This program presents two delightful versions of the Charles Dickens classic, A Christmas Carol - a Victorian morality tale about an old and bitter miser, Ebenezer Scrooge, who undergoes a profound experience of redemption over the course of one Christmas Eve. The first is the 1923 silent version of A Christmas Carol, also released to theaters as Scrooge. Directed by Edwin Greenwood, from the screenplay by Eliot Stannard, it was produced by Edward Godal as the fifth part of the U.K. "Gems of Literature" series - and stars Russell Thorndike, Nina Vanna, Jack Denton, and Forbes Dawson. The second film, Old Scrooge, is a long thought lost silent version, released in 1926 by Pathé.
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