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Charles Dickens' classic story "A Christmas Carol", chronicling the miserly Ebenezer Scrooge's life-changing Christmas Eve visit from four spirits, is one of the most well-known holiday tales. It has been adapted countless times into radio, stage, television, and film productions.
With all these versions, which is [I]your[/I] personal favorite? It can be a play you saw, a very special episode of a tv show, or a movie you watch every year. As long as a grumpy person is visited by spirits showing the past, present, and future, it's fair game.
The George C. Scott version by far.
I like the Beavis and Butthead one.
[B]A Christmas Carol (1951) starring Alastair Sim,[/B] Meryvn Johns, Michael Hordern and Glyn Dearman 86 min.
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Best Scrooge!
I'll be honest, i rather enjoyed the animated one with Jim Carrey and Gary Oldman. But, if there's a version with Bill Murray then I MUST watch it.
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Christmas tradition for me - I watch this one every year.
Although the musical one with Kelsey Grammer was pretty good too.
The Muppets version is easily my favorite, followed closely by the one where Patrick Stewart plays Scrooge.
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This is best.
The disney version is pretty good too.
Well, my favorite film version is either the George C. Scott film or Scrooged.
I'm also obliged to say that I did act in a version of A Christmas Carol that wasn't all that bad many years ago.
Alistair Sim owns Scrooge. But I like David Warner, who usually plays a bad guy, as Bob Cratchit and Roger Rees as Fred in the George C Scott version. All the other versions can go suck eggs. Except for Mister Magoo's Christmas Carol, that one is okay since Mister Magoo is like dinosaurs- he makes everything better by being in it.
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It doesn't help that this and the Flinstones are the only two versions of the tale I've fully seen.
Probably the 1971 animated version by Richard Williams, it has the voices of Alastair Sim and looks just like the original illustrations.
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Also, A Blackadder Christmas Carol.
The only ones I've seen the whole way through are Mickey's Christmas Carol and The Muppet Christmas Carol.
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