Thanks, but I ain’t gonna watch a movie on my laptop when I got a 60" TV 4 feet away!
I might have it on the DVR at the house down the street, but then I’ll have to turn the heat up. Maybe I can make it a event. Buy less-cheap beer, maybe get something good to eat, take the dogs…
Like a Date Night! Except No Date!
I managed to find it on some cable channel or other, and I thought it was without commercials, but I wasn’t really noticing which channel I was on. There’s a couple of weeks left, I’m sure it will be on again.
Hang on there, G! Can’t you get YouTube on your big TV?
I can’t get no satisfaction.
I like most of the versions I’ve seen. Haven’t seen the Jim Carrey one though. I really like Scott as Scrooge.
I really really like Bill Murray as Frank Cross though, in Scrooged. “you’re talking about a guy who just this morning told someone to staple antlers to a mouse’s head…”
It of course does not follow the original in plot but it sure does in spirit. Frank’s vision of seeing Calvin in a mental hospital is even more sad than Tiny Tim dying.
I recorded the 1938 version just recently, on TCM. With Reginald Owen.
Haven’t watched it.
OTOH, I’ve watched Its a Wonderful Life at least 3 times already this year.
I wanna shoot the TV everytime I see Elf on the veiwer guide.
ETA: has anyone made a count of how many versions of the Hallmark romantic Christmas movie there really are? That alone has fed many starving actors. It is its own industry.
It doesn’t suggest it at all, and comes right after quoting me about leaving things out.
And, no, none of the other versions invents as much as the 1951 version does. There’s that entire scene where Marley and Scrooge buy out the business on ravenous terms. It might be consistent with Scrooge’s later character, and show his going over to the Dark Side of the Money, but it ain’t in Dickens.
The Zemeckis version throws in a lot of slapstick that’s not in Dickens, but he draws his people-interaction scenes from the novel. Other versions might change dialogue or elaborate on how the Ghost of Christmas Yet To Come manifests, but nobody else creates whole scenes not in the book. They’re generally so strapped for time that they end up cutting out scenes instead.
I had the opportunity to see A Christmas Carol at Ford’s Theater in Washington, DC Thanksgiving weekend. It was a different experience in this format but the actors did an excellent job.
Please tell me they somehow worked in the Ghost of Abraham Lincoln! 
Does Scrooge go to hell in the book? I don’t remember, and the quick synopsis on wiki doesn’t say. Because in the 1970 musical Scrooge he does go to hell and gets wrapped in his chains.
No. The Spirit of Christmas Yet to Come takes him to a gravesite and wordlessly insists that he read the name on the tombstone, EBENEZER SCROOGE. Then he wakes up.
I like those few invented scenes in this movie, because they round out Scrooge’s history. The scene showing Scrooge’s sister’s death provides a reason for why Scrooge is so pissy towards his nephew.
I remember when the Patrick Stewart version was due to come out, and he was on a talk show to promote the movie. He admitted that before this movie, he had never read the book, so he read it to prepare himself and was bowled over by how good it was. He read a paragraph from the book in his great voice on this show, and it was the paragraph describing the icky pawn shop where the thieves went to sell what they had robbed from Scrooge’s bedroom. It contained these sentences:
“Secrets that few would like to scrutinise were bred and hidden in mountains of unseemly rags, masses of corrupted fat, and sepulchres of bones. Sitting in among the wares he dealt in, by a charcoal stove, made of old bricks, was a grey-haired rascal, nearly seventy years of age; who had screened himself from the cold air without, by a frousy curtaining of miscellaneous tatters, hung upon a line; and smoked his pipe in all the luxury of calm retirement.”
LOL that’s a good one.
They did not but it’s such a small theater that the assassination box was directly above the stage. A little distracting at first but I adjusted.
I’ve been to the museum years ago but seeing an actual play in that location was delightful.
Nope.
Although the Zemeckis version has Scrooge breaking through the ground at his gravesite and being in danger of falling to his coffin, absurdly far below, and lit with nasty glowing orange as if lit by the flames of Hell. Then he falls and ends up close to the wooden coffin, which turns out to be his wooden floor when he wakes up.
That was in the 1971 animated version too.
Really some great songs in this version (eg, “razzleberry dressing”). I’ve heard – not sure if it’s true – that the songwriter team of Merrill & Styne had a lovely ballad for Magoo, but didn’t use it; instead, they put it in their next production.
That production was “Funny Girl”, and the song was “People” (sung by Barbra Streisand).
In terms of plot and character it would’ve worked great as a song for Scrooge’s girlfriend Belle. It’s really out of place in Funny Girl.
I’d pay serious bux to hear Barbra sing “Razzleberry gravy.”
Readers can judge for themselves.
Anyway, thank you and other posters for answering my question: yes, they all do that.
Today my DVD of Scrooge (1951) starring Alistair Simm arrived. I only ordered it yesterday! 
Are you sure that wasn’t the BD/SM Porn version?