A Christmas Carol poster
Screenplay Hugo Butler
Director Edwin L. Marin

A Christmas Carol

Tagline: Greater than "David Copperfield"!

Release Date: 1938-12-16

Duration: 69 minutes

Synopsis

Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the dire fate that awaits him if he does not change his ways. Scrooge is faced with his own story of growing bitterness and meanness, and must decide what his own future will hold: death or redemption.

Casting

  • June Lockhart
    Belinda Cratchit (uncredited)
  • Leo G. Carroll
    Marley's Ghost
  • Ann Rutherford
    Spirit of Christmas Past
  • Billy Bevan
    Street Watch Leader
  • I. Stanford Jolley
    Man on Sidewalk (uncredited)
  • Bunny Beatty
    Martha Cratchit
  • Reginald Owen
    Ebenezer Scrooge
  • Gene Lockhart
    Bob Cratchit
  • Harry Cording
    Waiter (uncredited)
  • Herbert Evans
    (uncredited)