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To my mind, there are only two truly great Christmas movies: “Scrooge,” the 1951 adaptation of Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol,” starring Alastair Sim, and Frank Capra’s “It’s a Wonderful Life,” ...

The underrated "Mister Magoo's Christmas Carol" celebrates its 50th anniversary this year, a reminder of the wealth of TV and movie adaptations based on Charles Dickens' classic novella. I've tried, ...

It’s usually a tight call in Hollywood when they come to crowning the best Christmas film. Frank Capra’s It’s a Wonderful Life (1947) is hard to beat but Brian Desmond Hurst’s cinematic classic ...

Tiny Tim looks like one of the malevolent young aliens from "Village of the Damned." Bob Cratchit looks like one of the innocent bystanders you accidentally shoot during a Wii action video game. So ...

British director Brian Desmond Hurst made dozens of films over his career, but he is best known for his 1951 adaptation of Dickens's A Christmas Carol. "He was immensely proud of [the film]," said ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Charles Dickens wasn’t the first author to write about Christmas, but he is easily one of the quintessential authors — if not the quintessential — with his ...

Charles Dickens wasn’t the first author to write about Christmas, but he is easily one of the quintessential authors – if not the quintessential – with his 1843 novella ‘A Christmas Carol,’ which has ...

When Charles Dickens published “A Christmas Carol” in 1843, movies and TV were still far off in the distance. So there’s no way he could have ever imagined that his tightfisted anti-hero, Ebenezer ...