A Christmas Carol (1984)
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00:00:32 Old Marley was as dead as a doornail. This must be distinctly understood, or nothing wonderful can come of this story I am going to relate.
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00:02:50 Seven years ago today. What's that you say? Mr. Marley died seven years ago this very day.
00:02:57 Would it be too much to ask that you return to the work for which I pay you so handsomely?
00:03:02 Mr. Cratchit! The fire's gone cold Mr. Scrooge. Come over here Mr. Cratchit.
00:03:11 What is this? A shirt. And this? A waistcoat. And this? A coat.
00:03:24 These are garments Mr. Cratchit. Garments were invented by the human race as protection against the cold.
00:03:30 Once purchased they may be used indefinitely for the purpose for which they are intended.
00:03:36 Cold burns. Cold is momentary and cold is costly. There will be no more cold burnt in this office today.
00:03:48 Is that quite clear Mr. Cratchit? Yes sir.
00:03:51 Now please get back to work before I am forced to conclude that your services are no longer required.
00:03:57 Yes sir.
00:03:59 Merry Christmas Bob Cratchit. And the same to you Mr. Fred.
00:04:13 Merry Christmas uncle. I said Merry Christmas uncle.
00:04:19 Humbug. Christmas a humbug uncle? Surely you don't mean that?
00:04:26 I do. What's Christmas but a time for buying things for which you have no need, no money.
00:04:36 Time for finding yourself a year older not an hour richer.
00:04:42 If I could work my will every idiot who goes about with Merry Christmas on his lips should be boiled in his own pudding
00:04:51 and buried with a stake of holly through his heart.
00:04:55 Come now uncle. No you keep Christmas in your way and let me keep it in mine.
00:05:01 Keep it but you don't keep it. Let me leave it alone then.
00:05:07 Much good it may do you. Much good it has done you.
00:05:10 There are a great many things from which I might have derived good from which I have not profited I dare say.
00:05:15 Christmas among the rest.
00:05:18 I've always thought of Christmas time when it comes round as a good time.
00:05:22 A kindly, forgiving, charitable time.
00:05:25 A time when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut up hearts freely to their fellow creatures.
00:05:33 And so uncle though it has never put a scrap of gold or silver into my pocket I do believe that it has done me good.
00:05:41 And I say God bless it.
00:05:44 [knocking]
00:05:48 Another sound from you and you'll keep your Christmas by losing your situation.
00:05:55 You're quite a powerful speaker sir. I wonder you don't go into Parliament.
00:06:01 Please don't be angry uncle. Come. Dine with us Dora.
00:06:05 Dine? I'd see myself in hell for it.
00:06:09 It would be a great joy to me. And to my wife.
00:06:13 Yes your wife. I'm told she brought very little to the marriage. A poor girl.
00:06:18 I love her.
00:06:20 And she loves me.
00:06:22 Love.
00:06:24 Good afternoon nephew.
00:06:27 I want nothing from you. I ask nothing of you.
00:06:35 Why can't we be friends?
00:06:37 You are wasting my time.
00:06:40 I'm sorry to find you so resonant.
00:06:43 We've never had a quarrel so far as I know.
00:06:47 And so I shall keep my good humor and wish you a Merry Christmas.
00:06:52 Goodbye.
00:06:54 And a Happy New Year.
00:06:56 How's that fine family of yours Bob Cratchit?
00:07:00 Well sir. All very well.
00:07:02 Good. You'll give them my best wishes?
00:07:03 Yes sir I shall. Thank you for remembering them.
00:07:05 Goodbye Cratchit. Goodbye sir.
00:07:07 And a Merry Christmas.
00:07:09 Idiot.
00:07:11 He's made me late to the show.
00:07:17 I'm off to the exchange.
00:07:22 Don't lock up a moment early.
00:07:24 No sir.
00:07:26 You'll want all day tomorrow I suppose.
00:07:38 If it's quite convenient sir.
00:07:40 It's not convenient. And it's not fair.
00:07:43 If I were to hold back half a crown from your pay for it,
00:07:47 you'd think yourself ill used I'll be bound.
00:07:49 But you don't think me ill used when I pay a day's wages for no work.
00:07:54 Christmas comes but once a year sir.
00:07:57 Poor excuse for picking a man's pocket every 25th of December.
00:08:02 That I suppose you must have it.
00:08:05 Be here all the earlier the next morning Cratchit.
00:08:07 Yes sir I shall. I certainly shall.
00:08:09 Make sure. Yes sir.
00:08:11 And a Merry Christmas to you Mr. Scrooge.
00:08:14 Humbug.
00:08:16 Merry Christmas Mr. Scrooge.
00:08:31 Don't beg on this corner boy.
00:08:33 I'm not begging sir. I'm Tim. Tim Cratchit.
00:08:37 I'm waiting for my father.
00:08:39 Tim Cratchit.
00:08:41 Well then you'll have a long wait won't you.
00:08:44 Thank you sir.
00:08:46 Humbug.
00:08:48 Our Saviour Christ and His Lady on Christmas Day, on Christmas Day.
00:08:56 Our Saviour Christ and His Lady on Christmas Day in the morning.
00:09:00 Clear the road. Out of the way. Let me through.
00:09:03 Play with us now the shits all three on Christmas Day, on Christmas Day.
00:09:06 Play with us now the shits all three on Christmas Day in the morning.
00:09:10 His reason weak, his eyes is hot and sorrow all his day.
00:09:16 He went to church but was staying and not for Christmas Day.
00:09:22 So grant us all a change of heart, rejoice for merry time.
00:09:28 Praise be to our Lord to all mankind, God bless us everyone.
00:09:34 Pay 80 for January. Pay 80 for January.
00:09:37 Any open market? Any open market?
00:09:40 I'm here. I'm here.
00:09:42 Hi Ebenezer. We were afraid you weren't coming.
00:09:45 It's almost closing sir.
00:09:47 Well I'm here aren't I?
00:09:48 I said you'd be here. Didn't I say Ebenezer Scrooge you'd be here?
00:09:51 I knew you'd change your mind.
00:09:52 Right I have changed my mind.
00:09:54 Oh good then you'll take our bid.
00:09:55 The price has gone up.
00:09:56 Gone up? But that's not possible.
00:09:58 You want my corn gentlemen you must meet my quote.
00:10:01 Plus 5% for the delay.
00:10:03 That's outrageous Scrooge. You'll be left with a warehouse stuffed with corn.
00:10:07 That's my affair isn't it?
00:10:08 But if we pay your price sir, bread will be dearer. The poor will suffer.
00:10:12 Buy the corn someplace else. Good day sir.
00:10:14 Scrooge a moment. We'll take your corn at the price you quoted yesterday.
00:10:19 Too late. If you wait until tomorrow it'll cost you another 5%.
00:10:22 Dammit Scrooge it's not fair.
00:10:24 No but it's business. I'll give you a moment to make up your mind.
00:10:29 Alright Scrooge done and done.
00:10:37 Very good gentlemen.
00:10:39 Now make sure that a draft for the entire amount of this transaction is deposited with my clerk.
00:10:44 I don't ship until I have the cash in hand.
00:10:48 Good day.
00:10:51 Mr. Scrooge I presume.
00:10:53 Indeed you do sir.
00:10:54 You don't know us.
00:10:56 Nor do I wish to.
00:10:57 My name is Poole and this is Mr. Hatfield.
00:11:00 Excellent. Now if you'll allow me to pass.
00:11:02 Let me explain sir.
00:11:03 At this festive season of the year it seems desirable that those of us with means
00:11:09 should make some slight provision for the poor and destitute who suffer greatly at this time.
00:11:15 Provision? Are you seeking money from me then?
00:11:18 Many thousands are in want of common necessaries.
00:11:21 Hundreds of thousands are in want of common comforts.
00:11:23 Are there no prisons?
00:11:25 Plenty of prisons.
00:11:26 The workhouses, are they still in operation?
00:11:28 They are. I wish I could say they were not.
00:11:30 The treadmill, the poorhouses still in full vigour?
00:11:33 All very busy sir.
00:11:35 I was afraid in what you said that something had stopped them in full force.
00:11:40 A few of us are endeavouring to raise a fund to buy the poor some meat and drink and food and warmth.
00:11:46 What can we put you down for sir?
00:11:48 Nothing.
00:11:49 You wish to be anonymous?
00:11:51 I wish to be left alone.
00:11:52 Since you ask me what I wish gentlemen, that is my answer.
00:11:55 I don't make merry myself at Christmas and I can't afford to make idle people merry.
00:12:00 My taxes help to support the public institutions which I have mentioned and they cost enough.
00:12:05 Those who are badly off must go there.
00:12:08 Many can't go there and many would rather die.
00:12:12 If they would rather die, perhaps they had better do so and decrease the surplus population.
00:12:19 Surely you don't mean that sir?
00:12:20 With all my heart.
00:12:21 Now if you will go about your business gentlemen and allow me to go about mine.
00:12:26 [Bell tolls]
00:12:28 Father!
00:12:54 Tim!
00:12:55 You must be frozen!
00:12:58 I'm alright now.
00:13:00 Could we go home by Cornhill and watch the boys and girls play in the snow?
00:13:06 Of course we can.
00:13:08 Tim, I'm to have the whole day off tomorrow.
