Scrooge (1935)

19351h 18mdir. Henry EdwardsUnited Kingdomdrama filmfantasy film

With Seymour Hicks, Donald Calthrop, Mary Glynne, Garry Marsh, Oscar Asche, Marie Ney, C.V. France

Directed by Henry Edwards

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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, a miser 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 si

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