The Spirit reproaches Scrooge for taking Marley's money and house, as an ashamed Scrooge finds himself back in his bed. When Scrooge arrives, Marley, on his deathbed, knowing he will be punished for his misdeeds, tries to warn Scrooge against his avarice. On one Christmas Eve, Scrooge refuses to leave work to visit a dying Marley. When Jorkin is found to have embezzled funds from the now bankrupt company, Scrooge and Marley make good the missing funds, on condition they can control the company. Jorkin's firm buys Fezziwig's business, and Alice breaks her engagement to Scrooge because of his dedication to "a golden idol". Scrooge joins Jorkin and meets Jacob Marley. Scrooge witnesses the death of Fan, after giving birth to Fred, and discovers he missed her last words asking him to look after her son. He is shown how he is tempted to leave Fezziwig's to join a business run by Mr. He watches his proposal to his sweetheart Alice, who accepts. The Spirit shows Scrooge the annual Christmas party thrown by his former benevolent employer Fezziwig. His beloved sister Fan arrives to take him home, telling Ebenezer that their father has had a change of heart toward him. Scrooge is shown himself alone at school, unwanted by his father after his mother died in childbirth. Frightened, Scrooge takes refuge in his bed. He warns Scrooge that he will be visited by three spirits the first will arrive at one o'clock in the morning. According to him, Scrooge must change his ways or after death forever walk the earth bound in chains, as Marley does. Scrooge returns home and is visited by the ghost of his seven-years-dead partner, Jacob Marley. Scrooge reluctantly gives his clerk Bob Cratchit Christmas Day off since there will be no business for Scrooge then, but expects him back to start working earlier the following day. His nephew, Fred, invites him to dinner the next day, but Scrooge refuses, disparaging Fred for having married. He refuses to donate to two men collecting for the poor. On Christmas Eve, Ebenezer Scrooge tells two businessmen that he has no intention of celebrating Christmas. Initial reaction to the film was mixed, but over time became mostly positive, with general praise for the performances, particularly Sim's portrayal of Scrooge. Peter Bull narrates portions of Charles Dickens' words at the beginning and end of the film, and appears on-screen as a businessman. Michael Hordern plays Marley's ghost and the older Jacob Marley. It also features Kathleen Harrison, George Cole, Hermione Baddeley, Mervyn Johns, Clifford Mollison, Jack Warner, Ernest Thesiger and Patrick Macnee. It stars Alastair Sim as Ebenezer Scrooge, and was produced and directed by Brian Desmond Hurst, with a screenplay by Noel Langley. Scrooge (released as A Christmas Carol in the United States) is a 1951 British Christmas fantasy drama film and an adaptation of Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol (1843).
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