# What's The Best Film Version of "A CHRISTMAS CAROL"? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 7, 2003, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-film-version-of-a-christmas-carol/217603 "2003-12-07T20:28:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![ralph124c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2003, 8:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-film-version-of-a-christmas-carol/217603/61 "2003-12-11T08:06:07Z")
A feature of the Victorian Christmasdinner was the desseret…Plum Pudding! Dickens describes it as something that took a long time to make…apparently,it was steamed for a long time. Anybody have a modern recipe for this dish? Is it a dessert that the modern palate wouls appreciate?Or is it something that we today would find too heavy? ---
**Author:** ![Rayne\_Man](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/df705f/32.png) [@Rayne\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rayne_Man)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2003, 8:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-film-version-of-a-christmas-carol/217603/62 "2003-12-11T08:27:50Z")
Plum pudding is still eatern in the UK but it usually now called Christmas pudding. Here is a recipe :- [http://www.floatcottage.inuk.com/christmas.htm](http://www.floatcottage.inuk.com/christmas.htm) If the thought of suet puts you off you can buy a vegetarian alternative. In fact most of the store bought puddings contain this. BTW , in a recent poll ,about a third of Britons said that they do not like Christmas pudding but eat it because it is traditional. The secret is to not eat too much . It is very rich and , coming after a main course of turkey and all the trimmings , there is usually not much room left for the pudding. ---
**Author:** ![ddgryphon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8c91f0/32.png) [@ddgryphon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ddgryphon)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2003, 9:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-film-version-of-a-christmas-carol/217603/63 "2003-12-11T09:11:46Z")
Checking back in with a little extra info on the spooky animated one I mentioned: > **[A Christmas Carol (TV Short 1971) - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068373/)** > > A Christmas Carol: Directed by Richard Williams. With Alastair Sim, Michael Redgrave, Michael Hordern, Diana Quick. An old bitter miser is given a chance for redemption when spirits visit him on Christmas Eve. has the details. It was made in 1971 and featured Sim as the voice of Scrooge. Read the comments to get a feel for this short. It is really quite disturbing, yet very cool. ---
**Author:** ![kimfair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/278dde/32.png) [@kimfair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kimfair)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2003, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-film-version-of-a-christmas-carol/217603/64 "2003-12-11T21:25:46Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by ouryL \* > \*\*Having read the book as a child(really, I did!!) > > there are certain scenes I like to see in A Christmas Carol > > The children Want and Doom > > The showing of the other spirits like Marley > > The bad pun involving grave and gravy > > \*\* \These are all in the Sim version, which I find the best. I like the other versions I’ve seen (never seen the Scott version), but there’s someting about the black and white photography in the Sim version, and the fact that Sim looks EXACTLY like I imagined him when I read the story, that makes it tops for me. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-film-version-of-a-christmas-carol/217603.md?page=3)