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Originally Posted by issybird
^^My favorite Christmas Carol is the George C. Scott television movie cited. His Scrooge is a lot more nuanced than typical and David Warner’s performance as Bob Cratchit is a gem. Tiny Tim is unfortunate.
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Yes, I'm a sucker for the GCS version, too. And yes, Tiny Tim is unfortunate, but one rarely gets everything. Edward Woodard, though, was the Ghost of Christmas Present!
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I also love Mr. Magoo which is amazingly close to the text except for switching the order of the ghosts. I can still sing all the songs. It’s vastly improved when you skip the fore-and-aft relating to the putative Broadway performance.
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LOL, yes, the Magoo version--I can probably say the words. Ha!
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I loathe the Muppets and Mickey Mouse.
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I've
tried loving Scrooged, (Murray) too. Perhaps I just hold Dickens and Scrooge a bit too tightly to "sacred cows," but then again, yup, love that Magoo! I must be somewhat flexible, somewhere...
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Originally Posted by poohbear_nc
I love the Muppets and the Mickey Mouse version. Goofy as Jacob Marley falling down the stairs can still make me laugh out loud. And Rizzo's pratfalls (literally) are similarly hilarious.
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Oh, no, dueling Scrooges! Ye Gods, the humanity....
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My favorite 'serious' version is the 1951 version with Alastair Sim.
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OMG, how the hell did I forget to mention Alistair! Also a childhood fave, that I used to watch on...gosh, WPIX, in NYC, in the Saturday morning reruns, near Xmas? I'm not even sure that's still the name of the station--used to show on...channel 11, methinks.
I suspect with my sleep annoyances kicking in of late, I'll be watching all or most of these, lol. God bless TCM's sort-of-half-baked streaming that they still have on Roku....(I wish they'd made a better effort with their "real" streaming platform--you know, even as a dedicated TCM watcher, I didn't tknow that they
had a streamer, until they
didn't? Sheesh!)
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