00:13:12 We'll be together, the whole family for the entire day.
00:13:17 Hurrah for Christmas, the best day of the year!
00:13:21 [Singing]
00:13:24 Look!
00:13:38 They're having such fun, Father.
00:13:41 Where are you?
00:13:43 Go and get it!
00:13:46 You'll be there one day, playing with the other children.
00:13:50 I'm quite sure I will.
00:13:52 I feel I'm getting stronger every day.
00:13:55 We must go home now.
00:14:02 Your mother will be waiting for us.
00:14:04 Yes, it's time to go home.
00:14:07 [Children playing]
00:14:11 [Children playing]
00:14:15 [Children playing]
00:14:19 [Children playing]
00:14:23 [Dogs barking]
00:14:26 [Dogs barking]
00:14:54 [Singing]
00:14:57 They're calling me.
00:15:03 Someone call my name.
00:15:08 [Thunder]
00:15:12 [Train whistle]
00:15:15 [Door slams]
00:15:26 [Train whistle]
00:15:30 [Train whistle]
00:15:33 [Cow moos]
00:15:56 [Cow moos]
00:15:59 Bloody!
00:16:02 [Door slams]
00:16:05 [Train whistle]
00:16:31 [Train whistle]
00:16:34 [Train whistle]
00:16:38 [Door slams]
00:16:41 [Train whistle]
00:16:50 [Train whistle]
00:16:59 [Train whistle]
00:17:27 [Train whistle]
00:17:55 [Door slams]
00:17:58 [Door slams]
00:18:02 [Door slams]
00:18:05 [Train whistle]
00:18:08 [Train whistle]
00:18:23 [Sniffs]
00:18:26 [Sniffs]
00:18:46 [Train whistle]
00:18:49 I'm back.
00:19:03 [Bell rings]
00:19:07 [Bell rings]
00:19:10 [Glass shatters]
00:19:23 [Glass shatters]
00:19:27 [Glass shatters]
00:19:33 [Glass shatters]
00:19:36 [Glass shatters]
00:19:43 [Glass shatters]
00:19:47 [Speaking in foreign language]
00:19:54 [Train whistle]
00:19:57 [Glass shatters]
00:20:02 [Glass shatters]
00:20:05 What do you want with me?
00:20:18 Much!
00:20:25 Who are you?
00:20:27 Ask me who I was.
00:20:29 [Chuckles] You're particular for a ghost.
00:20:32 Who are you, then?
00:20:34 In life, I was your partner, Jacob Marlin.
00:20:38 Can you sit down?
00:20:41 I can.
00:20:43 Well, do it, then.
00:20:45 [Glass shatters]
00:20:56 [Glass shatters]
00:20:59 You don't believe in me.
00:21:03 I don't.
00:21:05 What evidence would you have of my reality beyond that of your own senses?
00:21:11 I don't know.
00:21:13 Why do you doubt your senses?
00:21:16 Because a little thing affects them, a slight disorder of the stomach.
00:21:21 You might be a bit of bad beef, a blot of mustard, a fragment of an underdone potato.
00:21:27 [Chuckles]
00:21:29 There's more of gravy than of grave about you, whatever you are.
00:21:32 Humbug, I tell you, humbug!
00:21:34 [Screaming]
00:21:37 Mercy.
00:21:40 Dreadful apparition. Why do you trouble me?
00:21:43 Man of the worldly mind, do you believe in me or not?
00:21:48 I do, I must!
00:21:50 But why do spirits walk the earth? Why do you come to me?
00:21:54 It is required of every man that the spirit within him should walk abroad among his fellow men and travel far and wide.
00:22:04 And if that spirit goes not forth in life, it is condemned to do so after death.
00:22:10 It is doomed to wander through the world and witness what it cannot share...
00:22:17 ...but might have shared...
00:22:20 ...and turned to heaviness.
00:22:23 [Screaming]
00:22:26 Chained. Tell me why.
00:22:30 I wear the chain I forged in life.
00:22:34 I made it link by link and yard by yard.
00:22:41 Is it fat and strange to you, or would you know the weight and length of the strong coil you bear yourself?
00:22:48 It was as full, as heavy, and as long as this seven Christmas Eves ago.
00:22:55 You have labored on it since. It is a ponderous chain!
00:22:59 Christina chain?
00:23:03 Mine were invisible until the day of my death.
00:23:08 As yours shall be.
00:23:11 Jacob.
00:23:13 Tell me more. Speak. Comfort to me.
00:23:18 I have none to give.
00:23:20 My spirit never walked beyond our counting house.
00:23:28 In life, my spirit never roved beyond the narrow limits of our money-changing hole.
00:23:36 No doubt of that. You always were a good man of business.
00:23:39 Business?
00:23:41 Mankind was my business.
00:23:44 The common welfare was my business.
00:23:47 Charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence were all my business.
00:23:53 The dealings of my trade were but a drop of water in the comprehensive ocean of my business.
00:24:01 I'm sorry for you, Jacob.
00:24:03 Is there anything I can do for you?
00:24:06 For me? Nay. It is too late.
00:24:11 But I have come for your sake, Ebenezer.
00:24:18 Have you? Well, you always were a good friend.
00:24:22 As part of my penance, I have been sent to warn you.
00:24:29 And so you have.
00:24:31 I offer you a hope and chance of escaping my fate.
00:24:36 You will be haunted by three spirits.
00:24:39 Three spirits?
00:24:41 Is that the chance and hope you mention?
00:24:44 It is.
00:24:46 Well, in that case, I think I'd rather not.
00:24:49 Expect the first tonight when the bell tolls one.
00:24:55 Couldn't they all come at the same time, Jacob, and have it over?
00:24:59 Expect the second on the stroke of two.
00:25:04 The third, more mercurial, shall appear in his own good time.
00:25:10 Look to me no more.
00:25:19 Look that you may remember what has passed between us.
00:25:26 [BELL TOLLING]
00:25:30 [SCREAMING]
00:25:41 [SCREAMING]
00:26:08 Hound dog.
00:26:10 Something I ate?
00:26:38 [BELL TOLLING]
00:26:42 [BELL TOLLING]
00:27:09 One.
00:27:12 What was it Molly said?
00:27:17 Nothing.
00:27:23 Just a dream, then.
00:27:29 [WIND BLOWING]
00:27:32 Are you the spirit whose coming was foretold to me?
00:27:51 I am.
00:27:53 Who and what are you?
00:27:55 I am the ghost of Christmas past.
00:27:58 Long past?
00:27:59 No, your past.
00:28:03 Perhaps you would do me the favor of placing upon your head that cap that you hold in your hand.
00:28:09 I bring the light of truth.
00:28:12 Would you use this cap to put it out?
00:28:16 I beg your pardon, I had no intention of offending.
00:28:20 What business brings you here?
00:28:24 It is for your welfare that I appear.
00:28:28 I can think of no greater welfare than a night of uninterrupted sleep.
00:28:33 Be careful, Ebenezer Scrooge. I speak of your reclamation.
00:28:38 Well, if it's reclamation, then let's get on with it.
00:28:43 Come.
00:28:53 We shall be invisible and silent as a grave.
00:28:58 You will now see a child, a youth.
00:29:04 You will see yourself, Ebenezer.
00:29:08 The air is so clean. How different from the city.
00:29:15 Do you know where you are?
00:29:18 Of course. I was bred here. I was a boy in this place.
00:29:23 That's Daniel Costes. Robert Estes. Hello, Daniel.
00:29:30 The big one there, that's David. Tyler. David! Look here, it's Ebenezer!
00:29:39 I told you, Ebenezer, they can't hear you.
00:29:43 How happy they all seem.
00:29:45 That's right, they do. Yes, well, it's time to move on.
00:29:50 Come along, Ebenezer. You know the way.
00:29:53 I could walk it blindfolded.
00:29:57 Your school. I remember.
00:30:02 And it's Christmas Day.
00:30:05 There's a boy in there, neglected.
00:30:08 The boy is deserted by his friends and his family.
00:30:13 His mother is dead. His father holds him aggrudged.
00:30:16 Why does his father hold him aggrudged?
00:30:19 She died in childbirth. His birth.
00:30:23 Weep for the boy if the tears will come.
00:30:27 Here's his friends, even on the stay.
00:30:31 From his beloved books.
00:30:34 There's Ali Baba. Dear old, honest Ali Baba.
00:30:39 And a Sultan's groom, turned upside down with a genie.
00:30:43 But not a real child to talk to. Not a living person.
00:30:47 Robinson Crusoe, not real.
00:30:50 And Friday, and the parrot, with a green body and yellow tail, not real.
00:30:56 He made do, this boy.
00:30:59 Let us see another Christmas Day.
00:31:02 When you were a youth.
00:31:06 There.
00:31:08 - Fanny! - Dear, dear brother!
00:31:15 I've come to bring you home, dear brother.
00:31:21 To bring you home. Home!
00:31:25 Home, little Fanny?
00:31:31 Yes. Home for good and all.
00:31:35 Father's much kinder than he used to be.
00:31:39 He spoke to me so gently one day a night...
00:31:42 that I was not afraid to ask once more if you might come home.
00:31:45 And he said, "Yes, you should."
00:31:47 And sent me in a coach to bring you.
00:31:58 You're quite a woman, little Fanny.
