Scrooge

Scrooge (1935)

What happened when Scrooge saw Marley's face on the door knocker...and the clock struck twelve!

Ebenezer Scrooge, the ultimate Victorian miser, hasn't a good word for Christmas, though his impoverished clerk Cratchit and nephew Fred are full of holiday spirit. In the night, Scrooge is visited by spirits of the past, present, and future.

Date of release
1935-11-26
TMDB
6.1 / 10 (53)
Runtime
1h 18m
Genres
Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Director
Henry Edwards

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Based on: A Christmas Carol

Scrooge is a 1935 British Christmas fantasy film directed by Henry Edwards and starring Seymour Hicks, Donald Calthrop and Robert Cochran. The film was released by Twickenham Film Studios and has since entered the public domain. It was the first sound film of feature length to adapt the Charles Dickens novella A Christmas Carol, and it was the second cinematic adaptation of the story to use sound, following a now-lost 1928 short subject adaptation of the story. Hicks stars as Ebenezer Scrooge, a miser who hates Christmas and is visited by a succession of ghosts on Christmas Eve.

Production

Scrooge was the first film to be released by Twickenham Film Distributors, Ltd., which was founded by Julius Hagen and Arthur Clavering. Hagen acted as producer for the new company while Clavering handled distribution. Hagen then formed his own distributing firm.

The title character in Scrooge was performed by Sir Seymour Hicks, who had previously portrayed the character on the stage hundreds of times since 1901.

Filming began on 25 March 1935 and the finished picture was ready for advance tradeshow screenings on 2 July. The final budget was £25,000 (then $120,000 US, about par for a moderately budgeted feature film). Producer Hagen arranged distribution throughout the world, with the exception of the United States.

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