Quote Originally Posted by Retro Red
1. A Christmas Carol [The 1951 version with Alastair Sims – and never, never, ever colorized! Noel Langley did a masterful job of translating this literary classic to a screenplay. And Alastair Sims is, to me, the quintessential Scrooge. He gives such a great, nuanced, believable & so very marvelously human performance. In a Holiday season where the destructive effects of greed are so evident, this story has particular relevance!]

As Tiny Tim said, “God bless us, every one!”
Amen and thank you, Craig -- I'm glad to see I'm not the only one who thinks this is the best (bar none) version of A Christmas Carol out there.

One of my favourite holiday movies takes place on January 6th, the feast of the Epiphany/Twelfth Night in Dubin -- James Joyces' The Dead, directed by the late great John Houston. I first saw the movie in my English Lit class in undergraduate school (after reading the story of course) and that movie never fails to movie, especially the last scenes with the narration from the last paragraph of the story being read over it.

Regards,

Todd