This is the classical story about the Victorian miser Ebenezer Scrooge (Seymour Hicks) who, in all his spiritual paltriness, grudge other people to enjoy the Christmas, as he can't. Not that he can't afford it, on the contrary, but because he has denied himself this 'luxuary' due to events in the past that have made him a bitter old man.
His poor clerk Bob Cratchit (Donald Calthrop) wants to enjoy the Christmas but he is almost prevented by Scrooge and this in spite of the fact taht Cratchit has a young son being very ill.
After this follows the well known events about when Scrooge meets the three Christmas Spirits, making him both bethink the past, by displaying for him his choices in life and how they have alienated him from others, even the woman he loved.
He also get to see the present and Bob Cratchit's family, their misery and at the same time joy when having some food to share.
The future looks gloomy but he might be able to change it?
This is a quite straight forward narrative telling this classic 'saga' and at the same time - as so often with these stories - trying to teach us a moral lesson.
Seymour Hicks is however quite harmless as Scrooge in my opinion but on the whole it's a sufficiently 'mean' story, not to much not to little in times of Christmas.
His poor clerk Bob Cratchit (Donald Calthrop) wants to enjoy the Christmas but he is almost prevented by Scrooge and this in spite of the fact taht Cratchit has a young son being very ill.
After this follows the well known events about when Scrooge meets the three Christmas Spirits, making him both bethink the past, by displaying for him his choices in life and how they have alienated him from others, even the woman he loved.
He also get to see the present and Bob Cratchit's family, their misery and at the same time joy when having some food to share.
The future looks gloomy but he might be able to change it?
This is a quite straight forward narrative telling this classic 'saga' and at the same time - as so often with these stories - trying to teach us a moral lesson.
Seymour Hicks is however quite harmless as Scrooge in my opinion but on the whole it's a sufficiently 'mean' story, not to much not to little in times of Christmas.
Director: Henry Edwards.
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