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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 recall on Dickens’ classic chronicle of greed and redemption. Bob Crachit’s family is given a greater role than in the unusual new, 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 Improbable 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 Petite Tim, Barry McKay makes a dashing Fred, and Leo G. Carroll makes for a unpleasant Marley’s ghost.
The sets of wintertime London are charming and varied, the costumes lavish, and Franz Waxman’s obtain perfectly accents tender scenes without overwhelming. This is the first time that the 1938 version is available on DVD (in its new aesthetic B&W and not the abominable colorized version), and it includes several brief extras: the film’s fresh theatrical trailer, 2 festive vintage featurettes: Jackie Cooper’s Christmas Party and Judy Garland Sings “Still Night” and the classic Oscar®-nominated cartoon Peace on Earth. Distinct to bring holiday cheer to your home, this improbable 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 assume of the sizable sad & 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 huge version of the legend it is tranquil a solid wretchedness. 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 Thunder 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 itsy-bitsy replacement was needed for an ailing Lionel Barrymore, who had regularly performed the record as a radio play each Christmas (similar to Patrick Stewart’s novel experience doing “A Christmas Carol” as a one-man expose 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 Dilapidated Man Potter in “It’s a Astounding Life,” but it was Owen who got his biggest allotment of cinematic immortality with this film, the oldest of the various versions of “A Christmas Carol” that is composed worth catching.
From a production standpoint MGM’s film is better than the 1951 murky & white version, but the latter has Sim as the positive Scrooge and that makes all the different. Unruffled, Owen is more than competent in the role and his performance is famous 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 rotund vent to his feelings and before his ghostly open his spiritual rehabilitation, Owen makes this Scrooge the most execrable 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 ruin to his troubled nephew that he appreciates how considerable incompatibility a smile on his Uncle Scrooge’s face makes.
The production values are resplendent top-notch for this 1938 film, which was a fairly gigantic 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 dismal with this version of “A Christmas Carol,” but honest that there are others that are better. Collected, fans of the record should invent a point of checking this one out at some point during a future Holiday season.
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