Geronimo1967
Its pretty nigh impossible to condense this Dickens story into twenty minutes, but I think that they have made quite a decent fist of it here as Charles Rock takes on the role of the miserly Scrooge. Its a bitterly cold Christmas Eve and poor old Cratchit (George Bellamy) cant even enjoy the carol singers outside of the window but his curmudgeonly boss chases them away. His journey home, via the inn for some unseasonal victuals, takes Scrooge to his chilly house where he encounters an apparition. The first of four, as it happens, with the others reminding him of his past, suggesting he appreciates his present and finally foretelling his future. Now on this point Ill admit to being no cinema historian, but I thought the way the production pr...