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Since October's horror clips round-up was such a romp, we're giving December's festivities the same treatment. With all of the saccharine, musical, happy, sad and depressive cinematic depictions of the seasons, this should be an interesting line-up.
Let's go.
Ronald Neame's 1970 musical Scrooge is my favorite Christmas film for a variety of reasons, particularly Sir Alec Guinness' portrayal of the eternally damned ghost of Jacob Marley--the former business partner of Ebenezer Scrooge, finely played (but not necessarily finely sung) by Albert Finney.
Guinness' Marley is creepy--rattling chains, wails, and all--but, he also possesses a strange humor with his woozy, gliding-through-air gait and prissy mannerisms, all of which are on display further in the bizarre "Scrooge Goes to Hell" scene (which will be detailed further in the coming weeks).
- Phil Morehart
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