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"YOU CAN'T TOP ALISTAIR SIM'S SCROOGE. ", Ever since I can remember, Christmas hasn't been Christmas without at least one viewing of this film. Even waaaay back to the days before VCRs and 300 cable channels, living in a small Arkansas town, my brother and I would scour the TV guide that came in the Sunday paper to see if it was coming on one of the three channels we got. (How did we survive?)

I also have the 2002 disc, and comparing them on my setup it's obvious that alot of care has gone into the restoration efforts. However (here comes the nit-pick)...watch the scene where the door to Scrooge's sitting room flies open in advance of Marley's entrance. Scrooge leaps up from his chair and cowers against the wall...his mouth is opening BUT YOU CAN'T HEAR HIM UTTER HIS CRY OF FEAR! This, to me, is shoddy audio engineering...since of course it's loud and clear on the 2002 version. Someone apparently dropped the audio out when the transfer was being done. Yes, I know this is a very, very minor point, but it's still a point. So I actually give the disc creators 4 stars. If they were as dedicated to the full restoration of this film as the packaging would have us believe, they wouldn't have missed something so trivial.

"A Christmas Carol (Ultimate Collector's Edition)(B/W & Color) ", I don't really have to write anything do I?????

The life of a Scrooge transformed by the Love of a friends. Watch both though I do really prefer the black & white one just being nostalgic.

"Overall my favourite screen adaptation", Over the decades there have been many screen adaptations of this timeless classic by Charles Dickens. The story is sometimes acted out with levity, as in "Black Adder's Christmas Carol" and Michael Caine's excellent 1992 production "The Muppet Christmas Carol", et al. When reviewing Alastair Sim's 1951 film I feel it's more appropriate to restrict my comparisons to the other 'serious' adaptations as well as to the original novel.

The 1984 George C. Scott production boasts some excellent acting but leaves out much of the storyline. The exact reverse is true of the 1999 Patrick Stuart version, where more of the original story is retained but Stuart is unconvincing as Scrooge. Overall, this 1951 Alastair Sim adaptation is the best I've seen yet - especially since it was 'colourised' in 1979. In fact, this DVD boxed-set contains both! It also includes a pretty dated 1936 effort called "Scrooge", starring Seymour Hicks. Cinema made enormous strides in those 15 years and Hicks's treatment can't hold a candle to Sim's 1951 classic.

There's one aspect of the Alastair Sim version that's worthy of mention. Scenes and dialogue not found in the original text are inserted in order to "flesh out" the story. In some cases, this can actually enhance the viewing experience (and I say that as something of a literary purist). For example, there's a scene where Scrooge & Marley - both aged thirty-something - offer to pay their employer's debts from personal savings. This is in exchange for an option to buy up 51% of the company's shares. Dickens's novel contained no such narrative, yet the scene helps to paint a picture of the partners' gradual descent from the benignity of honest ambition into the malignancy of personal greed.

But often with a classic novel, when you add something to it you take away. This is especially true of the farcical scene where Jacob Marley appears to be repenting on his death-bed. The fact that Marley died unrepentant is crucial to the storyline! A poor piece of directing in my view.

Overall, I still highly recommend this video. Were it not for the Marley death-bed anomaly I'd have awarded it the full 5 stars.


"Dickens displaying his Craft", Perhaps this Christmas story is the most famous non-biblical one of all, written by one of the great authors in a poignant, heart rending tale guaranteed to entice your heart to overflowing.

The movie does the story justice, the actors seem born to their roles.

I love this story, and our family finds a reason to watch this movie every year. And what a joyous feast we have after we view it.

"Sim the best of all", Although there are several versions of the Christmas Carol, this one by Sim is considered to be the very best. The absence of the technology we see today didn't hamper this production. One must remember the age of this presentation in order to really appreciate it.

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"Alistair Sims "A Christmas Carol" -- Ultimate Collectors Edition", As with many things crafted in the old days, this older version of Dickens' classic is by far the finest. Although the George C. Scott attempt was very good, nothing can touch this one. It not only captures the very essence of the story with expert structure, pacing, characterization, set design and costume -- but spirit as well. Once you have seen the eccentric Alistair Sim in his tour de force portrayal of Scrooge, it is very hard, if not impossible, to imagine the irascible Ebinezer in anyone else's skin. A Christmas without a viewing of this wonderful movie seems incomplete and is a tradition in our household.

"Now It Smells Like Christmas", This is easily the best movie adaptation of Dickens' little novel.

Alastair Sim doesn't make his Scrooge into an object of curiosity or amusement. His character has soured on life's promises of affection and he uses that insight to help us believe in the character's journey from a sensitive young man to a bitter old one.

Sure, it's great fun to take in how eloquently he voices his cynicism. But this Scrooge has real depth and that's what turns him from a cardboard character into a representative for anyone whose dreams have ever been dashed by a cold and heartless world. As the spirits take him back over that road to disillusionment, we see - as does Scrooge - how much he sacrificed when he gave up his hope in humanity.

Sim makes that journey believable and meaningful; he breathes real life into the character so that we can't help but feel his pain and see in him some of our own. His transformation is measured, convincing and, finally, deeply moving.

A great supporting cast rounds out the movie. Most notably, Kathleen Harrison, Scooge's charwoman, balances comic delivery with the emotion that let's us see how the coldness of one man hardens those around him. And, conversely, his conversion spreads warmth and light through her as well.

Yes, the movie takes some liberties with the novel, but that's to be expected when you transplant a story from one medium and era to others. And this restoration is good, so good that the few shots that seem beyond repair stick out a bit painfully.

Watch it and have a good cry. Hope, redemption and the persistent possibility of a little bit of good in everybody: isn't that what Christmas is all about?

"A Christmas Carol", I'm very satisfied with this dvd.I had been looking at all the local stores and couldn't find. I'm glad I searched the internet.

"Christmas Carol Collectors Edition", I was very happy to see that my collector's edition was composed of not only the original black and white version but also a colorized version. I did not received until after Christmas but as soon as I got it I opened up the box and watched the black and white version. Great as always. My favorite Christmas movie besides Rudolf. Have not viewed the colorized version yet, but am looking forward to it.

"The best version of A Christmas Carol", Brings back the good memories of preparing for Christmas. The best Scrooge of the lot! (Jacob Marley is no slouch here, either!)