Greeting once again film fans, my latest 'Movie Memories' article for Lanarkshire Live takes a look at cinema's best adaptations of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol and seminal Disney adventure Pinocchio.
In cinema history, A Christmas Carol - the 1843 anti-capitalist novella by Charles Dickens - rates among the most frequently adapted stories for film and television with a summation of 24 film versions dating back to 1901, and more than eight animated versions with new adaptations appearing regularly.
The 1951 British version of Scrooge stars Scotland’s brilliant character actor Alistair Sim in the title role of the ill-tempered old miser who regards Christmas as “humbug”.
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