CHRISTMAS CAROL, A (1951)

The Holiday Picture of All Time! Charles Dickens' Joyous Classic!

Alastair Sim's tour-de-force performance as the ultimate miser, Ebenezer Scrooge, has almost single-handedly made this beloved version of Charles Dickens' story into one of the best-loved Christmas films of all time. Some of Britain's best filmmakers united behind Sim, who was joined by a delightful cast of accomplished and acclaimed English actors; creating what many today believe to be the best and most faithful production of Dickens' immortal tale. Cranky and curmudgeonly Scrooge learns the error of his unkind ways and is taught the true meaning of the holidays when he is visited by the ghost of his late business partner and the spirits of Christmas past, present and future.

Blu-Ray Special Bonus Features:

• Introduction by Leonard Maltin
• "Dead to Begin With: The Darker Side of a Classic" - featuring British film historian and culturalist Sir Christopher Frayling
• "Scrooge By Another Name: Distributing A Christmas Carol" - Featurette with US distributor, Richard Gordon
• "The Human Blarney Stone: Life and Films of Brian Desmond Hurst" with Allan Esler Smith, the great-great nephew and biographer of Hurst
• "Alastair Sim Version: Too Good to be Shown only at Christmastime" - by Fred Guida, author of "A Christmas Carol and its Adaptations"
• "Silent Dickens" - a collection of early examples of Dickens on film in HD (Scrooge-1922 and Bleak House-1922)