Scrooge (1970 film)

Scrooge
Theatrical release poster by Joseph Bowler
Directed by	Ronald Neame
Written by	Leslie Bricusse
Based on	A Christmas Carol 1843 novella by Charles Dickens
Produced by	Robert H. Solo
Starring	Albert Finney Alec Guinness Edith Evans Kenneth More Laurence Naismith Michael Medwin David Collings Anton Rodgers Suzanne Neve
Cinematography	Oswald Morris
Edited by	Peter Weatherley
Music by	Leslie Bricusse
Production company	Cinema Center Films
Distributed by	National General Pictures (United States) 20th Century Fox (United Kingdom)[1]
Release date	5 November 1970 (1970-11-05)
Running time	113 minutes
Countries	United Kingdom United States
Language	English

Scrooge is a 1970 musical film adaptation of Charles Dickens' 1843 story A Christmas Carol. It was filmed in London between January and May 1970 and directed by Ronald Neame, and starred Albert Finney as Ebenezer Scrooge. The film's score was composed by Leslie Bricusse and arranged and conducted by Ian Fraser.

The film was a follow-up to another Dickens musical adaptation, 1968's award-winning Oliver!. Both films were shot by Oswald Morris and many of the sets at Shepperton Studios were reused for Scrooge.^[2] The posters for Scrooge included the tagline, "What the dickens have they done to Scrooge?", designed to head off any criticism of an all-singing, all-dancing old skinflint.^[3] Finney won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Musical/Comedy in 1971, and the film received four Academy Award nominations, including for Best Original Song (for "Thank You Very Much").