Yuletide Movies: Rating the Best 'Christmas Carol'

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By Joseph Pronechen/National Catholic Register

This year marks the 180th anniversary of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. No telling how many millions of times it has been read since those first 6,000 copies sold out in five days, or how many times over the years people have watched the different films.

Do you have a favorite version? A quintessential Scrooge?

The Register offers its take on the cinematic adaptations.

Sim as Scrooge: For me, the standard bearer, the golden benchmark, is the 1951 classic A Christmas Carol, starring Alastair Sim, who flawlessly brings the old miser Scrooge to life, from the bottom of his bad-tempered, irascible character to the pinnacle of his repentant and ultimately joyful transformation. Sim never slips into a caricature. Quite believably, he keeps a humanity about Scrooge, from the cold-hearted beginning to the gradual change and repentance to the reborn man of warmth and generosity making up for his lost time.

Full story: https://www.ncregister.com/features/best-christmas-carol-movies

[Auggie]

1. Alastair Sim! No doubt about it.