Hugo Butler (1914–1968)

The script takes tremendous liberties with Dicken's story, adding quite a few extraneous scenes and completely altering the ending for a "grand finale", but stays true to the spirit. Scrooge's transformation is actually somewhat more believable here, and I like this Marley (Carrol) the best - not so histrionic as other versions.
The production is more like a stage play transferred to screen than a modern movie, with the special effects possible at the time being quite "cutting edge" I suspect.

Parents sell their boy's dog, who is not having it.

1/4 (Bad).

Was the plan to make Lassie come across as charismatic by having everyone in the movie act as badly as they possibly could? Or is this dialog just impossible to pull off?

(Apr. 2022)

On Christmas Eve, an old miser named Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by the spirit of his former partner, Jacob Marley. The deceased partner was in his lifetime as mean and miserly as Scrooge is now and he warns him to change his ways or face the consequences in the afterlife. Scrooge dismisses the apparition but the first of the three ghosts, the Ghost of Christmas Past, visits as promised. Scrooge sees those events in his past life, both happy and sad, that forged his character. The second show more spirit, the Ghost of Christmas Present, shows him how many currently celebrate Christmas. The Ghost of Christmas yet to Come shows him how he will be remembered once he is gone. To his delight, the spirits complete their visits in one night giving him the opportunity to mend his ways. Written by garykmcd show less

This is a very important book for those who want to know what to do on a desert island. It is also very good about shipwrecks and voyages.

(Arthur Ransome, 'Books about lakes and pirates'; reproduced in Christina Hardyment, Arthur Ransome & Captain Flint's trunk, p. 220).