Scrooge (1935)
November 26, 1935Release Date
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Cast & Crew.
Seymour Hicks
Ebenezer Scrooge
Donald Calthrop
Bob Cratchit
Robert Cochran
Fred
Mary Glynne
Belle
Oscar Asche
Spirit of Christmas Present
Athene Seyler
Scrooge's Charwoman
Mary Lawson
Poor Man's Wife
Maurice Evans
Poor Man
Garry Marsh
Belle's Husband
Eve Gray
Fred's Wife
Barbara Everest
Mrs. Cratchit
Henry Edwards
Director
Morris Harvey
Poulterer with Prize Turkey
Charles Dickens
Writer
Philip Frost
Tiny Tim
D.J. Williams
Undertaker
H. Fowler Mear
Writer
Margaret Yarde
Scrooge's Laundress
Julius Hagen
Producer
Hugh E. Wright
Old Joe
W.L. Trytel
Composer
Sydney Blythe
Cinematographer
Charles Carson
Middlemark
Hubert Harben
Worthington
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Details.
Release DateNovember 26, 1935
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 18m
Content RatingNR
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Scrooge is a 1935 British Christmas fantasy film directed by Henry Edwards and starring Seymour Hicks, Donald Calthrop and Robert Cochran. The film was released by Twickenham Film Studios and has since entered the public domain. It was the first sound film of feature length to adapt the Charles Dickens novella A Christmas Carol, and it was the second cinematic adaptation of the story to use sound, following a now-lost 1928 short subject adaptation of the story. Hicks stars as Ebenezer Scrooge, the skinflint who hates Christmas and is visited by a succession of ghosts on Christmas Eve. Hicks had previously played the role of Scrooge on the stage regularly, starting in 1901, and in a 1913 British silent film version.
Critical reception to Scrooge has been generally positive over the years. Praise has focused on the film's atmosphere, which has been compared to works of German expressionism, and on the performance of Hicks in the title role. Some reviews have criticised the film for its technical limitations and for heavily abbreviating Scrooge's backstory.
The film was originally released in black-and-white. A restoration of the film was released on DVD by Image Entertainment in 2002, and a colourised version of the film was released by Legendary Films in 2018.