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01/09/1913 Drama, Fantasy 0h 40m
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Overview

A 1913 British black and white silent film based on the 1843 novel A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. It starred Seymour Hicks as Ebenezer Scrooge. In the United States it was released in 1926 as Old Scrooge.

  1. Leedham Bantock

    Director

Top billed cast

  1. Seymour Hicks

    Ebenezer Scrooge

  2. Leedham Bantock

  3. William Lugg

  4. Ellaline Terriss

  5. Dorothy Buckstone

  6. J.C. Buckstone

  7. Leonard Calvert

  8. Osborne Adair

  9. Adela Measor

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Reviews

A review by CinemaSerf
Written by CinemaSerf on 2023-02-14
This is a bit like reading the book, only with animated rather than static photo plates interspersed between the pages. Seymour Hicks is Dickens' eponymous miser who works and lives, frugally in the extreme, in his one one room counting house. It is Christmas eve and he reluctantly allows his clerk ("Cratchit") the day off tomorrow and settles down beside his meagre fire to count his gold and go to sleep before.... This is an extremely abridged version of the story. It spends rather a disproportionate amount of time on the preamble, but the more vindicating elements - the ghosts - make only br...read the rest
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Status
Released

Original Language

Budget
$0.00

Revenue
$0.00

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