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,” ...

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Over the years since Charles Dickens first published A Christmas Carol in 1843, there have been hundreds of adaptations, from silent to sound and animated films to stage productions. Hundreds of ...

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 been hailed as the “definitive” screen version of Dickens’ much-loved Christmas classic and the adaptation the author would have been most proud of. Exactly 70 years ago Scrooge, starring ...

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 ...

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 ...

Bah Humbug. Bah Ha-Ha. Bah Horror. When it comes to Dickens’ classic “A Christmas Carol,” how do you like your Scrooge served? Are you partial to the dramatic British version starring Alastair Sim, ...

In 1843, London publishers Chapman & Hall released A Christmas Carol. Written by Charles Dickens and illustrated by John Leech, it was inspired in part by Dickens’s anger at inequality in his country, ...