Scrooge (1935)

This movie has a special place in cinematic history as the first full length adaptation of A Christmas Carol with sound. Veteran actor Sir Seymour Hicks is the title character in this tale of ghosts and the spirit of Christmas.

Sir Seymour Hicks stars as Ebenezer Scrooge in Charles Dickens’s timeless classic. Scrooge is mean old miser who wants nothing to do with Christmas, bitterly rejecting the company and well wishes of his fellow man. But on this Christmas Eve, Scrooge’s former partner, Jacob Marley, an invisible but forceful ghostly presence, visits Scrooge to warn him that his time is running short. Throughout the long, cold night, the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future appear to Scrooge, taking him on a journey into the very spirit and magic of Christmas itself.