Category Archives: Scrooge

Interlude      Even the movies which do not cheat the ending like to toss in a scene showing the arrival of a prize turkey at the home of the Cratchits.  They NEED to see that turkey done all the way through.      None I have seen quite discuss the effect of the arrival of aContinue reading “SCREEN SCROOGES: To Cheat Or Not To Cheat”

     The hand in which he wrote the address was not a steady one, but write it he did, somehow, and went down stairs to open the street door, ready for the coming of the poulterer’s man.  As he stood there, waiting his arrival, the knocker caught his eye.      “I shall love it asContinue reading “SCREEN SCROOGES: Scrooge’s Christmas”

     Rushing to the window, he opened it, and put out his head.  No fog, no mist; clear, bright, jovial. Stirring, cold; cold piping for the blood to dance to; Golden sunlight; Heavenly sky; sweet fresh air, merry bells.  Oh, glorious.  Glorious!      “What’s to-day?” cried Scrooge, calling downward to a boy in Sunday clothes,Continue reading “Screen Scrooges: The Boy”

STAVE FIVE: The End Of It      Yes!  And the bedpost was his own.  The bed was his own, the room was his own.  Best and happiest of all, the time before him was his own, to make amends in!      “I shall live in the Past, the Present, and the Future!” Scrooge repeated, asContinue reading “Screen Scrooges: Oh, Glorious! Glorious!”

      “Spirit,” said Scrooge, “Something informs me that our moment of parting is at hand.  I know it, but I know not how.  Tell me what man that was we saw lying dead?”      The Ghost of Christmas Yet To Come conveyed him, as before—though at a different time, he thought; indeed, there seemed noContinue reading “Screen Scrooges: The Stone”

     She hurried out to meet him, and little Bob in his comforter—he had need of it, poor fellow—came in.  His tea was ready for him on the hob, and they all tried who should help him to it most.  Then the two young Cratchits sat upon his knees and laid, each child a littleContinue reading “Screen Scrooges: Bob In Mourning”

     The Ghost conducted him through several streets familiar to his feet; and as they went along, Scrooge looked here and there to find himself, but nowhere was he to be seen.  They entered poor Bob Cratchit’s house; the dwelling he had visited before; and found the mother and children seated around the fire.     Continue reading “Screen Scrooges: Some Tenderness”

     Again it seemed to look upon him.      “If there is any person in the town, who feels emotion caused by this man’s death,” said Scrooge quite agonized, “show that person to me, Spirit, I beseech you!”      The Phantom spread its dark robe before him for a moment, like a wing; and, withdrawingContinue reading “Screen Scrooges: Honest Emotion”

     He recoiled in terror, for the scene had changed, and now he almost touched a bed: a bare, uncurtained bed; on which, beneath a ragged sheet, there lay a something covered up, which, though it was dumb, announced itself in awful language.      The room was very dark, too dark to be observed withContinue reading “Screen Scrooges: A Dead Man”

     They left the busy scene, and went into an obscure part of the town, where Scrooge had never penetrated before although he recognized the situation, and its bad repute.  The ways were foul and narrow, the shops and houses wretched; the people half-naked, drunken, slip-shod, ugly.  Alleys and archways, like so many cesspools, disgorgedContinue reading “Screen Scrooges: Scavengers”