Scrooge (1935) on Netflix
NR19351h 18mDramaFantasyHorror
Ebenezer Scrooge, an elderly money-lender in London, wants nothing to do with Christmas. On Christmas Eve his dead business partner Jacob Marley appears with a warning about three spirits.
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Plot summary
In London on Christmas Eve 1843, Ebenezer Scrooge runs a counting house where his clerk, Bob Cratchit, works for little pay in the cold. Two businessmen come asking for a donation for the poor, and Scrooge tells them that prisons and workhouses are enough. He catches Bob trying to take coal and warns him about his job. His nephew Fred, his only living relative, invites him to Christmas dinner, and Scrooge refuses and calls the holiday humbug. Bob goes home to his family while Scrooge eats alone in a tavern. At his house that night, the ghost of Jacob Marley, his partner dead seven years, appears wearing a chain he forged in life, and says three spirits will haunt Scrooge.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Scrooge (1935)
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- Producer Julius Hagen expected a $200,000 return from Scrooge's American runs, but the film earned only $6,000 from US cinemas, a shortfall that sent his production and distribution companies into receivership less than two years after they were formed.
- Scrooge was the first feature-length sound film to adapt Dickens's A Christmas Carol, and the second screen adaptation of the story to use sound, following a now-lost 1928 short.
- American entrepreneur Kent D. Eastin bought the 16mm non-theatrical rights in 1941 and cut Scrooge to 60 minutes for schools, churches and libraries; for more than 40 years that shortened version was the only way the film could be seen.
- Seymour Hicks had played Ebenezer Scrooge on stage regularly since 1901 and in a 1913 British silent version; that film, retitled Old Scrooge, was reissued in 1929 as a "sound film" by the low-budget Weiss Bros. studio with a synchronized musical score added.