00:32:01 And you, you are to be a man now.
00:32:05 And never come back here.
00:32:09 Come along. We mustn't keep Father waiting.
00:32:13 - Father! - There, boy. There.
00:32:20 Stand still now. I mean, look at you.
00:32:23 They haven't been overfeeding you, that's certain.
00:32:27 I've grown, I think.
00:32:30 Yes, most boys do.
00:32:33 - Fanny's told you you won't be moving back here. - Yes, sir.
00:32:36 It's time you made your way in the world.
00:32:38 I've arranged an apprenticeship for you.
00:32:40 You'll move into Mr. Fezziwig's establishment in three days' time.
00:32:43 Three days, Father? I'd hoped we'd have my brother home for longer.
00:32:47 Longer? Three days is quite long enough for both of us.
00:32:52 Don't you think, Ebenezer?
00:32:55 Yes, sir.
00:32:58 Quite long enough.
00:33:01 - You finished back there? - All safe and secure, sir.
00:33:07 Into the carriage, fam.
00:33:10 Down our way.
00:33:14 Into the carriage, boy.
00:33:18 (Door slams)
00:33:20 Giddyap.
00:33:28 Fanny pleaded for more time, but my father was a very stern man.
00:33:35 - Fanny. - She died a young woman.
00:33:40 She had such a generous nature. Yes, too young.
00:33:43 Old enough to bear a child.
00:33:46 - One son. - Fred, your nephew.
00:33:49 Fred Holloway, yes.
00:33:51 Who bears a strong resemblance to your sister.
00:33:54 Does he? I never noticed.
00:33:57 You never noticed?
00:33:59 I'm beginning to think you've gone through life with your eyes closed.
00:34:02 Open them. Open them wide.
00:34:12 - You know this man? - It's old Fezziwig.
00:34:16 Oh, yes, my dear.
00:34:18 Would you ask Mr. Pulling to refer that matter to Mr. Scrooge?
00:34:22 Thank you, my dear.
00:34:24 And you know this place?
00:34:26 No, it was I not apprenticed here.
00:34:29 Yoo-hoo.
00:34:31 Pay attention, everybody. Dick, Ebenezer, pens down.
00:34:35 No more work tonight, boys. It is Christmas Eve.
00:34:39 So, close those ledgers down, Ebenezer and Dick.
00:34:42 Clear away in here, everybody. We need the room.
00:34:46 Here we go, lad.
00:34:48 You'll enjoy yourself tonight, Master Ebenezer. That is an order.
00:34:52 - Yes, sir, I'll try. - Put your heart in it.
00:34:55 You put enough of yourself into your work, and I have nothing but praise...
00:34:58 for the way you've discharged your duties.
00:35:00 But you're young. There's more to life than bolts of cloth...
00:35:04 and musty old ledgers.
00:35:06 (ALL CHEERING)
00:35:09 It's Mrs. Fezziwig and her three daughters in their suitors.
00:35:15 Merry Christmas to you all.
00:35:18 Oh, Bill.
00:35:20 I had forgotten how beautiful she was.
00:35:25 - Hello, Bill. - Hello.
00:35:32 - Would you like to dance? - Yes.
00:35:35 (ALL CHEERING)
00:35:39 (ALL CHATTERING)
00:35:43 (ALL CHATTERING)
00:36:10 How long since you danced, Ebenezer?
00:36:13 - A waste of time, dancing. - You didn't think so then?
00:36:19 There was a reason then.
00:36:22 There's been a change in you since you came to Fezziwig's. You were so gloomy.
00:36:26 I think I should warn you, Miss Bell. I am of a serious bent of mind.
00:36:31 I consider seriousness to be an admirable trait of character, but it can be overdone.
00:36:37 I should take heed of your advice, ma'am, and go through life with a grin on my face.
00:36:42 (ALL CHEERING)
00:36:48 Come along, you two. They're striking up Sir Roger de Covelly.
00:37:03 Time enough to sample the punch when you're old and fat like me, eh?
00:37:07 I'd best partner my wife before that young scamp goes dancing off with her.
00:37:12 What a difference it makes, Ebenezer, to travel the rough road of life
00:37:16 with the right female to help bear the burden, eh?
00:37:20 What a lucky man I am!
00:37:23 Shall we join the others, Ebenezer?
00:37:28 My pleasure, Miss Bell.
00:37:31 (ALL CHATTERING)
00:37:34 Old Fezziwig, a silly man.
00:37:55 Silly? Why silly?
00:38:00 What did he do, after all, to deserve the praises of those apprentices?
00:38:04 Spent a few pounds, danced like a monkey,
00:38:08 beamed a great smile.
00:38:11 Well, the happiness he gave...
00:38:14 I gave was quite as great as though it had cost a thousand pounds.
00:38:19 Just small things.
00:38:28 - Bell. - Are you in love, Ebenezer?
00:38:31 Mmm.
00:38:34 - The thought had occurred to me... - She's too good for you.
00:38:38 One day, when I've made my fortune,
00:38:42 then I'll deserve her.
00:38:44 It was a night never to be forgotten.
00:38:47 Never.
00:38:49 - But you did forget often. - Who?
00:38:54 Look, another Christmas Eve,
00:38:58 delayed by the pressure of business.
00:39:01 - Do you remember? - No.
00:39:04 - Hello, Bell. - Now do you remember?
00:39:13 I'm sorry I'm late.
00:39:15 I thought you might not come. I know how busy you are.
00:39:19 Well...
00:39:23 At the time of year, and the nature of my business,
00:39:27 it's important now that I use my time and opportunities wisely.
00:39:31 Another idol has displaced me.
00:39:34 - What idol has displaced you? - A golden one.
00:39:38 All your hopes have merged into a master passion, profit.
00:39:43 The thought of money engrosses you.
00:39:46 Perhaps I've become wiser.
00:39:49 But I've not changed towards you.
00:39:52 Our contract is an old one.
00:39:55 It was made when we were young, and our prospects limited.
00:39:59 How often I've thought of those times.
00:40:03 If there had been no understanding between us,
00:40:07 would you seek me out and try to win me now?
00:40:10 A dowerless girl with nothing but myself to bring to a marriage.
00:40:15 You have no answer.
00:40:21 You think I would not, then?
00:40:23 Oh, Ebenezer, what a safe and terrible answer.
00:40:26 So characteristic of the careful man.
00:40:29 Ebenezer, I release you.
00:40:34 You are a free man.
00:40:37 I let you go with a full heart.
00:40:41 May you be happy in the life you have chosen.
00:40:44 I'm sorry.
00:40:46 I almost went after her.
00:41:00 Almost carries no weight,
00:41:03 especially in matters of the heart.
00:41:06 And you did have a heart, didn't you, Ebenezer?
00:41:10 Why didn't you follow her?
00:41:14 Upon his death, my father left me a small inheritance.
00:41:18 Belle wished to be married, insisting that we could get along on very little.
00:41:22 I wanted something more for both of us.
00:41:25 So I lent out that money.
00:41:28 Laid the foundations for financial success, which I have achieved, I may add.
00:41:33 Congratulations.
00:41:35 Thank you not to sneer.
00:41:37 Spirit, show me no more. Conduct me home.
00:41:39 You have explained what you gained.
00:41:42 Now I will show you what you have lost.
00:41:45 Belle.
00:41:51 Belle.
00:41:53 And those are her children.
00:41:55 Oh, darling, he's wonderful, isn't he?
00:41:59 Oh, Lord, what a brood.
00:42:02 (HORSE GALLOPING)
00:42:04 (CHATTER)
00:42:13 Hello, hello.
00:42:15 Hello, my dear.
00:42:17 Hello, Papa. Where's my present? Where's my present?
00:42:20 You will have to wait until tonight.
00:42:23 All of you, presents on Christmas Eve, as usual.
00:42:27 Fancy.
00:42:30 They might have been mine.
00:42:32 The same thought occurred to me.
00:42:34 I saw an old friend of yours in the city this afternoon.
00:42:37 Who was it? Guess.
00:42:39 I can't.
00:42:41 I don't know.
00:42:44 Ebenezer Scrooge.
00:42:46 Mr Scrooge it was.
00:42:48 I passed his office window and it was not shuttered.
00:42:51 He had a single candle lit upon his desk.
00:42:54 His partner, Jacob Marley, lies on the point of death, I hear.
00:42:58 And there he sat, Ebenezer Scrooge, alone.
00:43:01 Quite alone in the world, I do believe.
00:43:04 Poor Ebenezer.
00:43:07 Poor wretched man.
00:43:09 Spare me your pity. I have no need of it.
00:43:12 They can't hear you.
00:43:14 And as for you, I've had enough of your pictures from the past.
00:43:19 Leave me!
00:43:22 Haunt me no longer!
00:43:26 Truth lives!
00:43:28 Truth lives!
00:43:31 Truth lives!
00:43:34 Truth lives!
00:43:37 Truth lives!
00:43:39 A nightmare.
00:43:58 A horrible nightmare.
00:44:05 Oh, God.
00:44:09 Let me sleep.
00:44:13 Let me sleep in peace.
00:44:19 Peace.
00:44:26 Yeah.
00:44:29 [Bell tolling]
00:44:32 [Bell tolling]
00:45:00 Two.
