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A Christmas Carol is a 1938 American drama film adaptation of Charles Dickens's 1843 novella of the same name, starring Reginald Owen as Ebenezer Scrooge, an elderly miser who learns the error of his ways on Christmas Eve after visitations by three spirits.
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Reginald Owen is a less flamboyant Scrooge than Sim, which tends to make one concentrate more on the story. The movie was made on a medium budget, and it shows. However, this is not a bad thing, for while the later version gives has a dank, drafty Victorian mood,--one can almost feel the winter wind,--this one benefits enormously from its ...
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- Drama, Family, Fantasy
- Edwin L. Marin
- 1938-12-16
Owen is perhaps best known today for his performance as Ebenezer Scrooge in the 1938 film version of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, a role he inherited from Lionel Barrymore, who had played the part on the radio for years.
A Christmas Carol is a 1938 film adaptation of Charles Dickens' classic novel. Directed by Edwin L. Marin, it stars Reginald Owen as Ebenezer Scrooge, a miserly man who undergoes a transformative journey during Christmas Eve.
Jan 12, 2008 · Reginald Owen plays holiday humbug Ebenezer Scrooge, the misers miser who has a huge change of heart after spirits whisk him into the past, present, and future, while Gene Lockhart stars as Scrooge’s dutiful employee, Bob Cratchit.
At the urging of Barrymore himself, Reginald Owen was tapped to play Scrooge in the movie AND on Barrymore's annual radio show. Owen had begun his career onstage in London in 1905, played Broadway in 1924 and finally moved to Hollywood in the late ╘20s. Landing both roles as Ebenezer Scrooge was a huge coup for Owen, and he did not disappoint.
