Scrooge (1951)
Charles Dickens' Joyous Holliday Classic!
Genre : Fantasy, Drama
Runtime : 1H 26M
Director : Brian Desmond Hurst
Writer : Noel Langley
Synopsis
Ebenezer Scrooge malcontentedly shuffles through life as a cruel, miserly businessman; until he is visited by three spirits on Christmas Eve who show him how his unhappy childhood and adult behavior has left him a selfish, lonely old man.
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