You can buy the complete DVD from www. It was the first sound version of the Charles Dickens classic A Christmas Carol, not counting a 1. Hicks had played the role of Scrooge on the stage many times beginning in 1. British silent film version. The 1. 93. 5 film differs from all other versions of the story in one significant way - most of the ghosts, including that of Jacob Marley, are not actually shown onscreen, although their voices are heard. Only the Ghost of Christmas Present (Oscar Asche) is actually seen in full figure - the Ghost of Christmas Past is a mere shape with no discernible facial features, Marley's Ghost is seen only briefly as a face on the door knocker, and the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come is just an outstretched pointing finger. Why the film was made this way remains unclear; it is obviously not because British filmmakers could not achieve special effects, since we do see Marley's face superimposed on Scrooge's door knocker. Another aspect making this film different from other versions of the story is that Seymour Hicks plays both the old and young Scrooge, rather straining the credulity of the audience, since by this time, the sixty- four year old actor was visibly too aged to convincingly play a young man. Maurice Evans appears briefly as a man harassed by Scrooge to pay his debts. Donald Calthrop portrays a Bob Cratchit who bears an uncanny physical resemblance to John Leech's illustrations of the character in the original 1. Directed by Henry Edwards, produced by Julius Hagen, written by H. Fowler Mear. Charles Dickens (novel), starring Sir Seymour Hicks, Donald Calthrop, Robert Cochran, Mary Glynne, Garry Marsh, Oscar Asche, Marie Ney and C. V. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.. Getting back to Old Scrooge, though it came out just three years after the Edison Studios version it is light-years ahead of that adaptation in terms of its.Download Christmas Carol or Scrooge 1913 torrent from movies category on Isohunt. Torrent hash: 2afd6fa1970c64d0a0fff52850fc9a44791208ad. Charles Dickens Christmas Carol and Scrooge: featured CED's for Fall 2002 at the CED Magic web site. Cold-hearted miser Ebenezer Scrooge receives a ghostly visitation and is persuaded to repent his selfish ways. The shorter film, more typical in length for its time. La storia di Ebenezer Scrooge, avaro finanziere londinese,
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