00:45:02 Well, Jacob Marley.
00:45:07 Where is this spirit of which you spoke so glibly?
00:45:12 You did say at the stroke of two, didn't you, Jacob?
00:45:17 Mistaken in death.
00:45:25 As you were in life, old partner.
00:45:29 [Groans]
00:45:31 Ebenezer Scrooge!
00:45:37 Ebenezer Scrooge!
00:45:43 Come in!
00:45:52 I intend to.
00:45:56 [Laughs]
00:45:58 [Laughs]
00:46:05 Come in and know me, bitter man.
00:46:08 [Laughs]
00:46:11 You've never seen the likes of me before, eh?
00:46:17 It's quite true, I have not.
00:46:21 You never walked forth with any of the younger members of my family?
00:46:26 No, not that I remember.
00:46:28 Nor any of my elder brothers born these later years?
00:46:32 I'm afraid not, no.
00:46:36 Do you have many brothers, spirit?
00:46:40 [Laughs]
00:46:42 Over 1,800!
00:46:44 [Laughs]
00:46:48 Tremendous family to provide for.
00:46:51 Take hold of my robe, Ebenezer Scrooge.
00:46:56 [Music]
00:46:59 What day is it now?
00:47:23 Don't you know?
00:47:25 Christmas morning!
00:47:28 [Music]
00:47:30 [Chatter]
00:47:50 [Screaming]
00:47:53 There's a lot of buying, isn't there?
00:48:06 Oh, Ebenezer, is that all you can see?
00:48:10 Follow me, and I'll show you to what good use these wares can be put.
00:48:16 Is there some peculiar power which emanates from your torch?
00:48:20 Oh, yes. There is.
00:48:23 [Music]
00:48:27 Do you know this house?
00:48:38 No, I can't say I do.
00:48:40 It is the house of Bob Cratchit.
00:48:43 Is it?
00:48:44 He does very well on 15 Bob a week.
00:48:47 Shall we go in?
00:48:49 I would not disturb.
00:48:52 As with Christmas past, we shall be invisible and unheard.
00:48:57 I wonder what's keeping your father?
00:49:02 He's probably stopped to talk to the parson.
00:49:04 Father always likes to compliment him on his sermons.
00:49:07 I do hope the pudding's a success this year.
00:49:10 No one makes a better pudding than you, Mother.
00:49:13 Peter, save some for the rest of the family.
00:49:17 Just testing the cooking, Mother.
00:49:19 I'm sure they'll manage very well in the room without your help, young man.
00:49:22 Hello, Mother.
00:49:23 Hello, Mother.
00:49:24 Smell the goose cooking, Martha.
00:49:26 Yes, it makes my mouth water.
00:49:28 Mine too. I can't wait.
00:49:30 Well, you'll just have to.
00:49:32 Now run along with Martha and help her butter the bread thinly.
00:49:35 Here they are.
00:49:37 Merry Christmas, everyone.
00:49:42 Hello, Mother.
00:49:43 Oh, and you're quite like an icicle, Tim.
00:49:46 You've been dawdling.
00:49:47 Father had a long talk with the minister.
00:49:50 Thought as much.
00:49:52 Come, Tim. Listen to the pudding hissing on the fire.
00:49:55 It's like a giant snake inside the copper.
00:49:58 Go along with your brother and sister, Tim. We'll begin the wine.
00:50:01 Off you go, then.
00:50:03 Come on.
00:50:05 How did you behave in church?
00:50:07 As good as gold.
00:50:09 Better.
00:50:11 I was very worried if it'll turn out all right.
00:50:13 Look how they support him.
00:50:15 What did you say?
00:50:17 Nothing. It's, um...
00:50:20 Nothing.
00:50:22 Somehow he gets thoughtful sitting by himself so much.
00:50:25 He thinks of strangest things.
00:50:27 He told me coming home that he hoped that the people in church saw him
00:50:31 because he was a cripple
00:50:33 and that it might be pleasant for them to remember on Christmas Day
00:50:37 who it was that made lame beggars walk and blind men see.
00:50:42 It seems to me that Tim is getting stronger every day,
00:50:47 that his limbs are growing,
00:50:49 that he's in better spirits, it seems to me.
00:50:52 Yes, Bob. I'm sure you're right.
00:50:55 He is getting stronger.
00:50:57 Well, we're all here. That's the important thing.
00:51:01 Belinda, help me with the goose.
00:51:04 Yes, Mother.
00:51:06 (door opens)
00:51:08 Peter, I have some good news for you.
00:51:15 I met by chance this morning at church a fine gentleman,
00:51:19 Fred Holywell by name.
00:51:21 He's a nephew of our own Mr Scrooge.
00:51:23 He remembered that I have a son coming of working age
00:51:26 and he told me that he had a position open
00:51:28 starting at three shillings and sixpence every week.
00:51:31 Three shillings and sixpence every week?
00:51:34 So, if you are agreeable, you may start work on Monday next.
00:51:39 Now I can begin to help you and Mother.
00:51:41 More important, you shall be embarking on a fine career.
00:51:46 To start a boy at three and sixpence a week.
00:51:50 (clicks tongue)
00:51:51 It's typical of my nephew.
00:51:53 No wonder he's never been able to put by a penny.
00:51:56 Perhaps he's put by more than money.
00:51:58 Fred? Huh!
00:52:00 He's doing this to spite me, you know.
00:52:03 Employing the son of my employee at an exorbitant wage.
00:52:08 (children shouting)
00:52:14 Quiet, quiet, quiet, children, quiet.
00:52:18 (gasps)
00:52:19 What?
00:52:20 He's not for an army.
00:52:22 Soap around and crisp. Mother, you have done your say.
00:52:24 Is it all right then?
00:52:25 Hurry, Father, cut the goose.
00:52:27 I can't wait.
00:52:28 (knocks)
00:52:29 Haven't we forgotten something?
00:52:32 Lord, we thank you for the bounty you have placed before us.
00:52:37 We thank you for this day of love and joy.
00:52:40 We thank you for allowing us to be together,
00:52:43 to share with each other and with you
00:52:45 the fullness of our hearts on this special day.
00:52:49 Amen.
00:52:50 Amen.
00:52:51 Amen.
00:52:52 Amen.
00:52:53 Amen.
00:52:54 What?
00:52:55 Did you say something?
00:52:57 No, no.
00:52:59 No, I thought I heard you.
00:53:02 No, I said nothing.
00:53:04 Oh.
00:53:06 (chatter)
00:53:12 Alice.
00:53:14 (chatter)
00:53:17 Potato Alice.
00:53:19 A very small goose.
00:53:21 It's all Bob Cratchit can afford.
00:53:24 Me.
00:53:26 Are we all served?
00:53:29 Yes, thank you.
00:53:30 Then let's begin.
00:53:32 And a Merry Christmas to us all.
00:53:34 A Merry Christmas to us all.
00:53:36 And God bless us, everyone.
00:53:39 (glasses clinking)
00:53:41 (music)
00:53:51 Tell me, spirit.
00:53:54 Will he live?
00:53:57 I see a vacant place at this table.
00:54:01 I see a crutch without an owner, carefully preserved.
00:54:06 If these shadows remain unaltered by the future,
00:54:11 the child will die.
00:54:13 No.
00:54:15 No, say it will be spared.
00:54:18 If these shadows remain unaltered by the future,
00:54:21 none other of my species will find him here.
00:54:24 But if he is to die, then let him die
00:54:28 and decrease the surplus population.
00:54:32 You use my own words against me.
00:54:37 So perhaps in the future you will hold your tongue
00:54:42 until you have discovered what the surplus population is
00:54:46 and where it is.
00:54:49 It may well be that in the sight of heaven
00:54:52 you are more worthless and less fit to live
00:54:56 than millions like this poor man's child.
00:55:00 (music)
00:55:05 (cheering)
00:55:07 (applause)
00:55:12 (inhales)
00:55:14 (sips)
00:55:16 (clicks)
00:55:19 A triumph, my dear, another triumph.
00:55:42 (laughter)
00:55:44 I told you so, Mother.
00:55:46 Well, it's a success.
00:55:48 What a relief for Mrs. Cratchit.
00:55:51 Now their feast is over.
00:55:53 Not quite.
00:55:54 Just one more ceremonious moment.
00:55:58 Look.
00:56:00 (music)
00:56:05 (clicks)
00:56:06 (music)
00:56:09 Now I would like to propose a toast
00:56:12 to Mr. Ebenezer Scrooge, the founder of our feast.
00:56:16 Mr. Scrooge.
00:56:18 Ah, the founder of our feast indeed.
00:56:27 I wish I had him here.
00:56:29 I'd give him a piece of my mind to feast upon
00:56:31 and hope he had a good appetite for it.
00:56:33 My dear, the children, it's Christmas Day.
00:56:36 It should be Christmas Day
00:56:38 when one would drink the health of such a stingy,
00:56:41 odious, mean, hard, unfeeling man
00:56:44 as Mr. Ebenezer Scrooge.
00:56:46 My dear, have some charity.
00:56:49 Oh, well.
00:56:56 I'll drink his health for your sake
00:57:01 and the day's sake,
00:57:03 but not for his.
00:57:07 Long life, Mr. Ebenezer Scrooge.
00:57:10 A merry Christmas and a happy New Year.
