Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 86 min
- Age rating
- NR
- Language
- English
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Frights
- Moderate
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
The story
Ebenezer Scrooge malcontentedly shuffles through life as a cruel, miserly businessman, until he is visited by three spirits on Christmas Eve who show him how his unhappy childhood and adult behavior has left him a selfish, lonely old man.
- london
- england
- based on novel or book
- businessman
- holiday
- greed
- supernatural
- redemption
- business ethics
- victorian england
- money
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Alastair Sim
Ebenezer Scrooge
Mervyn Johns
Bob Cratchit
Glyn Dearman
Tiny Tim Cratchit
George Cole
Young Ebenezer Scrooge
- Brian Worth — Fred Scrooge
- Michael Hordern — Jacob Marley
- Kathleen Harrison — Mrs. Dilber
- Rona Anderson — Alice
- Jack Warner — Jorkins
- Michael Dolan — Spirit of Christmas Past
- Francis de Wolff — Spirit of Christmas Present
- Carol Marsh — Fan Scrooge
- Hermione Baddeley — Mrs. Cratchit
- John Charlesworth — Peter Cratchit
- Miles Malleson — Old Joe
- Directed
- Brian Desmond Hurst
- Written
- Noel Langley
Production
- Rating
- 7.4 / 10 · 372 ratings
- Studio
- George Minter Productions
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
