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A Christmas Carol 1951 3 and a half stars

    N/R, 86 min.
Genre: Fantasy / Drama
aka: Scrooge

Director: Brian Desmond Hurst
Cast: Alastair Sim, Mervyn Johns, Hermione Baddeley, Jack Warner, Kathleen Harrison, Patrick Macnee, Peter Bull, Michael Hordern, Miles Malleson, Ernest Thesiger, George Cole, Francis De Wolff, Michael Dolan, C. Konarski, Glyn Dearman

  This popular version of Charles Dickens' classic story "A Christmas Carol" stars Alastair Sim as the miser, Ebenezer Scrooge, whose life is turned around one Christmas Eve when he is visited by the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future (Michael Dolan, Francis De Wolff, and C. Konarski). After their visit, Scrooge reassesses his treatment of Tiny Tim (Glyn Dearman) and his family. Sim is great and makes this film a must for everyone.

Dangerous Exile 1958 2 stars

    N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: Brian Desmond Hurst
Cast: Louis Jourdan, Belinda Lee, Keith Michell, Richard O'Sullivan, Martita Hunt, Finlay Currie, Anne Heywood, Frederick Leister

  Following the beheadings of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, their son is smuggled into Wales where he is protected by the Duc de Beauvais (Louis Jourdan).

Movie Quick Pick

1. A Christmas Carol (1951)
aka: Scrooge
2. Dangerous Exile (1958)

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