A Christmas carol

Resource Information

The work A Christmas carol represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Hamilton Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.

Label

A Christmas carol

Statement of responsibility

Renown Film Productions ; produced & directed by Brian Desmond Hurst ; screenplay by Noel Langley

Title variation

• Scrooge
• Charles Dickens' A Christmas carol

Creator

• Charles Dickens' A Christmas carol (1951)

Contributor

• Warner, Jack, 1895-1981
• Cole, George, 1925-2015
• Dearman, Glyn
• Baddeley, Hermione, 1908-1986
• Sim, Alastair, 1900-1976
• Mollison, Clifford, 1897-1986
• Hurst, Brian Desmond
• Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870
• Harrison, Kathleen, 1892-1995
• Langley, Noel, 1911-1980
• Hordern, Michael, 1911-1995
• Johns, Mervyn
• VCI Entertainment (Firm)
• Macnee, Patrick, 1922-2015
• Renown Film Productions

Subject

• Christmas -- England | London -- Drama
• Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 -- Film adaptations
• Poor families -- England | London -- Drama
• Fantasy films
• Apparitions -- Drama
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired
• Misers -- England | London -- Drama
• Ghosts -- England | London -- Drama
• Holidays -- Drama
• Melodramas (Motion pictures)
• Fiction films
• Film adaptations
• Feature films
• Christmas films
• Video recordings for people with visual disabilities
• Scrooge, Ebenezer -- Drama
• Sick children -- England | London -- Drama
• London (England) -- Drama
• Redemption -- Drama

Genre

• Feature films
• Melodramas (Motion pictures)
• Christmas films
• Film adaptations
• Video recordings for people with visual disabilities
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired
• Drama
• Fantasy films
• Fiction films

Language

• eng
• eng
• spa
• eng
• eng

Summary

Classic Dickens story about a bitter old man, Ebenezer Scrooge, who's given a chance for redemption when three ghosts come to visit him on Christmas Eve

Related

• Scrooge

Member of

FpH2TN53b-8

Cataloging source

TEFMT

Characteristic

videorecording

Credits note

Music composer, Richard Addinsell ; musical director, Muir Mathieson

Dewey number

791.43/72

Intended audience

Ontario Film Review Board Rating: PG

Language note

English dialogue, English or Spanish subtitles; optional narrative for the blind

LC call number

PN1995.9.C5113

LC item number

C47578637 2007

PerformerNote

Alastair Sim, Jack Warner, Kathleen Harrison, Mervyn Johns, Hermione Baddeley, Glyn Dearman, Clifford Mollison, Michael Hordern, George Cole, Patrick MacNee

Runtime

86

Target audience

adult

Technique

live action