{"id":38072,"date":"2024-12-29T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-29T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=38072"},"modified":"2024-12-28T18:32:40","modified_gmt":"2024-12-28T23:32:40","slug":"scrooge-aka-a-christmas-carol-1951-starring-alistar-sim-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=38072","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Scrooge&#8221; aka &#8220;A Christmas Carol&#8221; (1951) starring Alistar Sim \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2024\/z122924zview_scrooge.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"741\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><i>Scrooge <\/i><\/strong>aka<i><\/i><strong><i> A Christmas Carol <\/i>(1951)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Director: \u00a0<strong>Brian Desmond Hurst<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: \u00a0<strong>Noel Langley <\/strong>based on <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3VXv8mO\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A CHRISTMAS CAROL<\/a> by <strong>Charles Dickens<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Alastair Sim, Kathleen Harrison, Mervyn Johns, Hermione Baddeley, Michael Hordern, Francis De Wolff, Miles Malleson <\/strong>and <strong>Ernest Thesiger<\/strong><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline: <em>One of the world&#8217;s most loved character actors, Alastair Sim, in a masterful portrayal of one of the world&#8217;s best loved characters, Scrooge!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Plot&#8230;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ebenezer Scrooge is an old, cheap businessman whose only joy in life is making money.\u00a0 He doesn&#8217;t pay his workers much and never donates to charity.\u00a0 Scrooge alienates family members and see holidays as a way for business to make more money.\u00a0 But they won&#8217;t get his!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On Christmas Eve Scrooge is visited by a ghost who tells him that he will later be visited by three ghosts: the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future.\u00a0 Scrooge will be shown his life and learn that unless he changes, the afterlife won&#8217;t be paradise.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The films original title was <em>Scrooge<\/em>.\u00a0 When it came to the US, it was retitled as <em>A Christmas Carol<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: inherit; color: initial;\"><strong><em><i>Scrooge <\/i><\/em><\/strong>aka<strong><em><i> A Christmas Carol <\/i>(1951) <\/em><\/strong>rates 4 of 5 stars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_b.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2024\/z122924zview_scrooge2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"327\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scrooge aka A Christmas Carol (1951) Director: \u00a0Brian Desmond Hurst Screenplay: \u00a0Noel Langley based on A CHRISTMAS CAROL by Charles<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,17,54,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-celebs","category-movies","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38072"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38073,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38072\/revisions\/38073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}