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A Christmas Carol (1984) (TV) More at IMDbPro »

• Director Clive Donner was the film editor on Scrooge (1951).
  
  
• Edward Woodward replaced Leo McKern.
  
  
• Pat Keen, Rebecca Saire, Basil Henson and Richard Huw were interviewed for parts.
  
  
• This is, perhaps, the only version of ACC in which Scrooge wears dress-slacks, a dress-shirt and a vest (with an Alistair Cooke-type smoking jacket)...instead of merely his nightgown, slippers and cap. (Rumor has it that George C. Scott openly reeled at the very thought of portraying Scrooge under such conditions...especially in mid-winter England.)
  
  
• Last film for Derek Francis.
  
  
• Liz Smith played Mrs. Dilber in both the 1984 version of ‘A Christmas Carol’ starring George C. Scott and the 1999 version starring Patrick Stewart.
  
  
• Scrooge's grave can still be visited at St Chad's Church graveyard, Shrewsbury, where the churchyard sequence was shot - the production team left the gravestone in place once filming was completed.
  
  
• The word "humbug" is misunderstood by many people, which is a pity since the word provides a key insight into Scrooge's hatred of Christmas. The word "humbug" describes deceitful efforts to fool people by pretending to a fake loftiness or false sincerity. So when Scrooge calls Christmas a humbug, he is claiming that people only pretend to charity and kindness in an scoundrel effort to delude him, each other, and themselves. In Scrooge's eyes, he is the one man honest enough to admit that no one really cares about anyone else, so for him, every wish for a Merry Christmas is one more deceitful effort to fool him and take advantage of him. This is a man who has turned to profit because he honestly believes everyone else will someday betray him or abandon him the moment he trusts them.
  
  

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