00:57:13 I have no doubt his Christmas will be very merry
00:57:17 and he'll be very happy.
00:57:19 Mr. Scrooge.
00:57:21 Mr. Scrooge.
00:57:22 Mr. Scrooge.
00:57:24 Mr. Scrooge.
00:57:26 Mr. Scrooge.
00:57:27 Mr. Scrooge.
00:57:29 He's made a point. Bob Cratchit has.
00:57:36 Without me, there would be no feast,
00:57:39 no goose at all.
00:57:41 My head for business has furnished him employment.
00:57:44 Is that all you've learned
00:57:46 by observing this family on Christmas Day?
00:57:49 Oh, no, not all,
00:57:51 but one must speak up for oneself, for one's life.
00:57:54 (children laughing)
00:57:56 # Here we come a-whistling among the leaves so green
00:58:00 # Here we come a-wandering so fair to receive
00:58:04 # Love and joy come to you and a merry Christmas too
00:58:08 # And God bless you and send you a happy New Year
00:58:12 We have some time left.
00:58:14 Take my robe.
00:58:16 # Love and joy come to you and a merry Christmas too
00:58:20 # And God bless you and send you a happy New Year
00:58:24 # And God send you a happy New Year #
00:58:28 # Oh, honey, am I I think
00:58:33 # When we're at the ball... #
00:58:35 Where are we now?
00:58:37 Just a street. Any street.
00:58:40 This house.
00:58:42 We'll go in here.
00:58:44 Think it might amuse you.
00:58:46 I'm in no mood to be amused.
00:58:49 (laughing)
00:58:51 # ...in the green... #
00:58:53 (children laughing)
00:58:55 # ...in the green... #
00:58:57 (children laughing)
00:58:59 # ...in the green... #
00:59:02 (laughing)
00:59:04 Dear husband, do you find my playing so amusing?
00:59:07 I'm sorry, my love.
00:59:09 I was thinking of his face yesterday.
00:59:11 Humbug, he said. Humbug.
00:59:13 He said that Christmas was a humbug.
00:59:15 He believed it, too.
00:59:17 I'd very much like to meet your uncle, sir.
00:59:20 The drow way which you portray him tickles my heart.
00:59:23 He's a comical fellow.
00:59:25 But not so pleasant as he might be.
00:59:27 His offences carry their own punishment.
00:59:29 Dear brother-in-law, it's said he's very rich.
00:59:32 Yes, well, that is very true.
00:59:34 But his wealth is of no use to him.
00:59:36 He doesn't do any good with it.
00:59:38 He doesn't even make himself comfortable with it.
00:59:40 I don't squander. What do you mean by comfortable?
00:59:42 You mustn't argue with those we visit.
00:59:44 It's useless and even tactless.
00:59:46 Tact is quite a dire dispuff.
00:59:48 That I can see.
00:59:50 I have no patience with him.
00:59:52 Well, I have, and I feel sorry for him.
00:59:54 Sorry for me?
00:59:56 Who suffers from his ill whims?
00:59:58 He takes it in his heart to dislike us
01:00:00 and not come and dine with us.
01:00:02 And he loses a very good dinner indeed.
01:00:04 The reason I talk about my uncle, sir,
01:00:07 is that my mother, God rest her saintly soul,
01:00:10 was very fond of him.
01:00:12 She loved him.
01:00:14 It's true.
01:00:16 Faye loved me, and I her.
01:00:19 Dear Faye,
01:00:21 I wish you were alive today.
01:00:24 Fred looks very like her.
01:00:27 Yes, I'm...
01:00:29 being reminded of that just recently.
01:00:33 I was only going to say that the consequences
01:00:36 of his taking a dislike to us
01:00:38 and not making merry with us
01:00:40 is that he loses some pleasant moments,
01:00:42 which could do him no harm.
01:00:44 And I mean to give him the same chance every year,
01:00:48 whether he likes it or not.
01:00:50 And every year he'll say,
01:00:52 "Christmas, bah!"
01:00:54 Bah!
01:00:56 Come, my dear, we must see to our guests.
01:01:00 Come here. Would you like some loo?
01:01:03 Boys are bad.
01:01:06 Can't help myself think.
01:01:08 Well, they seem to be happy.
01:01:10 Well, I suppose that free food and drink
01:01:12 would be an occasion for pleasure to most people.
01:01:14 Happy in each other's company, I mean.
01:01:17 Everyone, hush now. We shall have a game.
01:01:19 A word game.
01:01:21 What's it be?
01:01:23 A game of similis.
01:01:25 Does everyone know the rules to similis?
01:01:27 All right, everyone, now you shall each have five seconds to answer.
01:01:30 I'll ask the question. Mr Topper, your key count.
01:01:32 Well, I shall do my best.
01:01:34 Now, you'll each have five seconds to answer.
01:01:37 If you fail to give an acceptable answer within that time,
01:01:40 then you must each stand behind your chair.
01:01:42 The last one who's seated wins the prize.
01:01:45 Fred, don't go on so. Just begin.
01:01:47 I'm sorry, my love. Yes, I shall.
01:01:49 Yes, I shall.
01:01:51 Um...
01:01:53 Proud as?
01:01:55 Proud as a peacock.
01:01:57 Dry as?
01:02:01 As a bone.
01:02:03 Plump as?
01:02:05 My wife.
01:02:07 Sorry, my love. Just a little joke.
01:02:09 One... Two seconds.
01:02:13 A partridge.
01:02:15 Ah!
01:02:17 Quick as?
01:02:19 Oh... Wind.
01:02:21 No!
01:02:23 One, two, three, four, five.
01:02:27 A wink, you idiot.
01:02:29 A beneath that.
01:02:31 You said they could neither see nor hear us.
01:02:33 That's quite true.
01:02:35 Oh, yes, yes, sorry.
01:02:37 Even I forget the regulations sometime.
01:02:39 After all, I do not come back very often.
01:02:42 Shh! I'm trying to listen to the game.
01:02:44 Modest as?
01:02:47 A maiden.
01:02:49 No.
01:02:51 Well, I'm sure it's a well-known simile.
01:02:53 Well, I was thinking of modest as a violet.
01:02:55 Oh, Fred.
01:02:57 However, I will accept your answer.
01:02:59 Janet.
01:03:01 A toad.
01:03:05 Tight as?
01:03:07 Tight as...
01:03:09 A drum. Anyone knows that.
01:03:11 Tight as?
01:03:13 I'm not very bright, my nephew's waken.
01:03:15 Tight as your uncle Scrooge's purse strings.
01:03:18 Oh, Janet, that's quite wrong.
01:03:22 And your time is up.
01:03:24 You've lost and you must stand behind your chair.
01:03:26 Tight as a drum.
01:03:28 That's what I was thinking of.
01:03:30 Good for you, Fred.
01:03:32 The boy's got a head on his shoulders.
01:03:34 And as for the laughter at my expense,
01:03:36 I'm inclined to overlook it if you're the general gaiety of the evening.
01:03:39 It is now time to leave this pleasant scene.
01:03:42 We have one more visit to make before my time is done.
01:03:45 Take hold of my robe.
01:03:47 Sly as?
01:03:49 A fox.
01:03:51 Red as?
01:03:53 Red as a rose.
01:03:55 Silent as?
01:03:57 The night.
01:03:59 No, I'm out.
01:04:01 The grave.
01:04:03 Where are we now?
01:04:05 I'm sure I don't know this place.
01:04:07 The name would mean nothing to you.
01:04:09 It's a place
01:04:11 in this world.
01:04:13 Do we have enough wood for the night?
01:04:19 It'll last through.
01:04:21 At least there's one thing still free in this country.
01:04:23 Mary, Peter, they're cooked.
01:04:29 They're too hot.
01:04:31 It'll be cold soon enough.
01:04:33 Where did you get these, Father?
01:04:35 I didn't steal them, if that's what you're saying.
01:04:37 She didn't say you stole them, Ben.
01:04:39 Show some respect.
01:04:41 They berate the girl.
01:04:43 They fell from a cart into the road.
01:04:45 Your father's not a thief, girl.
01:04:47 Not yet.
01:04:49 Why are these people out here?
01:05:01 Men and women in rags, children eating scraps.
01:05:05 They're institutions.
01:05:07 Have you visited any of them,
01:05:09 these institutions you speak of?
01:05:11 No.
01:05:13 I'm taxed for them. Isn't that enough?
01:05:15 Is it?
01:05:17 Ben, come back to the fire.
01:05:23 Look at these hands, Meg.
01:05:25 They're hard hands.
01:05:27 They've done hard work.
01:05:29 I want to work.
01:05:31 I want to have bread for my children.
01:05:33 It's not right that there's no work.
01:05:35 We're together, Ben.
01:05:37 That's the important thing.
01:05:39 I love you, Meg. I love the children.
01:05:41 Tomorrow, take the children
01:05:43 and go to the parish poorhouse.
01:05:45 No. No.
01:05:47 I'd rather we all drowned in the river
01:05:49 than go to one of those places
01:05:51 and be separated forever.
01:05:53 Until I get work?
01:05:55 No. Ben, we're a family.
01:05:57 We stay together.
01:05:59 Come.
01:06:01 Come back to the fire. Come.
01:06:03 Come.
