A Christmas Carol
by Hugh Harman, Edwin L. Marin
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Actor: Barry MacKay, Gene Lockhart, Kathleen Lockhart, Reginald Owen, Terry KilburnDirector: Edwin L. Marin, Hugh Harman
Brand: Warner Brothers
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 1.0; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 69 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-11-08
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Warner Home Video
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- Aic that's as integral a part of Christmas as lighted trees and mistletoe. Reginald Owen and Gene Lockhart star in this rewarding holiday treat.Running Time: 69 min. Format: DVD MOVIE Genre:?DRAMA Rating:?NR Age:?012569677159 UPC:?012569677159 Manufacturer No:?67715
Movie Reviews of A Christmas Carol
Movie Review: Guess Who's Coming To Dinner. It's Uncle Ebenezer!
Summary: 4 Stars
This 1938 film rendition of Dickens' classic is not my favorite version (Alastair Sim does it better in 1951), but this version has a charm of it's own.
Reginald Owen plays Scrooge. Gene Lockhart plays Bob Cratchit; his real-life wife Kathleen plays his movie wife, and June Lockhart plays one of their daughters. Ann Rutherford plays an absurdly sexy Ghost of Christmas Past.
The story needs no recounting (but I will anyway). Nasty old Scrooge treats all the world like dirt until he's visited by the enchained ghost of his dead business partner, Jacob Marley (Leo G. Carroll) whose face first appears in the midst of Scrooge's demonic doorknocker ("Oh look! A Leo G. Carroll doorknocker! He won it in a contest, you know"). Marley warns Scrooge to mend his ways or suffer the same miserable eternal fate. Scrooge "Bah! Humbug!"s him, but is then visited by the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future who review his life with him.
Scrooge does mend his ways, but in this version he changes so fast from creep to christian that there's the scent of something insincere about it. The insincerity is reinforced because (quite inexplicably) the scriptwriters drop Dickens' wonderful coda about how well old Ebenezer Scrooge kept Christmas year 'round thereafter. I had the feeling Scrooge would be in Christmas rehab next December.
Still, it's Dickens.
Summary of A Christmas Carol
A classic that's as integral a part of Christmas as lighted trees and mistletoe. Reginald Owen and Gene Lockhart star in this rewarding holiday treat.This 1938 MGM version of the Dickens classic is not the most rewarding of the various adaptations (that honor goes to Biran Desmond Hurst's 1951 film, starring Alistair Sim), but it has a strong if narrow performance by Reginald Owen as the miser Ebenezer Scrooge. Directed by Edward L. Marin, the movie is stiffer and less imaginative than it ought to be, but there are some compensations in the supporting cast, including Leo G. Carroll, and the film debut of little June Lockhart. --Tom Keogh
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