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A truly memorable and magnificent animated rendition of Charles Dickens' perennial holiday classic.
Here is the Charles Dickens classic presented in unique, spellbinding animation. The colorful images, combined with eloquent narration by Michael Redgrave and the voice of the original Mr. Scrooge, Alastair Sim, make this version of the Victorian Christmas story appealing to both young and old alike. Ebenezer Scrooge and the Cratchits have never been as lively.
Narrated by Michael Redgrave with Alastair Sim as the voice of Scrooge. Executive producer, Chuck Jones. Director, Richard Williams (The Thief and the Cobbler, Who Framed Roger Rabbit).
Cast:
Michael Redgrave...Narrator
Alastair Sim...Ebenezer Scrooge
Melvyn Hayes...Bob Cratchit
Michael Hordern...Jacob Marley
Diana Quick...Ghost of Christmas Past
Felix Felton...Ghost of Christmas Present
David Tate...Fred/Young Scrooge
Paul Whitsun-Jones...Charity Man/Fezziweg/Old Joe
Annie West...Belle
Joan Sims...Mrs. Cratchit
Mary Ellen Ray...Mrs. Dilber
Alexander Williams...Tiny Tim (Uncredited)
Here is the Charles Dickens classic presented in unique, spellbinding animation. The colorful images, combined with eloquent narration by Michael Redgrave and the voice of the original Mr. Scrooge, Alastair Sim, make this version of the Victorian Christmas story appealing to both young and old alike. Ebenezer Scrooge and the Cratchits have never been as lively.
Narrated by Michael Redgrave with Alastair Sim as the voice of Scrooge. Executive producer, Chuck Jones. Director, Richard Williams (The Thief and the Cobbler, Who Framed Roger Rabbit).
Cast:
Michael Redgrave...Narrator
Alastair Sim...Ebenezer Scrooge
Melvyn Hayes...Bob Cratchit
Michael Hordern...Jacob Marley
Diana Quick...Ghost of Christmas Past
Felix Felton...Ghost of Christmas Present
David Tate...Fred/Young Scrooge
Paul Whitsun-Jones...Charity Man/Fezziweg/Old Joe
Annie West...Belle
Joan Sims...Mrs. Cratchit
Mary Ellen Ray...Mrs. Dilber
Alexander Williams...Tiny Tim (Uncredited)
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00:00To be continued...
00:30Oh, Jesus Christ, our Saviour, the throne of peace will stay.
00:40To take us up from Satan's power, we will go astray.
00:46To take us up from Satan's power, we will go astray.
01:06To take us up from Satan's power, we will go astray.
01:12The place, London. The time, 1843.
01:20The season, that of jollity, of festivity and charity.
01:25Holly and berries and goodwill to all men, with perhaps one exception.
01:30And it is with this exception that we are concerned in our story.
01:35The exception is Ebenezer Scrooge.
01:42A Merry Christmas, Uncle. God save you.
01:59Humbug.
02:01Christmas? A Humbug, Uncle? You don't mean that, I'm sure.
02:05But I do. Merry Christmas? What reason have you to be merry? You're poor enough.
02:10Well, come then, what reason have you to be morose? You're rich enough.
02:14The... Humbug. Don't be cross, Uncle.
02:19What else can I be? Out upon a Merry Christmas. If I could work my will, every idiot who will go back with Merry Christmas on his lips should be boiled in his own pudding and buried with a stake of holly through his heart.
02:38Uncle!
02:39Keep Christmas in your own way and let me keep it in mine.
02:44Don't be angry, Uncle. Come, dine with us tomorrow.
02:48Never.
02:49No, good afternoon.
02:51I'm sorry with all my heart to find you so resonant, but I'll keep my Christmas humour to the last.
02:56So, a Merry Christmas, Uncle, and a Happy New Year.
03:00Good afternoon.
03:02And a Merry Christmas, Mr. Cratchit.
03:04Merry Christmas, sir.
03:05Good afternoon.
03:09Scrooge and Marley's, I believe.
03:11Have I the pleasure of addressing Mr. Scrooge or Mr. Marley?
03:14Mr. Marley's died seven years ago this very night.
03:18At this festive season of the year, Mr. Scrooge, a few of us are endeavouring to raise a fund to buy the poor some meat and drink and means of warmth.
