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As a child, I remember my mother watching this on TV every year. When I was slightly older, I became wrapped up in the magic of “A Christmas Carol,” and would eagerly await this version on AMC every year. I never understood why Alastair Sims’ 1951 version was heralded as the ultimate version; for me, it was too contrived, too melodramatic, and Sims chews up the scenery.
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This 1938 version is a warmhearted select on Dickens’ classic story of greed and redemption. Bob Crachit’s family is given a greater role than in the fresh modern, and the strength of the ensemble cast shines. Reginald Owen as Scrooge was a last-minute replacement, since Lionel Barrymore (Mr. Potter in “It’s a Incredible Life”) was ill. Gene and Kathleen Lockhart shine as the Cratchits (their daughter June made her debut in this), Terry Kilburn is a hyper but cute Microscopic Tim, Barry McKay makes a dashing Fred, and Leo G. Carroll makes for a repugnant Marley’s ghost.
The sets of wintertime London are charming and varied, the costumes lavish, and Franz Waxman’s bag perfectly accents tender scenes without overwhelming. This is the first time that the 1938 version is available on DVD (in its unique lovely B&W and not the abominable colorized version), and it includes several brief extras: the film’s new theatrical trailer, 2 festive vintage featurettes: Jackie Cooper’s Christmas Party and Judy Garland Sings “Peaceful Night” and the classic Oscar®-nominated cartoon Peace on Earth. Determined to bring holiday cheer to your home, this fantastic adaptation of “A Christmas Carol” shouldn’t be missed!
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This 1938 film of Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” is the “other” version of the classic Yule time fable, which is to say that when most people reflect of the sizable dim & white version they have in mind the 1951 film with Alastair Sim. The 1938 film stars Reginald Owen as Ebenezer Scrooge, and if it is not a large version of the epic it is peaceful a solid anxiety. Owen made over 100 films in his career, playing first Dr. Watson and then Sherlock Holmes in the early 1930s and ending his career as Admiral Tell in “Mary Poppins” and Commodore Dodds in “Bedknobs and Broomsticks.”
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Almost exclusively a character actor and supporting player throughout his career, he got to play Scrooge when a last puny replacement was needed for an ailing Lionel Barrymore, who had regularly performed the sage as a radio play each Christmas (similar to Patrick Stewart’s unique experience doing “A Christmas Carol” as a one-man indicate before doing the 1999 made for television version) . Barrymore suggested Owen for the role. Of course, Barrymore would eventually play one of the greatest Scrooge-like characters when he was Conventional Man Potter in “It’s a Amazing Life,” but it was Owen who got his biggest piece of cinematic immortality with this film, the oldest of the various versions of “A Christmas Carol” that is quiet worth catching.
From a production standpoint MGM’s film is better than the 1951 dim & white version, but the latter has Sim as the positive Scrooge and that makes all the different. Mild, Owen is more than competent in the role and his performance is illustrious from the rest in that he clearly enjoys being a mean one more than any other Scrooge. In the early scenes, when Scrooge is able to give fat vent to his feelings and before his ghostly open his spiritual rehabilitation, Owen makes this Scrooge the most imperfect of them all. The rest of his performance is solid, but the early stuff is his best, although I do like his line at the destroy to his horrified nephew that he appreciates how great disagreement a smile on his Uncle Scrooge’s face makes.
The production values are aesthetic honorable for this 1938 film, which was a fairly astronomical budget pains by MGM. The most familiar faces are those of Leo G. Carroll, who plays a textbook Marley’s Ghost (he would be the scientist whose experiment goes astray in “Tarantula” and Mr. Weatherby on television’s “Man From U.N.C.L.E”), and Ann Rutherford, who is the Ghost of Christmas Past (she would be Polly Benedict in the Andy Hardy series and Carreen O’Hara in “Gone With the Wind”) . The final judgment is not that there is anything markedly nefarious with this version of “A Christmas Carol,” but unprejudiced that there are others that are better. Composed, fans of the yarn should execute a point of checking this one out at some point during a future Holiday season.
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