A Christmas Carol

A Christmas Carol

Ebenezer Scrooge

Narrator (voice)

Marley's Ghost

Ghost of Christmas Past

Ragpicker /

Scrooge's Nephew

Ghost of Christmas Present

Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come

Bob Cratchit

Mrs. Dilber

Tiny Tim

The only film version of "A Christmas Carol" to win an Oscar.

Alastair Sim and Michael Hordern reprise their roles as Scrooge and Marley from the classic British film version of A Christmas Carol (1951).

The word "humbug" is misunderstood by many people, which is a pity since the word provides a key insight into Scrooge's hatred of Christmas. The word "humbug" describes deceitful efforts to fool people by pretending to a fake loftiness or false sincerity. So when Scrooge calls Christmas a humbug, he is claiming that people only pretend to charity and kindness in an scoundrel effort to delude him, each other, and themselves. In Scrooge's eyes, he is the one man honest enough to admit that no one really cares about anyone else, so for him, every wish for a Merry Christmas is one more deceitful effort to fool him and take advantage of him. This is a man who has turned to profit because he honestly believes everyone else will someday betray him or abandon him the moment he trusts them.

Marley's Ghost says the third spirit will come "when the last stroke of twelve has ceased to vibrate." However, he actually appears on the FIRST stroke of twelve.