03:26But are there no prisons?
03:28Plenty of prisons.
03:30And then the tribunal and the poor law, the union workhouses, they in full vigour then, hm?
03:36Both very busy.
03:37Oh, I was afraid, from what we said at first, that something had occurred to stop them in their useful course.
03:43I don't make merry myself at Christmas and I can't afford to make eyes of people merry.
03:48Yes, I know.
03:49You'll tell me that many can't go there and many would rather die.
03:53Well, they'd better do that and decrease the surplus population.
03:58Good afternoon, gentlemen.
04:01Good afternoon.
04:02You'll want all day tomorrow, I suppose, hm?
04:11If quite convenient, sir.
04:13It's not convenient and it's not fair.
04:16If I was to stop you half a crown for it, you'll think yourself ill-used, I'll be bound, hm?
04:22And yet you don't think me ill-used when I pay a day's wages for no work?
04:27It's only once a year, sir.
04:30Well, that's a poor excuse for picking a man's pocket every 25th of December.
04:35You'll be here all the earlier the next morning.
04:41Even the blind man's dog knew old Scrooge and avoided him.
04:45Scrooge kept all humanity at a distance and liked it that way.
04:57I'm back.
04:58I'm back.
04:59I'm back.
05:00I'm back.
05:01I'm back.
05:02I'm back.
05:03I'm back.
05:17I'm back.
05:22I'll take the boat.
05:52What do you want with me?
06:00Ah, you don't believe.
06:05I don't.
06:07Because you may be an undigested bit of beef, a fragment of an underdone potato.
06:14There's more of gravy than of grave about you.
06:22I wear the chain I forged in life.
06:29I make it, link by link, and yard by yard.
06:34I gird it on of my own free will.
06:39And of my own free will, I wore it.
06:44Now, now, you were always a good man of business, Jacob.
06:48Business?
06:49Business, mankind was my business.
06:57Why did I walk through crowds of fellow beings with my eyes turned down
07:02and never raise them to that blessed star which led the wise men to a poor abode?
07:09I will, I will.
07:14I am here tonight to warn you that you have yet a chance of escaping my fate, Ebenezer.
07:24You will be haunted by three spirits.
07:32Expect the first tomorrow when the bell tolls one.
07:38Expect the second on the next night at the same hour.
07:42The third upon the next night when the last stroke of twelve persists to vibrate.
07:49The air was filled with moaning phantoms.
07:57Their misery was plainly that they had lost the power to interfere for good in human matters.
08:02Scrooge awoke to the chimes of a neighboring clock.
08:17His room was flooded with light and a hand opened the curtains of his bed.
08:21Are you, are you the spirit, sir, who, who, who, who's coming, who was foretold to me?
08:31I am.
08:33Who, who and what are you?
08:36I am the ghost of Christmas past.
08:39Long past?
08:40No, your past.
08:42What, what brings you here?
08:47Your welfare.
08:49Rise and walk with me.
08:56Good heavens, I was a boy here.
09:00Your lip is trembling.
09:03What?
09:03And what is that upon your cheek?
09:06Nothing, nothing.
09:09Nothing?
09:09These are but shadows of the things that have been.
09:15They have no consciousness of us.
09:18The school is not quite deserted.
09:21A solitary child, neglected by his friends, is left there still.
09:33Poor boy.
09:36Let us see another Christmas.
09:39Do you know this place?
09:45Know it?
09:46I, I, I was apprenticed here.
09:49Oh, why.
09:51It's old Fezziwig.
09:53It's Fezziwig alive again.
09:56Here ho, me boys.
10:02No more work tonight.
10:04Christmas evening.
10:05Christmas Ebenezer.
10:07Clear away, me lad.
10:08Shut up, Ebenezer.
10:10Merry Christmas to you.
10:13Healy ho, me lad.
10:14Ha, ha.
10:15He was very much attached to me.
10:18Welcome! Welcome, everybody! Merry Christmas to you all!
10:42A small matter to make these silly folks so full of gratitude.
10:47What, small?
10:49Why is it not? He has spent but a few pounds of your mortal money. Three or four, perhaps.
10:55But it isn't that. Spirit, he had the power. He had the power to render us happy or unhappy.
11:00To make our service light or burdensome, of pleasure or of toil.
