A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

[LadyScribe]

Two Questions please:
My favourite film is with George C Scott as Scrooge and a multi star cast.
What is your favourite?
In the film Scrooge buys the big turkey as a present to the Cratchit family. Did Dickens write that or was it a goose. I am surprised that in 1843 turkeys were widely available. Anyone with the book to put me right?

This is a trick question right?

I really like Patrick Stewarts version too , the fact that he does it entirely alone with no special effects makes it more gripping.

I am not sure if I have seen Alister Simms version, I will add it to my watch list.

@bruffin @nightinorout , this was a really good modern take on a old favourite.

I would imagine it would be very hard to come up with a new version of Cc now and keep it interesting and not to predictedable . (Iyswim)
I wonder if one set in the future would work.

Not a trick, but it is a popular pub quiz question.

Four? Unless The Christmas Carol is really a Dickensian version of The Sixth Sense and ive somehow missed the memo that Scrooge js really Bruce Willis and is actually a ghost himself all along. Nothing would surprise me.

Patrick Stewart and Richard E Grant

Sorry I did not get back OP but I see you got your answer! I went rummaging for the book I was convinced we had, only to find it was a collection of Dickens Christmas Stories. Which I will now read in December!

Ghosts… 3 including Marley???

The answer is 4, but most people think there are only three, they forget about Marley.

Alistair Sim or the Patrick Stewart/Richard E Grant version. Saw Stewart do the book as a one-man show years ago. it was quite stunning.

Definitely Alastair Sim then The Muppets.
I watched part of a version starring Guy Pearce last year on Disney+, it was terrible.

I like them all, but Muppets is the winner obviously.

Spirited! Really good fun version.

Yes this one, imagine my shock when I actually read the book and found that the first line was not, in fact, 'The Marleys were dead to begin with'

https://www.cinemalive.com/event/achristmascarol

Muppets, obviously 😁

Also like the Pixar cartoon version with Jim Carey (whom I usually can’t stand).

There’s a very old version that I love, Alistair Simm.

I have the muppets version on video - I keep it because this very moving scene is no longer include in the version shown on telly. The whole song has been cut out as apparently some audiences found it too upsetting but I think it’s integral to understanding why Scrooge became the man he was.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=r57KXWeXKoY&pp=ygUpd2hlbiBsb3ZlIGlzIGdvbmUgbXVwcGV0cyBjaHJpc3RtYXMgY2Fyb2w%3D

I have the version without the song because I couldn't stand the woman singing

And Ignorance and Want

@Chocoswirl

That's a most excellent resource. Thank you. Have bookmarked 😊

The George C Scott version is my best version , I quite like the 1951 version with Alistair Sim too.
George C Scott played Scrooge very well , especially as an American actor. Very good Dickens time English accent.

The Muppets also good , Michael Caine. Still holds up well for kids today.

What with one thing and another I am just catching up. I have now seen the colourized 1935 Version 'Scrooge' with Seymour Hicks. It is very good it is a clearer print than the b/w. Both are on YouTube.
Last nigh watched the Michael Horden with a young Clive Merrison and Zoe Wannamaker. I think BBC iPlayer.

We've just watched the Alistair Sim version. Absolutely brilliant even when we all know it practically word for word it never gets old.

Muppets all the way!

Christmas starts with the Muppet Christmas Carol singalong. https://princecharlescinema.com/PrinceCharlesCinema.dll/WhatsOn?f=13427144

I'm pretty sure a "goose club" plays a role in a Sherlock Holmes story - Blue Carbuncle, maybe?

It does indeed. Henry Baker is a member of his local pub’s goose club which is an important plot-point.

All the Jeremy Brett Holmes episodes are on ITVX, as an aside - essential viewing I’d say, and The Blue Carbuncle is lovely and festive!

I love Alistair Sim’s version waking up on Christmas morning realising he hasn’t missed it. But I will happily watch any version of this story, over and over again.