01:06:05 Will you show me this?
01:06:19 What has it to do with me?
01:06:21 Are they not of the human race?
01:06:23 Look here!
01:06:25 Beneath my robe!
01:06:31 Look upon these!
01:06:33 What are they?
01:06:41 They are your children.
01:06:43 They are the children of all
01:06:45 who walk the earth unseen.
01:06:47 Their names are
01:06:49 Ignorance and Want.
01:06:51 Beware of them.
01:06:53 For upon their brow
01:06:55 is written the word
01:06:57 Doom.
01:06:59 They spell
01:07:01 the downfall of you
01:07:03 and all who deny their existence.
01:07:05 Have you no refuge, no resource?
01:07:09 Are there no workhouses?
01:07:13 Are there no prisons?
01:07:15 Cover them.
01:07:25 They do not wish to see them.
01:07:27 I thought as much.
01:07:29 They are hidden.
01:07:33 But they live.
01:07:37 Oh, they live.
01:07:39 Ah!
01:07:43 Time has come for me to leave you,
01:07:47 Ebenezer Scrooge.
01:07:49 Leave me?
01:07:51 Leave me here?
01:07:53 Oh, yes.
01:07:55 Come out.
01:07:57 Take me back to my bed.
01:07:59 It's too late.
01:08:03 It's cold.
01:08:05 The place is strange, don't you think?
01:08:07 Spirit,
01:08:17 come back.
01:08:21 I wish to talk.
01:08:23 [wind howling]
01:08:25 Perhaps I...
01:08:31 I have made a mistake.
01:08:35 Here and there.
01:08:37 Talk too quickly about matters
01:08:39 to which I gave no great thought.
01:08:41 Very well, we'll have a give and take.
01:08:43 Come to some meeting of the minds.
01:08:45 I'm a reasonable man.
01:08:49 Spirit!
01:08:51 [wind howling]
01:08:53 Have pity on me.
01:08:55 Don't leave me.
01:08:59 What have I done
01:09:11 to be abandoned like this?
01:09:15 What?
01:09:19 What?
01:09:21 What?
01:09:27 [wind howling]
01:09:39 [wind howling]
01:09:41 Are you the spirit
01:10:01 which Jacob Marley foretold would visit me?
01:10:03 [wind howling]
01:10:05 And I am in the presence
01:10:11 of the ghost of Christmas yet to come,
01:10:13 am I not?
01:10:15 [wind howling]
01:10:17 You are about to show me the shadows
01:10:23 of the things that have not happened
01:10:25 but will happen
01:10:27 in the time before us.
01:10:29 Is that so?
01:10:31 [wind howling]
01:10:33 I fear you
01:10:39 more than any spectre I have seen.
01:10:43 I am prepared to bear your company.
01:10:49 Will you not speak to me?
01:10:51 Very well. Lead on.
01:10:55 The night is waning fast.
01:10:57 Time is precious to me.
01:10:59 [wind howling]
01:11:01 [thunder]
01:11:07 This place, I know it very well.
01:11:23 The Exchange, it's like a second home to me.
01:11:25 [wind howling]
01:11:27 Oh, I don't know much about it either way.
01:11:39 I only know he's dead.
01:11:41 When did he die?
01:11:43 Last night, I believe.
01:11:45 What happened to his money?
01:11:47 Left it to his company, perhaps.
01:11:49 Who else did he have?
01:11:51 It'll likely be a very small funeral,
01:11:53 for the retired and former party.
01:11:55 I'll go if lunch is provided,
01:11:57 but I insist on being fed for the time I waste.
01:11:59 [laughing]
01:12:01 Have these men no respect for the dead?
01:12:03 I should go, I suppose.
01:12:07 After all, we did considerable business together.
01:12:09 Well, I must go and find the price of corn.
01:12:11 Goodbye.
01:12:13 [crowd] Goodbye.
01:12:15 How was I privy to that conversation?
01:12:17 What purpose could it have for me?
01:12:21 [siren wailing]
01:12:23 [gunshot]
01:12:25 The rest of all heaven's what is this?
01:12:47 [music]
01:12:49 Spirit,
01:12:53 this is a fearful place.
01:12:57 I wish to leave it.
01:12:59 [gunshot]
01:13:01 [crowd screaming]
01:13:15 No, I will not.
01:13:17 This you cannot make me do.
01:13:19 I say I understand you.
01:13:21 That is sufficient to the moment.
01:13:23 Furthermore, there must be someone in this city
01:13:25 who feels some emotion because of this man's death.
01:13:27 I demand to see that person.
01:13:29 [gunshot]
01:13:31 [laughing]
01:13:33 This is the most foul part of time.
01:13:37 It must have been a mistake,
01:13:39 taking a wrong turn.
01:13:41 [crowd screaming]
01:13:43 [coughing]
01:13:45 In there?
01:14:09 I have no business to transact in there.
01:14:11 [crowd screaming]
01:14:13 [laughing]
01:14:15 Well, open it up, Mrs. Gilbert.
01:14:29 I might pay you for goods I haven't seen.
01:14:31 You'll not ask me how I came by these.
01:14:35 Every person
01:14:37 has a right to take care of himself.
01:14:39 That's my motto.
01:14:41 Well, he always did.
01:14:43 And who's the worst for the loss of a few things?
01:14:45 Not a dead man, I suppose.
01:14:47 No, indeed.
01:14:49 I mean, if he'd wanted to keep him
01:14:51 after he was dead,
01:14:53 the wicked old screw,
01:14:55 why wasn't he more natural in his lifetime?
01:14:57 Oh, dear.
01:14:59 If he had been,
01:15:01 he'd have had someone to look after him
01:15:03 when he was struck with death.
01:15:05 Instead of lying there
01:15:07 gasping out his last
01:15:09 alone.
01:15:11 Here.
01:15:13 By himself.
01:15:15 [bells jingling]
01:15:17 [laughing]
01:15:23 Those are my things.
01:15:27 She's stolen my things.
01:15:31 I'll have her before her magistrate.
01:15:33 What do you call these?
01:15:35 - Cajuns. - You don't mean to say you took them down.
01:15:37 Rings and all.
01:15:39 With him lying there.
01:15:41 Why not?
01:15:43 [laughing]
01:15:45 And don't get wax on his blankets.
01:15:51 His blankets?
01:15:53 I hope he didn't have anything catching.
01:15:55 I wasn't so fond of him
01:15:57 as I'd like her about if I did.
01:15:59 [laughing]
01:16:01 [laughing]
01:16:03 Well, what's your offer then?
01:16:11 Those are not my things.
01:16:23 Yes, they are similar,
01:16:25 but
01:16:27 the person she speaks of,
01:16:29 could not be me.
01:16:31 A similarity perhaps.
01:16:33 No.
01:16:35 One pound five and three.
01:16:37 Not a penny more
01:16:39 if I was to be boiled for it.
01:16:41 You're hardened, Joe.
01:16:43 No mistake.
01:16:45 I'm always kind
01:16:47 to the ladies.
01:16:49 That's the way I ruin myself.
01:16:51 [laughing]
01:16:53 Spirit,
01:16:55 what perversity is this?
01:16:57 I asked to see some emotion
01:16:59 in connection with this man's death,
01:17:01 and you show me only greed and avarice.
01:17:03 Let me see some tenderness,
01:17:05 some depth of feeling.
01:17:07 [gunshot]
01:17:09 [gunshot]
01:17:11 Must be some confusion.
01:17:31 Your fellow spirit brought me here earlier.
01:17:37 Very well.
01:17:39 You're devilish hard
01:17:41 to have a conversation with.
01:17:43 Suffer the little children
01:17:45 to come unto me,
01:17:47 and forbid them not,
01:17:49 for such is the kingdom of God.
01:17:51 Verily I say unto you,
01:17:53 whosoever shall not receive
01:17:55 the kingdom of God as a little child,
01:17:57 he shall not enter therein.
01:17:59 This color hurts my eyes.
01:18:03 [sighs]
01:18:05 It's better now.
01:18:07 This work makes my eyes red,
01:18:11 and I wouldn't show red eyes
01:18:13 to your father when he comes home.
01:18:15 Not for the world.
01:18:17 It must be nearly his time.
01:18:21 Past it, rather.
01:18:23 I think he walks slower than he used to
01:18:25 these last few evenings, Mother.
01:18:27 Yet I've seen him walk
01:18:29 quite a bit.
01:18:31 Yet I've seen him walk home with...
01:18:33 with Tiny Tim on his shoulders
01:18:39 very fast indeed.
01:18:41 And so have I.
01:18:43 And so have I.
01:18:45 And so have I.
01:18:47 He was very light to carry.
01:18:49 And your father loved him so that...
01:18:51 there was no trouble.
01:18:53 No trouble.
01:18:59 There is your father now.
01:19:01 Hello, Father.
01:19:03 Hello, my dear.
01:19:13 Hello, my dear ones.
01:19:17 Hello, Father.
01:19:19 You're late. We were worried about you.
01:19:23 I'm glad you're home, Father.
01:19:25 I am, too.
01:19:27 Oh, you've become
01:19:29 quite a little harmful.
01:19:31 The reason that I'm late
01:19:33 is because
01:19:35 I walked by there today.
01:19:37 Today?
01:19:39 I couldn't keep away.