11:08My time goes short. Quick!
11:12You are changed. You fear the world too much.
11:19There is nothing as hard as poverty, so I pursue wealth.
11:23I have seen your nobler aspirations fall off one by one until the master passion, gain, engrosses you.
11:35Our contract is an old one. I can release you.
11:41Have I ever sought release?
11:44In words? No. Never.
11:47In what, then?
11:49In a changed nature. In an altered spirit.
11:55May you be happy in the life you have chosen.
11:58Oh, spirit. Why would you delight to torture me?
12:04I told you these were shadows of the things that have been.
12:10But they are what they are. Do not blame me.
12:15Take me back! Haunt me no longer!
12:18Enter, Ebeneezer Scrooge.
12:35Come in and know me better, man.
12:39I am the ghost of Christmas present.
12:45You have never seen the like of me before.
12:53Spirit, conduct me where you will.
12:57If you have ought to teach me, well, let me profit by it.
13:03Touch my robe.
13:09As they walked, the spirit shed from his torch a few drops of good cheer on the passers-by.
13:15They stopped to bless the humble dwelling of the Cratchit family.
13:24And how did little Tim behave?
13:26As good as gold.
13:28He told me coming home that he hoped the people saw him in the church
13:33because he was a cripple and it might be pleasant to them to remember upon Christmas Day.
13:37Come on, Timmy.
13:38Who made lame beggars walk and blind men see?
13:49The little boy's lost in the snow.
13:53The little boy's lost in the snow.
13:55A merry Christmas to us all, my dears.
14:04God bless us.
14:06God bless us, everyone.
14:08God bless us.
14:10God bless us, everyone.
14:11God bless us, everyone.
14:13Spirit.
14:15Tell me.
14:16Tell me if tiny Tim will live.
14:19I see a vacant seat in the poor chimney corner.
14:24And a crutch without an owner, carefully preserved.
14:29No, no.
14:31If these shadows remain unaltered by the future, the child will die.
14:36No.
14:37No.
14:39No.
14:40What then?
14:42If he be like to die, he had better do it.
14:45Don't.
14:46And decrease the surplus population.
14:49Oh, God.
14:50To hear the insect on the leaf, pronouncing on the too much life among his hungry brothers in the dust.
15:03What place is this?
15:05A place where miners live, who labor in the bowels of the earth.
15:09But they know me.
15:10See?
15:11God bless you, very gentlemen.
15:12Let nothing you dismay.
15:14Remember Christ our Saviour was born on Christmas Day.
15:16And to save us all from saving our day.
15:19Oh, Lord.
15:23I owe her a special prayer nothing you dismay.
15:27Remember Christ our Saviour was born on Christmas Day.
15:29And to save us all from saving our day.
15:34Oh, Lord.
15:40Die!
15:41Oh, my God, God, rest me, merry, gentlemen, let not leave you alone.
16:01I just was born on Christmas night to save us all from Satan's power.
16:09When we have gone astray...
16:23Uncle Scrooge, he's given us plenty of merriment, I'm sure.
16:27And it would be ungrateful not to drink his health.
16:30And I say, Uncle Scrooge.
16:33Uncle Scrooge.
16:35A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to the old man.
16:38Whatever he is.
16:40He wouldn't take it from me, but may he have it nevertheless.
16:45My life upon this globe is very brief.
16:49It ends tonight, at midnight.
16:54Forgive me, but I see something strange.
16:57Look here.
16:59Look, look, down here.
17:04Spirit?
17:06Are they yours?
17:08They are man's.
17:11And they cling to me.
17:14This boy is ignorance.
17:17This girl is want.
17:19Beware them both.
17:20Beware them both.
17:21But most of all, beware this boy.
17:25Have they no refuge?
17:27No, no resource?
17:29Are there no prisons?
17:31Are there no workhouses?
17:32No workhouses?
17:45I am in the presence of the ghost of Christmas yet to come.
17:50You are about to show me shadows of things that have not happened, but will happen in the time before us.
18:02Is that so, Spirit?
18:07Ghost of the future, I fear you more than any specter I have seen.
18:11But as I know your purpose is to do me good.
18:16Lead on.
18:18Lead on, Spirit.
18:25Old Scratch has got his own at last, I hear.
18:28Why, what was the matter with him?
18:30God knows.
