A Christmas Carol Classics, take 2: Seymour Hicks, The Stingiest Man, & Jim Carrey
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Luke and Elysia discuss various adaptations of A Christmas Carol, sorting through the good, bad, and ugly versions.
'Tis the season for the many flavors of A Christmas Carol to rear their heads – the good, the bad, and the ugly. Luke and Elysia sort the wheat from the chaff (and all the in betweens) in their second round of tackling the classic adaptations. Films discussed this episode: Scrooge (1913) – silent short Scrooge (1935) – first feature-length talkie The Stingiest Man in Town (1956) – "lost" (and found) TV musical – album version: Spotify ( without narration ), Deezer The Stingiest Man in Town (1975) – Rankin/Bass animated short – YouTube doc short Disney's A Christmas Carol (2009) – the animated one with Jim Carrey Coming next episode: Dark Christmas Carols: FX's A Christmas Carol (2019) vs. Carol for Another Christmas (1964) This season's final episode: More Christmas Carol Twists – Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol (1962), An American Christmas Carol (1979), Ebenezer (1998), Christmas Above the Clouds (2025), Christmas Karma (2025) Catch up on the "five staves" of last year's Dickens specials... I – It all begins with the short opening notes episode , which sets the stage for all our Dickens Christmas coverage II – The Dickens novella A Christmas Carol , and an audio drama of his short…
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