One of my favorite Christmas movies.

[amerikat]

[GP6971]

1. Me too

Never see it listed though. Thank you for posting

[zentrum]

2. He wrote it specifically to address

...income inequality.

It's not called Dickensian England for nothing. The living conditions of the poor were appalling---probably just a step away from how Detroit is and many of our poor neighborhoods. Will be our Xmas future unless we change the tax code to make the rich pay their share and start regulating capitalism. Again.

[FredStembottom]

3. One of my favorite movies, period.

If anyone here has never seen it, be prepared to get a "so that's what that story was all about" feeling after you have.
It includes some vital tidbits left out of any other versions I have seen.
And Scrooge's "conversion" scene the next morning, as done by Alistair Sim, is simply one of the great scenes in all cinema.
Not kidding.
(And all from a movie with about a $1000 budget it would seem)

Enjoy!

[choie]

7. I wholeheartedly agree!!

Alastair Sim's was the definitive performance of Scrooge. My parents used to wake me and my sisters up to watch it when it was shown after midnight on Channel 9 in NY on Christmas Eve.

[IrishAyes]

4. Yes, thanks for posting this.

As a young boy, Dickens served time in a poorhouse, working off his father's debts. Left him scarred for life. Then he left us the treasure of great literature. We'd do well to heed the warning.

But then Kelly tells us Santa's white, so he must be a capitalist too... what chance does that leave us? I can smell the rotting corpse of the GOP in it's death throes, I hope. Either that or somebody forgot to change their socks again.

[jtuck004]

5. The Commies of Bedford Falls...

http://videosift.com/video/Mr-Potter-and-the-Commies-of-Bedford-Falls

Coincidentally, our unemployment rate is down too, with many of the same kinds of jobs Potter envisioned, ...and paying not too much more than they did then.

[Martin Eden]

6. Saw it again last night

1951 Alistair Sim was always one of 3 essential Christmas movies for me, the others being It's a Wonderful Life and Miracle on 34th Street.

For my wife and step daughter by far the best version of A Christmas Carol is the the Muppet film with Michael Cain, which really is quite good. They never saw what I see in the 1951 film, though when I watched it with my wife the other night and she actually sat down for the entire movie without being preoccupied doing other things or falling asleep, and she had to admit it was pretty good.

[RBInMaine]

8. Watched it. Good version. Fox news would call this film an anti-capitalist communist plot.

[mockmonkey]

9. Not a Christmas movie but...

If you ever get a chance, catch the movie "Green for Danger" with Alistair Sim. He's wonderful as a Police Inspector sent to solve a crime committed at a Hospital during WWII.

[Faygo Kid]

10. Almost as good as the George C. Scott version.

Which is the best, and I don't say that lightly.