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...usual around this time of year, Christmastime is here. As is also usual, another version of Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" is here, too. The latest producers of this old classic make the same claims--"biggest, best ... most authentic version ever filmed"--as their predecessors did, but they live up to them...
...English film, "A Christmas Carol" stars Alastair Sim as old Ebenezer Scrooge. Sims gives something to the word "humbug" that would warm Dickens' heart. His growling, penny-pinching version of the shrewd, hated money changer is so frighteningly rendered as to make the audience fidget like Bob Crachit, Scrooge's poor, hard-working clerk. Sim's conversion to a kind, happy man among men is neither maudlin nor unbelievably...
...Christmas Carol presents Dickens' classic at the Beacon Hill. Alastair Sim is at his best as the "humbugging" Scrooge. Even Tiny Tim is bearable in this excellent English film...
Assistant Freshman Dean William D. Weeks '49 and Dr. Philip H. Rhinelander '29, lecturer in General Education, will throw off their customary dignified air at the annual Freshman Christmas Party next Tuesday at the Union. Weeks will play Santa Claus and Rhinelander will read excerpts from Dicken's "Christmas Carol...
...Christmas Carol (Renown; United Artists) is a serviceable new edition of Charles Dickens' evergreen story,* arriving from Britain in time for the holiday trade. Several cuts below the best British film versions of Dickens (Great Expectations, Oliver Twist), the picture at times may tax a moviegoer's seasonal good will. Though Dickens' frank sentimentality calls for broad treatment, Brian Desmond Hurst's direction is too often heavy as well. Able Character Actor Alastair Sim is the dependable old brandy that gives this plum pudding a lift...