Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the dire fate that awaits him if he does not change his ways. Scrooge is faced with his own story of growing bitterness and meanness, and must decide what his own future will hold: death or redemption.
Alastair Sim
as Scrooge (voice)
Michael Redgrave
as Narrator (voice)
Diana Quick
as Ghost of Christmas Past (voice)
Joan Sims
as Mrs. Cratchit (voice)
Michael Hordern
as Marley's Ghost (voice)
Paul Whitsun-Jones
as Fezziwig (voice)
David Tate
as Scrooge's Nephew/ Charity Man (voice)
Felix Felton
as Ghost of Christmas Present (voice)
Annie West
as Belle (voice)
Melvyn Hayes
as Bob Cratchit (voice)
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There are some astonishingly good time-lapse animations in this very heavily abridged version of the famous Charles Dickens Christmas story. It helps that Alastair Sim reprises his characterful role from 1951 and what now ensues is an engaging and quickly paced version of the tale of the miser who h...