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LOG IN Forgot Login? Register General Discussion • Trading Post • Non-Film Score Discussion  Profile • Preferences • Community Rules • Help/Contact • Search Board Search Terms:  Search Within:  topics posts since 2019 2018 posts 2017 posts 2016 posts 2015 posts 2014 posts 2013 posts 2012 posts 2011 posts 2010 posts 2009 posts 2008 posts 2007 posts 2006 posts 2005 posts 2004 posts 2003 posts 2002 posts 2001 posts 2000 posts users  search tips  You must log in or register to post.   Go to page:  1 2      Non-Film Score Discussion: Favorite Scrooge Actor?     1 2    NEXT   LAST   Last Post   Posted:   Dec 19, 2014 - 8:08 AM     By:   jackfu   (Member) Sorry if this has been done. Do you have a favorite Scrooge? I've always liked Albert Finney's version ("Scrooge", 1970), especially how the makeup allowed for him to portray both the young adult and the old Scrooge, and of course his portrayal is awesome. However, last night I watched, for the first time in more years than I can remember, the 1938 version of A Christmas Carol with Reginald Owen. I found his Scrooge portrayal quite moving. He could give the coldest, most remorseless glare, yet when redeemed his eyes twinkled in such a way as to really choke me up. Maybe it was just more noticeable in HD, but it really got to me. Who's your favorite Scrooge?    Posted:   Dec 19, 2014 - 9:09 AM     By:   Christopher Kinsinger   (Member) I like all of the Scrooges, and Albert Finney is indeed a favorite. But the one that tops them all in my book, is George C. Scott. You can watch his version in its entirety on YouTube.    Posted:   Dec 19, 2014 - 9:13 AM     By:   jackfu   (Member) I like all of the Scrooges, and Albert Finney is indeed a favorite. But the one that tops them all in my book, is George C. Scott. You can watch his version in its entirety on YouTube. I also enjoyed his work. Not my top fave, but great! He certainly seemed the most intimidating Scrooge and his hoarse, joyful laugh as the redeemed Scrooge is top rank.    Posted:   Dec 19, 2014 - 9:14 AM     By:   Ado   (Member) Being a tad biased for Star Trek, but I think Patrick Stewart does it very well, in the TV movie and the stage version, which he has done many, many times. George C Scott probably a tie or close second though, really good. In the animated realm I thought Jim Carrey did surprisingly well, though you cannot make a direct comparison to live action versions.    Posted:   Dec 19, 2014 - 9:27 AM     By:   MikeP   (Member) Albert Finney. He was a fine older Scrooge and perfectly captured the longing and loss. A fine, fine performance.    Posted:   Dec 19, 2014 - 10:30 AM     By:   cinemel1   (Member) To me no contest: Alistair Sim.    Posted:   Dec 19, 2014 - 10:39 AM     By:   Ray Faiola   (Member) We can only imagine how Lionel Barrymore would have played the role on film had he not been stricken with crippling arthritis before production began. But his radio Scrooge is remarkable and his Mr. Potter is, basically, Scrooge in the 20th Century. Alistair Sim is the most believable Scrooge on film. The 1936 Twickenham production with Seymour Hicks drips with atmosphere and seems like it was actually filmed during Dickens' time!!    Posted:   Dec 19, 2014 - 11:16 AM     By:   shureman   (Member) Sim's my choice as well...    Posted:   Dec 19, 2014 - 11:47 AM     By:   Morricone   (Member) George C. Scott, no one quite touched the gravitas he brought to it, which made his redemption at the end all the more real and moving.    Posted:   Dec 19, 2014 - 12:23 PM     By:   Tall Guy   (Member) Bill Murray! Props man (holding mouse): I can't get the antlers glued to this little guy. We tried Crazy Glue, but it don't work. Frank Cross: Did you try staples?    Posted:   Dec 19, 2014 - 1:04 PM     By:   Bob DiMucci   (Member) The first version of the story I ever saw was the Reginald Owen-MGM version, and it's remained my favorite ever since. His transformation seems the most genuine. It must be that winning smile.    