Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the dire fate that awaits him if he does not change his ways. Scrooge is faced with his own story of growing bitterness and meanness, and must decide what his own future will hold: death or redemption.
Directed by Edwin L. Marin
based on novel or book
clerk
holiday
redemption
little boy
apparition
black and white
spirit
goose
celebration
miser
ghost
christmas spirit
christmas
what if
bookkeeper
generosity
lame child
sickly boy
christmas eve
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Cast
Reginald Owen
Ebenezer Scrooge
Gene Lockhart
Bob Cratchit
Terry Kilburn
'Tiny Tim' Cratchit
Barry MacKay
Scrooge's Nephew Fred
Lynne Carver
Fred's Fiancee Bess
Leo G. Carroll
Marley's Ghost
Ann Rutherford
Spirit of Christmas Past
Lionel Braham
Spirit of Christmas Present
Ronald Sinclair
Young Ebenezer
Kathleen Lockhart
Mrs. Cratchit
Bunny Beatty
Martha Cratchit
June Lockhart
Belinda Cratchit (uncredited)
Crew
Edwin L. Marin
Director
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Producer
Charles Dickens
Novel
Franz Waxman
Music
Cedric Gibbons
Art Direction
Edwin B. Willis
Set Decoration
Popular Reviews
54 reviews
Sam Bam
5.0★ · 12/27/25
Jim Carrey Scrooge solos
Jim Carrey Scrooge solos
Bearman08
5.0★ · 12/25/25
A very lackluster interpretation of the story though it was one of the first. It’s quick pacing makes it unable to hit the emotional beats that many later iterations are able to with only ten or twenty more minutes.
A very lackluster interpretation of the story though it was one of the first. It’s quick pacing makes it unable to hit the emotional beats that many later iterations are able to with only ten or twenty more minutes.
