Kattiera Nana I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

Reptileenbu Did you people see the same film I saw?

Contentar Best movie of this year hands down!

Doomtomylo a film so unique, intoxicating and bizarre that it not only demands another viewing, but is also forgivable as a satirical comedy where the jokes eventually take the back seat.

christmasfever I love this version. I have seen almost every variation of Charles Dickens Classic Tale. Some of course are great but many of the Television movies that do a twist on this story never really capture what this films has and that is "PLENTY OF Christmas SPIRIT" and is cast with good actors. Nobody here is CW material.We all know the story but this version did help set the standard and many films since this have used it as a template. The changes from the book that this film did was smart WHICH IS WHY the films that followed made the same change. This film should be seen on a very cold December Night with a nice hot cup of Hot Chocolate. It runs 69 Minutes and trust me it is the best version out there.

mike48128 Where is Fezziwigs' party? Scrooge and Belle's break-up? Fen's childbirth? All missing from this fast-paced version of the all too familiar story. Leo G. Carroll does a fine job as Marley's ghost. Some humorous scenes including snowball fights and an ice "slide" in front of the church. Just as Scrooge's past life starts to bog-down, Scrooge makes blonde Ann Rutherford (dressed in a white flowing gown with a golden tiara) disappear! A very short past! Christmas present is a bit better. A church scene with Fred and his fiancé and Bob Cratchit's family replaces the miners singing in the earth quite nicely. A wonderful dinner with Bob and family. The grim reaper future ghost is mute here, not that scary at all. The ending is done quite nicely with everybody (Fred and Scrooge, etc.) all stopping by at Bob's house. Yes, Scrooge gives to the poor, Bob gets a raise, and Fred becomes Scrooge's partner. Of course we all know that Tiny Tim will be alright too! A great cast including 3 Lockharts and Reginald Owen plays a wonderful Scrooge. Only 69 minutes. Very short and sweet and well-worth your time. Others will point out the other "missing scenes" but it all makes for a very pleasant version that won't give the little ones bad dreams.

cricket crockett . . . as the American film production company MGM finds a way to put in all those beloved scenes from British novelist Charles Dickens' A CHR!STMAS CAROL that their British counterpart had left out in their nine-minute LONGER version just three years earlier. Where the British flick had lavished its middle third on a Victorian fest for Queen Vicky NOT in the original story, this much more faithful American adaptation dances through the familiar tale, even finding time for product placement in giving Scrooge's dwelling the iconic MGM lion logo for door knockers. One could quibble that the rotund Gene Lockhart makes for a far too well-fed Bob Cratchit, especially compared to Scrooge's clerk in the 1935 rendition, played by the appropriately thin Donald Calthrop. But setting that aside, a balding Reginald Owen here is a far more charismatic miser than the wildly white-haired Seymour Hicks was there. Plus, I think this is the first variation of CHR!STMAS CAROL in which Crachit knocks off Scrooge's top hat with a snowball!

atinder WOW, My first ever movie from the 30's , I never thought I would ever see a movie from 30s This movie version felt bit more different then 1951, I felt there were more fun parts in this movie and very good feel to the movie, while you are you feeling kinda of happy and cheerfully As-well As I only seem the 1951 version for the first time, a few weeks ago, in still fresh in my head, I was comparing both parts.I found scrooge to be a bit more nasty at the start of the movie, as movie goes, I don't feel think it was the right actor who played Scooge in 1951 version. Near the end of the movie, I think it was going little over the top, it went a bit too Jolly. I going to give this movie 7 out of 10, not as good as 1951. Might be seeing 1935 version later,