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...Director and narrator of The Trail to Christmas, Hollywood's James Stewart spun a seasonal western yarn about an hombre named Ebenezer Scrooge, "the richest man in the whole territory." Sure enough, Dickens' A Christmas Carol made itself right at home on the range. When Bob Cratchit, a cowhand squatting on Scrooge's land, made his entrance, Scrooge snapped: "Where've you been? Rustlin' some of my cattle? It don't seem you're ever at the ranch when I come by." Marley's ghost wore a ten-gallon hat, toted...
...late Lionel Barrymore. The production was technically instructive for viewers interested in makeup techniques-the line dividing March's real nose from Scrooge's putty one was visible through most of the hour-long show-and the dinner table in the house of poor, starving Bob Cratchit (Bob Sweeney) was so laden with food that it needed only Henry VIII to waddle in and begin throwing haunches of venison to his hunting hounds...
...striped Teddy bear on her visit to the North Pole. In other cities, there were kitchen angels busily preparing yuletide feasts, velvet and lace dolls in 1890 snowscapes, rosy-cheeked children scribbling letters to Santa, handsome windows showing Dickens' Christmas Carol, with lifelike figures of Tiny Tim, Bob Cratchit and Old Scrooge...
...boyhood and shows why Scrooge went bad--a father who hated him, a sister whose love for her husband killed her, and a growing realization that the world was a rough place. The Ghost of Christmas Present shows dishevelled, wide-eyed Scrooge, the pathetic picture of Bob Cratchit's family, which could be happy though poor. But most effective, both to Scrooge and the audience, is the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come who never speaks but just points to Scrooge's old love (now working in a poor house), to Bob Crachit's family (mourning the death of Tiny...
...plays the succulent part of Scrooge with delightful gusto, whether barking at charity solicitors, cringing before ghosts, demoniacally fleecing a business associate or lavishing favors on a startled Cratchit. Sim gets his best support from Kathleen Harrison, who expands the Dickens vignette of Scrooge's glum charwoman into a life-size comic portrait. Sample: the hilariously ghoulish scene that shows her cheerfully plying the rag & bones man with Scrooge's deathbed effects...