01:19:43 It's so quiet and green.
01:19:45 You shall see it on Sunday.
01:19:49 We shall all go on Sunday.
01:19:51 I promised him that every Sunday
01:19:55 we'd walk.
01:19:57 My little child.
01:20:01 My little, little child.
01:20:05 Father,
01:20:07 please don't grieve so.
01:20:09 Oh, I'm sorry.
01:20:11 I have all of you.
01:20:13 A blessing to be thankful for.
01:20:15 Do you know
01:20:21 who I saw in the street today?
01:20:23 Mr. Scrooge's nephew,
01:20:25 Fred.
01:20:27 And he greeted me in his usual cheerful way.
01:20:29 And he saw that I was a little sad.
01:20:33 He asked me
01:20:35 what was distressing me.
01:20:37 And when I told him,
01:20:39 he said that he was
01:20:41 heartily sorry for me.
01:20:43 Brother,
01:20:47 Timmy's part of all of us.
01:20:51 For his sake
01:20:53 we must go on living.
01:20:55 So long as we love one another
01:20:57 he will always be alive.
01:20:59 Yes, of course, Maggie.
01:21:03 But however
01:21:05 and whenever
01:21:07 we are parted from one another,
01:21:09 I'm sure
01:21:11 that none of us will ever forget
01:21:13 poor tiny Tim.
01:21:15 Never, never, never.
01:21:17 And when we recollect
01:21:19 how great he was, and how mild,
01:21:21 although he was but a little, little child,
01:21:23 I'm sure that we will not
01:21:25 easily quarrel among ourselves.
01:21:27 I am
01:21:29 a happy man.
01:21:31 I am a truly happy man.
01:21:35 I asked for tenderness
01:21:41 and depth of feeling.
01:21:43 And you've shown me that.
01:21:47 There's nothing more I need see.
01:21:49 Take me home.
01:21:55 What is this?
01:22:03 I thought we had agreed
01:22:05 that you would transport me home.
01:22:07 Inspector.
01:22:16 Something informs me that
01:22:18 the moment of our parting
01:22:20 is at hand.
01:22:22 I know it, but I know not how.
01:22:24 Tell me.
01:22:26 What man was that
01:22:29 whom we saw lying dead?
01:22:31 No.
01:22:43 No, before I draw near to that stone,
01:22:45 answer me this.
01:22:47 Are the things you have shown me the shadows of the things
01:22:49 that will be?
01:22:51 Are they the shadows of the things
01:22:54 that may be only?
01:22:57 [Screams]
01:23:00 [Screams]
01:23:28 [Gunshot]
01:23:30 Men's courses will foreshadow certain ends.
01:23:33 I... I accept it.
01:23:35 But if those courses be departed from,
01:23:39 the ends must change.
01:23:41 Tell me that is so by what you show me.
01:23:46 [Gunshot]
01:23:48 [Gunshot]
01:23:56 [Gunshot]
01:23:58 Dear me, I am not the man I was.
01:24:02 I will not be the man I must have been,
01:24:06 but for this visitation, why show me this
01:24:08 if I am past all hope?
01:24:10 Good spirit,
01:24:14 your nature intercedes for me and pities me.
01:24:16 Say that I may change these things
01:24:20 by an altered life.
01:24:24 I will honor Christmas in my heart
01:24:26 and try to keep it all the year.
01:24:28 I will live in the past, present, and the future.
01:24:30 The spirits of all three shall strive within me.
01:24:32 I will not shut out the lessons
01:24:34 that they teach.
01:24:36 Tell me.
01:24:38 Tell me that I may
01:24:42 sponge away the writing on this stone.
01:24:44 Spare me.
01:24:48 Spare me.
01:24:51 Spare me.
01:24:53 Spare me.
01:24:57 My own room.
01:25:09 I'm alive.
01:25:13 Oh, thank you, spirit.
01:25:19 I will keep my promise.
01:25:21 I will live in the past, present, and the future.
01:25:23 The spirits of all three
01:25:25 will strive within me.
01:25:27 Oh, heaven and Christmas time
01:25:29 be praised for this.
01:25:31 I say this on my knees, Jacob Marley.
01:25:35 On my knees.
01:25:37 [Bell tolls]
01:25:43 [Bell tolls]
01:25:45 Nine o'clock.
01:26:11 Daylight.
01:26:13 What day?
01:26:17 [Bell tolls]
01:26:21 Hello, you there, boy!
01:26:23 Me, sir?
01:26:25 Yes, you, my good fellow.
01:26:27 What day is today?
01:26:29 Today? Well, it's Christmas Day, of course.
01:26:31 Christmas Day. I haven't missed it.
01:26:33 The spirits did it all in one night.
01:26:35 Well, they can do anything they like.
01:26:37 Of course they can.
01:26:39 Hello, me fine fellow. Hello!
01:26:41 Do you know the poulterers in the next street but one?
01:26:43 On the corner?
01:26:45 I should hope I did.
01:26:47 Intelligent boy. Remarkable boy.
01:26:49 Do you know if they've sold the prized turkey
01:26:51 that was hanging there?
01:26:53 What? The one as big as me?
01:26:55 Delightful boy.
01:26:57 Pleasure talking to you.
01:26:59 The one as big as you. It's hanging there now.
01:27:01 Well, go and buy it.
01:27:03 Yes, go and buy it and bring them round
01:27:05 so that I may tell them where to deliver it.
01:27:07 Come back with the man and I'll give you a shilling.
01:27:09 Come back in less than five minutes
01:27:11 and I'll give you half a crown.
01:27:13 (laughing)
01:27:15 I must stress myself. So much to do.
01:27:21 I don't want to lose any time.
01:27:23 I was light as a feather.
01:27:25 (laughing)
01:27:27 I was happy as an angel.
01:27:29 I was merry as a schoolboy.
01:27:35 (laughing)
01:27:37 I'm as giddy as a drunken man.
01:27:39 Merry Christmas to everybody
01:27:43 and a happy new year to the world!
01:27:45 If this be a prank, boy, I'll box your ears.
01:27:57 He was in that window. I swear it.
01:27:59 Oh, there you are.
01:28:03 The boy here says you wish to purchase this turkey here.
01:28:05 He's quite right.
01:28:07 Here's your half crown for a service well rendered.
01:28:09 Thank you, sir.
01:28:11 Splendid boy. Now, here is an address
01:28:13 and the price of the turkey.
01:28:15 You take this fine bird to Bob Cratchit
01:28:17 in Camden.
01:28:19 The directions are all written down.
01:28:21 Leave immediately this very moment. Yes, sir.
01:28:23 You say only that it comes from a friend.
01:28:25 It must be there in time
01:28:27 for Christmas dinner.
01:28:29 It will be, sir.
01:28:31 Good fellow. Here's a little something for your trouble.
01:28:33 Oh, thank you, sir.
01:28:35 Not to offer you.
01:28:37 Merry Christmas.
01:28:39 Wonderful day.
01:28:43 So grant us all a change of heart
01:28:51 Good morning. Merry Christmas to you.
01:28:53 Merry Christmas.
01:28:55 Like angels. Yes, exactly.
01:28:57 You sing excellently well here.
01:28:59 Thank you, sir.
01:29:01 'Tis I who thank you
01:29:03 for that glorious music on this glorious Christmas day.
01:29:05 Good morning, gentlemen.
01:29:15 Oh, gentlemen.
01:29:17 Good morning, gentlemen. Merry Christmas to you.
01:29:19 Mr. Scrooge.
01:29:21 That is my name. I fear it is not pleasant to you.
01:29:23 Allow me to beg your pardons
01:29:25 and please accept my pledge
01:29:27 to the poor and needy for...
01:29:29 Lord bless me.
01:29:33 My dear Mr. Scrooge.
01:29:37 Are you quite serious?
01:29:39 If you please.
01:29:41 And not a farthing less.
01:29:43 There are a great many back payments included in that.
01:29:45 I assure you. What can I say to such generosity?
01:29:47 Don't say anything.
01:29:49 My dear sir.
01:29:51 Will you come and see me? We will.
01:29:53 Oh, we will indeed. I am very much obliged.
01:29:55 Thank you. Fifty times.
01:29:57 Thank you.
01:29:59 Finally.
01:30:01 It's been quite a...
01:30:03 Bob Cratchit? Yes.
01:30:09 This is for you. There must be some mistake.
01:30:11 You are Bob Cratchit?
01:30:13 Yes. Well, there ain't no mistake.
01:30:15 I didn't order this.
01:30:17 This here prized turkey was bought
01:30:19 and paid for by a gentleman
01:30:21 to be delivered to Bob Cratchit and family
01:30:23 in time for Christmas dinner.
01:30:25 One gentleman? What's his name? Anonymous.
01:30:27 He wishes to remain anonymous.
01:30:29 Anonymous, you said?
01:30:31 That's what he said.
01:30:33 An anonymous gentleman.
01:30:35 Well, who could have sent it? I've no idea.
01:30:37 Perhaps it's a mistake. That's what I thought.
01:30:39 It's got our name and address on it, though.
01:30:41 What shall we do, then? I say we cook it
01:30:43 and eat it and have the best
01:30:45 Christmas feast we've ever had in our lives.
01:30:47 And I say,
01:30:49 Mrs. Cratchit,
01:30:51 what a splendid idea!
