
- G
- National General Pictures
- 1 h 53 m
- 1970
- G
- National General Pictures
- 1 h 53 m
Summary A musical retelling of Charles Dickens' classic novel about an old bitter miser taken on a journey of self-redemption, courtesy of several mysterious Christmas apparitions.
Directed By: Ronald Neame
Written By: Charles Dickens, Leslie Bricusse
- 1970
- G
- National General Pictures
- 1 h 53 m
- 1970
- G
- National General Pictures
- 1 h 53 m
Scrooge
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Summary A musical retelling of Charles Dickens' classic novel about an old bitter miser taken on a journey of self-redemption, courtesy of several mysterious Christmas apparitions.
Directed By: Ronald Neame
Written By: Charles Dickens, Leslie Bricusse
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 8 Critic Reviews
58
50% Positive
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
50% Mixed
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0% Negative
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Albert Finney's remarkable performance in the title role; executive producer Leslie Bricusse's fluid adaptation of the Charles Dickens classic, A Christmas Carol, plus his unobtrusive complementary music and lyrics; and Ronald Neame's delicately controlled direction which conveys, but does not force, all the inherent warmth, humor and sentimentality.
Director Ronald Neame's well-paced film captures the period beautifully, and the acting is superb, with Finney and Alec Guinness, as Marley's ghost, real standouts.
Alec Guinness contributes a Marley wrapped in chains; the Christmas turkey weighs at least 40 pounds; Tiny Tim is appropriately tiny, and Scrooge reforms himself with style. What more could you want?
It is absurd, sentimental, pretty, never quite as funny as it intends to be, but quite acceptable, if only as a seasonal ritual.
[Finney] plays Scrooge less like a Dickens character and more like that crooked man who walked a crooked mile, of Mother Goose nursery rhyme fame. But it’s fun to see him cut a rug at Scrooge’s own funeral to the tune of Leslie Bricusse’s Thank You Very Much, the great show-stopping tune of this otherwise ho-ho-hum musical.
Innocuous musical version of A Christmas Carol, starring Albert Finney looking glum. The Leslie Bricusse music is so forgettable that your mind flushes it away while you're hearing it.
A misbegotten musical adaptation of Dickens' much too perennial tale, featuring songs by Leslie Bricusse that are not only anaemic but piffling in their up-front relevance.
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Awards
Golden Globes, USA
• 1 Win & 5 Nominations
Academy Awards, USA
• 4 Nominations
BAFTA Awards
• 1 Nomination