Posted:   Dec 19, 2014 - 3:04 PM     By:   Bill Carson, Earl of Poncey   (Member) Rowan Atkinson "...humbug...humbug....Baldrick, fancy a humbug??" - offers him a sweet!    Posted:   Dec 19, 2014 - 3:51 PM     By:   James MacMillan   (Member) Gotta be Fredric March in that TV production of A Christmas Carol (1955, was it?) aided and abetted by Bernard Herrmann!    Posted:   Dec 19, 2014 - 4:21 PM     By:   Eugene Iemola   (Member) Mr. Magoo. And then, Alastair Sim.    Posted:   Dec 19, 2014 - 5:11 PM     By:   filmusicnow   (Member) I like all of the Scrooges, and Albert Finney is indeed a favorite. But the one that tops them all in my book, is George C. Scott. You can watch his version in its entirety on YouTube. I also enjoyed his work. Not my top fave, but great! He certainly seemed the most intimidating Scrooge and his hoarse, joyful laugh as the redeemed Scrooge is top rank. I liked Finney as well, and I consider "Scrooge" the best musical version of all the versions.    Posted:   Dec 19, 2014 - 5:13 PM     By:   filmusicnow   (Member) Gotta be Fredric March in that TV production of A Christmas Carol (1955, was it?) aided and abetted by Bernard Herrmann! Interestingly, Basil Rathbone, who played Marley's ghost, played Scrooge in a television version as well.    Posted:   Dec 21, 2014 - 3:02 AM     By:   Preston Neal Jones   (Member) I'm sure Ray already knows this, but Lionel B.'s Scrooge portrayal was a beloved annual event on radio. *** I'm surprised that the first posts here were in favor of anyone but Alastair Sim. Maybe it's a generational thing. But for me and many of my contemporaries, with all due respect to these other gifted actors, Scrooge begins and ends with Sim, and with the superb film in which he appears. (To say nothing of the sublime Richard Addinsell score, which still cries out to be recorded in its entirety.) Special mention of the all-too-brief but masterful animated version by Richard Williams, with Sim reprising Ebenezer on the soundtrack.    Posted:   Dec 21, 2014 - 3:27 AM     By:   JohnnyG   (Member) I'm sure Ray already knows this, but Lionel B.'s Scrooge portrayal was a beloved annual event on radio. *** I'm surprised that the first posts here were in favor of anyone but Alastair Sim. Maybe it's a generational thing. But for me and many of my contemporaries, with all due respect to these other gifted actors, Scrooge begins and ends with Sim, and with the superb film in which he appears. (To say nothing of the sublime Richard Addinsell score, which still cries out to be recorded in its entirety.) Special mention of the all-too-brief but masterful animated version by Richard Williams, with Sim reprising Ebenezer on the soundtrack. Yes, PNJ, absolutely yes!    Posted:   Dec 21, 2014 - 12:00 PM     By:   Preston Neal Jones   (Member) Thanks for that beautiful portrait, Johnny!    Posted:   Dec 21, 2014 - 12:10 PM     By:   Eric Paddon   (Member) Sim first, followed by George C. Scott for me in terms of the most believable performances that lack the element of caricature that we tend to associate with Scrooge. The way they play Scrooge make it easier to believe how one like Scrooge could exist easily in 1840s London as someone all too typical. The Williams animated version is great but I wish it could have been an hour so that way it wouldn' have been truncated. That said, it was great to see visual depictions of things we never get to see in other versions like Christmas Present taking Scrooge out to a lighthouse and a ship at sea.     Non-Film Score Discussion: Favorite Scrooge Actor?    < 1 2  > >>  Go to page:  1 2   First Post    General Discussion • Trading Post • Non-Film Score Discussion  Profile • Preferences • Community Rules • Help/Contact • Search Board You must log in or register to post.   Go to page:  1 2

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