Customer Reviews
Great film - tacky print - By: Catblack_uk, 11 Jan 2008 
With a central performance by Alistair Sim that is nothing short of brilliant this movie deserved to be restored to its original condition for DVD but wasn't. I have not seen any prior reviews that commented on the crappy quality of this print but crappy it is, sadly.
Cut to fit the TV screen, it is a poor quality print. No subtitles. No closing credits. A lack of sharpness & definition to the picture & sound. The "extras" are not worth bothering with. Disappointing is what it is.
Kathleen Harrison is superb as is the supporting cast of British film luminaries. They & Alistair deserved better. Cheap & looks it.
Bah! Humbug!!
One of the best - By: Mr. Derek R. Osbourne, 30 Dec 2007 
Along with the Patrick Stewart version this is the truest & best of the versions of Christmas Carol - true to the original Dickens in script & message. It is without doubt a must every Christmas - & my eleven year old loves it too.
Done it again! - By: The BlackFerret, 25 Dec 2007 The perfect way to end Christmas Day 2007;I've just watched this again.
For about the 30th Xmas running!
Enduringly good it is, simply because the acting & photography recreate Dickens to a T. This was only 3 years after the definitive Oliver Twist, but the black & white photography is once more just as effective in portraying the brighter side of life as the gloom,squalor & horror in which Dickens specialized & has always been famed for.
The supporting cast is marvellous, & Jack Warner as the venal & crooked Mr Jordan is around a million miles away from Dixon of Dock Green. Everyone in the cast, child actors included, seem to have made a real effort to get under the skin of their characters. And when a writer is as deliberately obtuse & verbose as Dickens often was, that is to their eternal credit.
But Alistair Sim, of course, is the main reason to buy this. Even distinguished Shakespearean actors like Patrick Stewart wasted their time trying to reprise his efforts. No one could, end of story, hence my current pity for the remake of St Trinians & alll concerned in it.
Sim was also wonderful in a host of other films, but here he has seen what in Scrooge is simply selfishness & curmugonliness. Thus he enables us to also look beyond that & see the redeemable qualities that were always there.
And without that, the change in Scrooge after the spirits' Xmas Eve visitations makes no sense whatever. One of the great beauties of this film is that Alistair Sim somehow grabs your pity, if not sympathy straight away, which illustrates perfectly how well he'd studied it too.
There are a lot of Xmas traditions that may drive you or I round the bend;believe me, this is definitely NOT one of those-enjoy it,anytime!
The best -Nothing near it ! - By: Mr. L. T. S. Bentley, 21 Dec 2007 Please do not look for any other adaptation of a christmas carol,as you wont find a better one than this.Featuring the sublime alistair sim as scrooge no one has ever came near his potrayal of the famous miser.
I first watched this as a boy & now watch it every christmas with my own wife & children,superb!I agree with other reviewers it is best in black & white .
Hits the mark every time - By: It's Christmaaaaaaaaas, 08 Oct 2007 There has never been a better film version of A Christmas Carol than this - captures the mood of the time pefectly & depicts the story as Dickens wrote it. Best viewed in b&w
