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Scrooge

1951 · 86 min

A shadowy Victorian ghost story that slowly thaws into a glowing, tearful celebration of human kindness.

Tagline
Charles Dickens' Joyous Holliday Classic!
Overview
Ebenezer Scrooge malcontentedly shuffles through life as a cruel, miserly businessman, until he is visited by three spirits on Christmas Eve who show him how his unhappy childhood and adult behavior has left him a selfish, lonely old man.

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How it feels

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Tone
  • warmstrength 3 of 3
  • darkstrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • redemption
  • greed
  • isolation
  • family
  • death
Places
  • big city
  • home
Era
period
Audience
family
Form
  • nonlinear
  • true story
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language none
  • Violence none
  • Sex none
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror3
Humour4
Realism6
Romance3
Tension4
Darkness5
Complexity5
Emotional weight8

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Details

Genres
fantasy, drama
Directed by
Brian Desmond Hurst
Written by
Noel Langley
Starring
Alastair Sim, Mervyn Johns, Glyn Dearman, George Cole, Brian Worth, Michael Hordern, Kathleen Harrison, Rona Anderson
Music
Richard Addinsell
Cinematography
C.M. Pennington-Richards
Runtime
86 min
Country
United Kingdom
Languages
English

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