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My Four Favourite Scrooges

My Four Favourite Scrooges

The best of ‘A Christmas Carol’ in film, and some personal reminiscences concerning each of them

Dec 20, 2023
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Every December, the hoary old question about whether a certain action thriller constitutes a Christmas film darkens our horizons. I prefer engaging in another annual cinematic debate, namely one’s favourite film version of Charles Dickens’s timeless novella, A Christmas Carol. The distinction favourite rather than greatest is impo…

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