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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0082554363923
Format: Black & White, DVD-Video, NTSC
Label: Front Row Video
Manufacturer: Front Row Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Front Row Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: November 20, 2001
Running Time: 78 minutes
Sales Rank: 135776
Studio: Front Row Video
Theatrical Release Date: November 30, 1935
Editorial Review:
Amazon.com:
This British production of Dickens's Christmas Carol has been eclipsed by subsequent versions, but it stands on its own as a darkly atmospheric (if sometimes regrettably brisk) telling of the beloved tale. Even with the rough quality of existing prints, this Scrooge has a visual intensity that approaches the bold compositions of German expressionism. And in its central role it has a mostly forgotten star: Sir Seymour Hicks, one of the era's celebrated English stage actors. With his gnarled face and flyaway hair, Hicks looks every inch the mean old misanthrope, and his cruelty has a realistic quality missing in some of the more stylized interpreters of the role. Hicks had played Scrooge many times on stage (and before in silent film), and he gets the tenor of every 'Humbug!' just right. As a bandy-legged Bob Cratchit, Donald Calthorp is a perfect Victorian illustration come to grinning life. --Robert Horton
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Scrooge
I think we own all Scrooge and I never saw one I did not like including this DVD.
Rating: - Scrooge
This movie would have made Charles Dickens proud. It is the best. I recommend it to anyone who likes classic Christmas movies!!
Rating:  - Look to see me no more. . . or ever
We are "A Christmas Carol" family. My dad read the story to us as children every year and we'd sit at his feet and mouth the words along with him. Thankfully, he taped his reading on cassette before he passed and his younger grandchildren can have the same experience we did. Before he did that, I read it to my son. With these credentials, we know the story. This version, with Marley's ghost visible to only Scrooge, yielded one of the most hilarious and memorable Christmas Eve lines yet. Family ... Read More
Rating: - WARNING!!! BUYER BEWARE!!!
To anyone looking to buy the Sir Seymour Hicks version of "Scrooge" - DO NOT BUY THIS ONE! LEGEND FILMS should be thoroughly ashamed of themselves in offering this abridged version and leading the unwary buyer to believing it to be the complete version. I watched the film last year on the IMAGE label and enjoyed it very much. It is flawed, but has some truly wonderful sequences that should not be missed. But if you watch this truncated version you will miss some of the best parts - twenty minutes ... Read More
Rating:  - Splendid Sir Seymour Hicks version, colorized. Wish it wasn't abridged
This Legend Films edition of the 1935 "Scrooge" derives from the commonly revived hour-long abridgement, prepared for the educational market in 1941. This shorter version is widely available on many budget labels, but Legend offers it now in color.
Legend has done an excellent job with the added color, favoring muted tones befitting the drab settings and various "gaslight" scenes, and reserving brighter colors for certain effects (the Ghost of Christmas Present materializing against a verdant ... Read More
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