Derek Winnert

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It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas: The top 30+ holiday movie memories

Christmas movies trigger a load of feelings and memories, some magical, some less so. Here’s the top Christmas crackers movie list. It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas (1): Dudley Moore gives an appealing turn […]

Dec, 04

Scrooge *** (1935, Seymour Hicks, Donald Calthrop, Athene Seyler, Oscar Asche, Barbara Everest, Maurice Evans, Robert Cochran, Mary Glynne, Garry Marsh, Marie Ney, C V France) – Classic Movie Review 4809

British actor-manager Seymour Hicks co-writes the screenplay and plays the old Victorian grouch Ebenezer Scrooge, who has visions of the past, present and future and is terrified enough finally to stop being a miser. Director […]

Dec, 23

Scrooged **** (1988, Bill Murray, Karen Allen, John Forsythe, Carol Kane, Robert Mitchum, Anne Ramsey) – Classic Movie Review 566

Bill Murray gives a splendidly sour and grumpy star turn as Frank Cross, a hateful, curmudgeonly, Scrooge-like American TV executive, in the 1988 comedy film Scrooged. Director Richard Donner’s 1988 update on Charles Dickens’s perennially […]

Dec, 23

Scrooge *** (1970, Albert Finney, Alec Guinness, Edith Evans, Kenneth More) – Classic Movie Review 557

‘What the Dickens have they done to Scrooge?… They’ve put him in a big, big musical.’ Well that was risky advertising, huh? Director Ronald Neame’s 1970 movie is quite a jolly musical version of A […]

Dec, 21

Scrooge [A Christmas Carol] ***** (1951, Alastair Sim, Jack Warner, Kathleen Harrison, George Cole, Mervyn Johns, Hermione Baddeley) – Classic Movie Review 552

‘I believe the world is becoming a very hard and cruel place.’ – Scrooge. Director Brian Desmond Hurst’s 1951 seasonal delight Scrooge [A Christmas Carol] is the simply best movie version of the Charles Dickens classic […]

Dec, 20

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