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For me it's no choice: "Scrooge", the 1951 adaptation of Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" with the best Scrooge ever, Allistair Sim. This is the only film I ever watch in its colorized version (feeling guilty all the while I always switch back to the the black abnd white but end up still preferring the faux colors, which seem appropriate.
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Don't know about the best but I think "It's a Wonderful Life" is one of the most overrated films of all time.
The Albert Finney "Scrooge" from 1970 is probably my favorite.
The Family Stone. I know, I know....it's hardly Oscar stuff, but I still love it. Also....if you have extensive cable coverage it's on every other night!
Bill Murray is in top form and carries the show, some really hilarious bits but some weak stuff as well.
J.B.
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so far as movie adaptations of Jean Shepard stories go, it pales to "Ollie Hopnoodles Haven of Bliss" Shown on the Disney Channel when it was still a pay channel.
Marvelous. Clearly the better of the two stories.
Tough to find now. I have an off-air VHS tape version. So far as I'm aware never got transferred to DVD,
David
Agreed. I'll have to hunt that down if it ever becomes available.
Nostalgia kkicks in everytime I see Christmas Story though, Ralphie's class room was my grade 4 class room!!!
BTW, the building is no longer a school- its being retrofitted as a women's shelter...
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"David! You can KILL a man with a chopstick!" -Keith Charles, Six Feet Under
Or maybe one of the Die Hard movies...
it was an amimated version, with Sim providing the voice of Scrooge. It played on network TV several times during the '70s, then disappeared. I believe this marked the last film appearance of Alastair Sim.
I long to see this again, because the drawing style was marvelous--rather sketchy and evocative of the Victorian era, like an etching or pen-and-ink. Also, many of the more fantastic parts of the book--Marley's ghost, for example, or the "two children" who appear from under the gown of the Ghost of Christmas to Come, were rendered in a much more "gruesome" manner than any of the live-action films. Much more in keeping with the spirit of the original, I thought.
Anyone remember this flick, know its title, or know if it's available on DVD?
Chuck Jones, who did the animation for the Looney Toons does some of his best work here and the ghost of Jacob Marley is rendered in hair raising style...frightening as no 'toon has been before or since IMO.P.S. You can buy it at Amazon.com....http://www.amazon.com/Christmas-Carol-Animated-Version/dp/6305107645
J.B.
I also found out that this won an Academy Award (1971 I believe) for best cartoon short.
Alastair Sim/ Scrooge....but am also very fond of the musical Albert Finney version as well......gotta see if I can find that on DVD this year...
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My top 5-
It's a Wonderful Life
A Christmas Story ($!ing Bumpus!)
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
A Christmas Carol
Miracle on 34th Street (the original)
unlike most others this one is actually fun, it is a slice of Americana and it really captures many truths about Christmas and being a kid.
Great topic, by the way!
1) Best Scrooge...Patrick Stewart's Christmas Carol. (For some reason, I liked Kelsey Grammar's, too.)
2) Best Humorous Christmas Movie: Christmas Story noses out Bad-der Santa.
3) Best Action/Adventure Christmas Movie: Die Hard
4) Best TV Special: How the Grinch Stole Christmas edges out Charlie Brown Christmas edges out Rudoplh the Red Nosed Reindeer.
5) Worst Christmas Movie: Jingle All the Way
Knopflers score is outstanding (and OOP)
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I liked the colorized version of that version, too. (Though, I didn't care for Patrick Macnee's commentaries, in the version I saw). For some reason, everything except the "real" stuff, like skin tones, look neat to me. This film, and other color conversions that are primarily shot using stages, with phony, painted backgrounds, and exteriors, look right to me. I guess it could be characterized as electronic impressionism. And really intended only for the television experience. It couldn't work on the large screen. Reminds me of an elaborate live theater stage set: one knows it's phony, but it works. Hawks' "Sergeant York" worked really well in color. So did "It's A Wonderful Life," if I remember correctly. The film that didn't work for me, was the original "Miracle On 34th Street," because of too many real exteriors. Funny how it works in reverse, too. Think of de-saturated films (like Wizard Of OZ), that work fine without color. Now what I would really like to see, would be an HD 16 by 9 transfer of the Scrooge, in it's original b & w! Pardon the long spiel.
At least they can't colorize either "Citizen Kane" or "Casablanca".
What a wonderful life.
Yours,
and as a third
White Xmas
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