A Christmas Carol (Original B&W Version)

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Summary: Without question the best Christmas Carol ever
Review: Alastair Sim gives without a doubt the best performance of Scrooge. Im a man who doesnt cry that often, but this movie bought a tear to my eye. If this movie dosent turn a negative reclusive person around, nothing will. It truly , for a moment lets us analize ourselves and brings out that emotion that is sometimes forgotten around the holidays... Love. Remember, life is short.. God bless everyone

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Summary: God Bless US Everyone!
Review: What is there to say about this DVD. It's a classic. I like the colorized version and my Mom liked the B&W. There is something for everyone. It's well worth the money. Christmas wouldn't be the same without it.

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Summary: Greatest Christmas Movie
Review: This movie is truly a timeless classic. Alister Sim gives a great performance and the effects are done very well for the time it was made. You can't help but smile and laugh when Scrooge wakes up on Christmas morning full of good cheer and the Christmas spirit.

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Summary: THE CLASSIC ONE!
Review: This is the definitive version of Dicken's book. Sim is fabulous as Scrooge. You feel the passion of his performace as you wend your way through. His Scrooge as well as the spirits helps set the proper mood for every Christmas season. I consider it a special treat to watch this every year. Before I had it on tape I used to watch the tv listings to see which station it would be on so I could make sure to see it. I would not do anything else while this was on. Just watched it again. Never get tired of it. This is the number one holiday movie.

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Summary: A Great Version
Review: This is the version that so many feel is the definitive Christmas Carol. It really is an excellent version. Alastair Sim plays Ebenezer Scrooge like no one else can. The believability factor here for both, the 'old mean Scrooge' and the 'newly transformed Scrooge' is very high, with the transformation itself coming about slowly. And that's what I like about this version. Scrooge doesn't suddenly become happy and giddy from the first of the three spirits, as in the Reginald Owen version. It takes Sim's old Ebenezer fully until the last spirit to convince him that he truly was a "squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous old sinner!"
Victorian London is well represented here, its sinister darkness, dreariness, and hopelessness surrounding the viewer in glorious black and white to further the mood of the dirty old town.
This version has my favorite Jacob Marley (listen to the way he mourns and moans. Sends chills!). And Mrs. Dilber is hilarious at the end when Scrooge gives her a Christmas gift of money.
I collect the different versions of this movie that are available, and this one is my second favorite, with the George C. Scott version ranking number one and the Patrick Stewart version, with the best Cratchit family I have yet to see captured on film, coming in at number three. All have a bit to add to the story (including the Reginald Owen version) that the others may not have. All, pretty much, follow Dickens' original story (although, I must say, the George C. Scott version is truest to the book in the dialogue). Jacob Marley and Scrooge from Alastair Sim, the Cratchit's and the whole 'present' scene from Patrick Stewart, the dialogue and the sets from George C. Scott. My advice? By them all! Really! If you trust my opinion (and you have no copies of any version yet), purchase them in the order that I have placed them. You won't be sorry.

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Summary: No other version even comes close
Review: When I was a child growing up in New York, a local tv channel played this version of Christmas Carol at midnight on Christmas eve...and it was so good that we all stayed up to watch it, year after year. The haunting music, the incredible acting (Alistair Sim is brilliant), and the beautifully nuanced black and white photography make this a perfect movie.

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Summary: SCROOGE & MARLEY
Review: I own this one & the one with Patrick Stewart! I like them both!

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Summary: ALASTAIR SIM'S PORTRAYAL IS UNBEATABLE!!
Review: The classic Dickens tale has been portrayed and interpreted many times by many actors. From George C. Scott, and Albert Finney to Henry Winkler and even good ol' Bill Murray, to name just a few. But while so many variations of A Christmas Carol has been seen, only one can truly be experienced, and that is this version starring Alastair Sim. Alastair portrays Scrooge like no other as, or perhaps ever will. Christmas cannot be complete without this classic. Even those who are not fans of Dickens or this timeless story, you will surely be inspired and pleased with this superb rendition.

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Summary: Galifreyian
Review: The all time best version of the classic Dickens tale! Look no further then this video if shopping for the most heart-felt and realistic portrayl of Scrooge. Each Christmas eve my family sits together and reads the orginal book out loud. We each have a mug of hot chocolate(or a glass of rum eggnog as age dictates!) and we pass around the book to each other ,chapter to chapter,as it unfolds. Then when we finish, we sit down to watch the video all together.This version very closely follows the book without all the hype and special effects.To watch Alastair Sim transform from the grubbing,covetous Scrooge into the kind Uncle Ebeneezer is fresh, warming and new everytime.Both my husband and I cry,EVERY single time, when Ebeneezer goes humbly to his nephew Freds home on Christmas day to beg forgiveness for hurting him in the past.Will he be welcomed with open arms, you wonder?When he is, each and everytime, our tears flow! Get this movie it is wonderful!

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Summary: The best version of this classic!
Review: I am not a person who easily cries at movies, but this one gets me every time - not only to cry with sadness, but happiness as well. The scene at the end when Tiny Tim greets Scrooge with "Uncle Scrooge!" and runs to him, and Scrooge picks him up, just makes me smile and cry at the same time. Then the two walk together down the snowy lane holding hands and the choir sings Silent Night. Just magical!! If you really need to get in the Christmas spirit, or be reminded of what Christmas truly means, watch this one.