18:32It's likely to be a very cheap funeral.
18:34I don't mind going if a lunch is provided, but I must be fed.
18:38Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha.
18:57Come in to the parlor.
18:59Come into the parlor. Come into the parlor.
19:01Come on.
19:02Open that bundle, old Joe.
19:03Well, I'd be happy if I'd seen anything you'd find in there.
19:09These blankets, bed curtains.
19:14You don't mean to say you took them down rings at all with him lying there?
19:20Yes, I do.
19:24If he wanted to keep them after he was dead, why wasn't he natural in his lifetime?
19:30It's a judgement on him.
19:33Spirit, I see.
19:38Yes, I do, I do see.
19:41Oh, merciful heaven, what is this?
19:48Spirit, this is a fearful place.
19:51In leaving it, I'll not leave its lesson.
19:54Let us go.
19:57I understand you, and I would do it if I could,
20:01but I have not the power.
20:03Spirit, I have not the power.
20:09Let me see some tenderness connected with the death.
20:13My little, little child.
20:18My little child.
20:20Before I draw nearer to that stone to which you point, answer me one question.
20:31Are these the shadows of the things that will be, or are they shadows of the things that may be only?
20:41Am I the man who lay upon the bed?
20:51No, spirit.
20:52No, no, no.
20:54Spirit, I am not the man I was.
20:57Good spirit, assure me that I may yet change these shadows you have shown me by an altered life.
21:09I will not shut out the lessons that they teach.
21:22They're not torn down.
21:24Look, rings and all.
21:26Yes.
21:27I will live in the past, the present, and the future.
21:31Oh, Jacob, Harley.
21:33Heaven and the Christmas time be praised for this.
21:41I just don't know what to do.
21:43I don't know how dear the month it is.
21:50I don't know how long I've been among the spirits.
21:53I don't know anything.
22:01Hello, hello.
22:03What's today?
22:05Hi.
22:06An intelligent boy.
22:08What a remarkable boy.
22:10What's today, my fine young fellow?
22:13Today?
22:14Christmas Day!
22:15It's Christmas Day.
22:17It's Christmas Day.
22:18It's Christmas Day.
22:19I haven't missed it.
22:21The spirits have done it all in one night.
22:24Well, ladies can do anything they like.
22:26Of course they can.
22:27It's the kind.
22:43You know, I scarcely haven't looked at it before.
22:46It's a wonderful knocker.
22:51I'll send it to Bob Cratchit's.
22:53And he shan't know who sends it.
22:59My dear sir, how do you do?
23:02A merry Christmas to you, sir.
23:04Mr. Scrooge?
23:06Yes.
23:07Well, allow me to ask your pardon.
23:13Will you come and see me?
23:15I will.
23:16I will.
23:20Bless you.
23:22Is your master at home?
23:24Yes, sir.
23:25He's in the dining room along with Mistress.
23:28I'll just go in myself.
23:33Fred.
23:34Well, bless my soul.
23:37Come in, Uncle.
23:38Come in, Uncle.
23:39Hello.
23:46And what do you mean by coming here at this time of day?
23:51I am very sorry, sir.
23:53It's only once a year, sir.
23:55It shall not be repeated.
23:56I was making rather merry yesterday, sir.
23:59Now, I'll tell you what, my friend.
24:01I am not going to stand for this sort of thing any longer.
24:06And therefore, therefore, I am about to raise your salary.
24:13A merry Christmas, Bob.
24:15A merry Christmas.
24:17Oh, I will raise your salary, Bob.
24:18And endeavor to assist your struggling family.
24:22And we'll discuss your affairs this very afternoon, Bob.
24:29Scrooge was better than his word.
24:31He did all he had promised and more.
24:34And to Tiny Tim, who did not die, he was a second father.
24:38It was said thereafter that Ebenezer Scrooge knew how to keep Christmas well,
24:44if any man alive possessed that knowledge.
24:52Now, to the Lord, sweet praise.
24:55It's all you live in this place.
24:58And with true love and brotherhood, each other now impressed.
25:03It's only time of Christmas, for love and stuff to face.
25:09Oh, darling, it's a flower, that's my joy.
25:13Oh, darling, it's a flower, that's my joy.
25:18Oh, darling.
25:19Oh, darling.
25:21See you all the time.
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