01:30:53 And God bless us all,
01:30:55 everyone.
01:30:57 And God bless us all,
01:30:59 everyone.
01:31:01 Merry Christmas, sir.
01:31:07 Merry Christmas.
01:31:11 Oh, Fred.
01:31:17 Oh, it's much too expensive.
01:31:19 I like it. Oh, I love it.
01:31:21 Oh, it's the most
01:31:25 beautiful thing I've ever seen.
01:31:27 Well, then, it belongs upon your wrist,
01:31:29 my darling. Merry Christmas.
01:31:31 Oh, Fred, I do love you.
01:31:33 Oh, and not just for this.
01:31:35 I know. I know.
01:31:37 [knocking]
01:31:41 Who can that be? Well, no one's expected this early.
01:31:47 My God!
01:31:49 It's Uncle Ebenezer.
01:31:51 Your uncle?
01:31:53 What in the world? What do you want?
01:31:55 Open the door, Mary.
01:31:57 I'm sure I don't know.
01:31:59 Fred.
01:32:05 Uncle Ebenezer.
01:32:07 May I come in?
01:32:09 Yes, come in.
01:32:11 Please.
01:32:13 Thank you.
01:32:15 Do come in.
01:32:17 Good afternoon, Mary.
01:32:21 Merry Christmas to you.
01:32:23 Merry Christmas to you.
01:32:25 Uncle Ebenezer.
01:32:27 This is my wife, Janet.
01:32:29 Janet, this is Uncle Ebenezer.
01:32:31 It's a pleasure.
01:32:33 More like a surprise,
01:32:35 wouldn't you say?
01:32:37 Well, that, too.
01:32:39 Well, that's quite true.
01:32:41 Quite honestly, it is a surprise.
01:32:43 When we spoke yesterday, you made it quite clear,
01:32:45 it seemed to me, at least, that you had no intention
01:32:47 of accepting my annual invitation.
01:32:49 I made other things clear, too,
01:32:51 didn't I, Fred?
01:32:53 That Christmas was a humbug, a waste of time
01:32:55 and money,
01:32:57 a false and commercial festival,
01:32:59 devoutly to be ignored.
01:33:01 Yes, basically that was it.
01:33:03 Well, I've come for three reasons.
01:33:05 First,
01:33:07 to beg your pardon
01:33:09 for the things I said about Christmas.
01:33:11 That was a humbug, Fred.
01:33:13 Was it?
01:33:15 Mm.
01:33:17 I didn't know it then, but I know it now.
01:33:19 Secondly,
01:33:21 I've come to meet your wife.
01:33:23 Well, here she is.
01:33:25 Yes, and a very
01:33:27 beautiful woman she is, too.
01:33:29 Thank you.
01:33:31 I, uh...
01:33:35 I was in love once.
01:33:37 Would you believe that?
01:33:39 Yes.
01:33:41 That I possess neither the courage nor the optimism,
01:33:43 perhaps
01:33:45 the depth of feeling that you two have.
01:33:47 Thirdly,
01:33:49 if the invitation to dine with you today
01:33:51 is still in force,
01:33:53 I accept.
01:33:55 Of course it's still in force.
01:33:57 Hurrah!
01:33:59 I was sure that one day...
01:34:01 You were sure, were you?
01:34:03 Well, apparently you were right.
01:34:05 Yes, I should like to dine with you and your friends.
01:34:07 You'll be more than welcome.
01:34:09 You like games, don't you?
01:34:13 Yes.
01:34:15 Yes, as a matter of fact, I do.
01:34:17 Do you ever play, uh, similes?
01:34:19 It's one of our favorites.
01:34:21 Perhaps we could play today.
01:34:23 Quite possibly.
01:34:25 I'm very good at it.
01:34:27 And should the phrase "tide has been thrown out,"
01:34:29 the answer is
01:34:31 a drum.
01:34:33 Why, yes, so it is.
01:34:35 But...
01:34:37 Ah.
01:34:39 You'll forgive me for saying this,
01:34:41 but I see the shadow of my sister in your face.
01:34:43 I loved your mother, Fred.
01:34:47 For a time there,
01:34:49 I forgot just how much I loved her.
01:34:51 Perhaps I chose to forget.
01:34:55 Well, now.
01:34:57 It isn't too much trouble.
01:34:59 I should like to sample some of that punch
01:35:01 Fortu's are famous for.
01:35:03 Of course.
01:35:05 You've made us both very happy, Uncle Ebenezer.
01:35:07 Have I?
01:35:09 Yes.
01:35:11 God forgive me for the time I've wasted.
01:35:13 (chuckling)
01:35:15 Nine o'clock.
01:35:39 Late again, eh, Gretchen?
01:35:41 (chuckling)
01:35:43 You'll see about this.
01:35:45 (clicking)
01:35:47 (clicking)
01:35:49 (clicking)
01:35:51 (clicking)
01:36:19 Mr. Cratchit!
01:36:21 Here, sir.
01:36:27 Do you know what time it is?
01:36:35 Yes, sir.
01:36:37 What time is it?
01:36:39 Eighteen minutes past the hour, sir.
01:36:43 Eighteen and a half minutes past the hour.
01:36:45 What do you mean?
01:36:47 Eighteen minutes past the hour.
01:36:49 What do you mean, coming here at this time of day?
01:36:51 I'm sorry, sir.
01:36:53 I am behind my time.
01:36:55 Yes, I think you are.
01:36:57 Step this way, sir, if you will, please.
01:36:59 It's only once a year, sir.
01:37:01 It shall not be repeated.
01:37:03 I was making rather merry yesterday.
01:37:05 Hmm.
01:37:07 Well, I'll tell you, my friend.
01:37:09 I'm not going to stand for this any longer.
01:37:11 Therefore...
01:37:15 Therefore...
01:37:17 I am going to...
01:37:19 double your salary!
01:37:21 Double my salary, sir?
01:37:27 Yes, Bob!
01:37:29 (laughing)
01:37:31 Yes, Bob!
01:37:33 (laughing)
01:37:35 Merry Christmas to you!
01:37:37 (laughing)
01:37:39 I'll double your salary for a start.
01:37:41 And I'll endeavor to assist your family in any way I can.
01:37:43 And Tim...
01:37:45 Tim will walk again
01:37:47 and grow stronger and stronger upon my life, he will.
01:37:49 We'll discuss the particulars this afternoon
01:37:51 over a Christmas bowl.
01:37:53 Hmm.
01:37:55 Well, what's the matter with you?
01:37:57 Nothing, sir.
01:38:01 It's just that...
01:38:03 Nothing.
01:38:07 Thank you, sir.
01:38:11 Well, my good fellow.
01:38:13 Make up the fire before we freeze to death.
01:38:15 Hmm?
01:38:17 Buy some more coal
01:38:19 before you dart another eye, Bob Cratchit!
01:38:21 Yes, sir.
01:38:25 Ebenezer Scrooge was better than his word.
01:38:35 He became as good a friend,
01:38:37 as good a master,
01:38:39 as good a man as the Old City knew.
01:38:41 And to Tiny Tim, who did not die,
01:38:45 he was a second father.
01:38:47 It was said of Ebenezer Scrooge
01:38:49 that he knew how to keep Christmas well
01:38:51 if any man alive possessed the knowledge.
01:38:53 May that be truly said of us
01:38:57 and all of us.
01:38:59 And so, as Tiny Tim observed,
01:39:01 God bless us, everyone.
01:39:07 ♪ 'Twas the man was cold as ice,
01:39:09 ♪ He could not enter his place.
01:39:11 ♪ He stole the silver in his heart
01:39:15 ♪ And wore it all his days.
01:39:17 ♪ His wisdom in his hand
01:39:21 ♪ Shocked the sorrow on his face.
01:39:23 ♪ He went to church but once a year
01:39:27 ♪ And there his Christmas came.
01:39:29 ♪ The wretched man is full of fear
01:39:33 ♪ He rushes here and there.
01:39:35 ♪ He turns away the old man
01:39:37 ♪ Shuffling in the chair.
01:39:39 ♪ He takes the lamb and leaves it
01:39:43 ♪ For next the Christmas day.
01:39:45 ♪ And stands at the great oldest point
01:39:49 ♪ In church at Christmas day.
01:39:51 ♪ So grant us all a change of heart
01:39:55 ♪ Rejoice, my very son.
01:39:57 ♪ With peace our hearts are open
01:40:01 ♪ And God bless us, everyone.
01:40:03 ♪ God bless us, everyone.
01:40:05 ♪ A man's true love he do not know
01:40:15 ♪ In here in peace on earth.
01:40:17 ♪ And give the glory of the Lord
01:40:21 ♪ The message of the birth.
01:40:23 ♪ And gather all the children
01:40:27 ♪ Into Venice where he spake.
01:40:31 ♪ And the children of the world
01:40:33 ♪ Come out of the gathering
01:40:35 ♪ For to Christmas day.
01:40:37 ♪ So grant us all a change of heart
01:40:41 ♪ Rejoice, my very son.
01:40:43 ♪ With peace our hearts are open
01:40:47 ♪ And God bless us, everyone.
01:40:49 ♪ With peace our hearts are open
01:40:53 ♪ And God bless us, everyone.
01:40:55 ♪
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