Scrooge the Musical (1970) Part 9

[veganisextremelygood]

SCROOGE NEVER REALIZED THEY WERE CELEBRATING HIS DEATH!

[Borusa1976]

In some TV editions the entire hell bit is trimed out - probably due to the timing reasons.

[Antichrist2000]

Never liked this scene. Always felt it was a little too extreme, and the dialogue made it all seem cartoonish. And also they took forlorn Marley and made him come off as an apathetic villain.

Of course this was all part of the plan to get Scrooge to straighten up but still it just seems to over the top.

[Antichrist2000]

Huh...my dad was right, there is a face in the wall...And to think my mom and I ambushed him when I was a kid and said we didn't see anything and nothing was there...sorry dad lol

[veganisextremelygood]

AFTER MUAMMAR DIED, I HAD FOUND A CARICATURE OF HIM IN HELL FACING THE DEVIL!

[XSC3]

man this freaked me out seeing it late at night as a kid on tv! Today I still prefer the George C. Scott version, but I'm glad this is still out there.

[veganisextremelygood]

THIS PART REMINDS ME OF THE DEATH OF MUAMMAR!

[futuristfood2]

my favorite christmas movie of all time,.

[wisnurse]

This is my favorite adaptation, as well, and despite my great respect for actors such as George C. Scott and Patrick Stewart, Albert Finney simply blows them out of the water.

[wawawis]

@wisnurse Don't forget Alistair Sim.

[shade231]

I think this was the most unique of the Christmas carols. All the others just warned and hinted. This one revealed the reapers face, and threw scrooges ass straight to hell.

lol i'd be a changed man to.

[TheDrYes]

this movie terrified me as a kid the only one that creeped me out more was the disney one (in pop scene terms)

[yh3e]

Man!! talk about a bad trip!!!

[cstoczyn]

GO JACOB!!!!

[cstoczyn]

RIP Ebenezer Scrooge????

[cstoczyn]

RIP Tiny Tim????

[cstoczyn]

FTW

[cstoczyn]

Poor Ebenezer

[SCE2AUX]

In the US during the 1980's, it would cut away at 6:28 back to Scrooge's bedchamber. Frankly, I think that worked better - the scene in Hades is just silly.

[cstoczyn]

@SCE2AUX LOL

[natalia24escobar]

My friend is doing this play so she sings this EVERYDAY thank you very much

[The1910Phantom]

Jesus Christ! I nearly had a nightmare last night because of that face of Death the third spirit revealed!

[cstoczyn]

@The1910Phantom GASP!!!!

[pluto4847]

@cstoczyn

The ghost of Xmas future used to give me nightmares as a kid. I would have nightmares falling into a grave into a rocky tunnel to hell. It was scary. I slept with the light on.

[cstoczyn]

@pluto4847 Not Me

[mlaura40s]

6:00 BOO!

[cstoczyn]

@mlaura40s OMG!

[MsAppleofhiseye]

Wow! This part is deep!

[bigwillietheb]

I remember the first time I saw this I was 8 years old, Christmas of 1982 & when the Ghost of Christmas future turned to a skeleton, man that scared the Hell out of me.

[cstoczyn]

@bigwillietheb Me 2

[athull08]

"Since I left my cannon at home...." lol at the idea of having a cannon you can just carry around with you

[kingdomheartsepic]

that death face scares me

[beatlesfan46569]

@kingdomheartsepic Me too even today. I know it's only a mask but that skull really gets to me.

[blondybash321]

I am dead aren't I? As a coffin nail. Cracks me up ha.

[Loverboy19691]

the scene at the graveside always makes me cry,..and i'm a 42 year old man!!

[pleasantdaydreamer]

awesome effects. :] (I always had the impression that Marley wasn't in hell, per se, but was in purgatory, working off his sins through works of mercy, like visiting Scrooge).

[pleasantdaydreamer]

awesome effects. :]

[SuperHorrormovies]

Wecome to HELL!!!!!! Scrooge

[Beerlejuice]

The part where you see the Grim Reaper used to scare the shit out of me when I was a kid!!!!

[fivebearrugs]

I never knew about the part about Scrooge working for Lucifer; that part is always edited in TV airings...at least in the US.

[Breeslave]

it's not christmas but july fourth and I think republicans need to watch this and repent and start caring about others and not an evil selfish agenda and compromise for the good of all of us.

[itsallthesametothem]

@Breeslave Oh shut the fuck up - it's a movie.

[mowriter]

Bob Cratchet talking to Tiny Tim just tears me up inside, as an adult and more to the point as a Father. It didn't have that effect on me watching this as a kid. I find myself saying "don't F up" to myself, regarding an income and being a provider for my kids. No grand, social declarations about the poor or the rich; only that *I*, personally, better do whatever I have to do to provide for my family and be able to prevent the preventable with that income.

[ptorrington]

I love this movie but here's something else too...if you can't pay the money back...ummm...how about you not borrow it in the first place!?!

[Pwells1]

@ptorrington I think the idea is that Scrooge is charging people ridiculous ammounts of interest, so they can never get their principle paid off. Right?

Also...yeah, it always kind of bothered me that Scrooge is viewed as evil for collecting on loans. I mean, if he wipes everyone's debts, won't he himself eventually go bankrupt?

[daytraderfbf]

@Pwells1 most of what he was owed was usuarious interest.

[Sorce473]

@Pwells1I think it was more that he valued money over people. He would charge exorbitant rates, and wouldn't take pity on people, for example, not giving them a few extra days to repay even if it meant they would be kicked out onto the street or sent to the workhouses. If you ever get the chance, read the original (not abridged) book, it has some wonderful explainations in the afterword.

[Pwells1]

@Sorce473 I read the book when I was 10. Read it again in College. Don't recall the afterword exactly.

[ptorrington]

Stop raising your flippin hands and let the people speak!!!

[Shanniquitie]

i remember being so much more terrified of the face of death when i was little!

[anime1973]

the hell scene confuses me. Marley came to scrooge to show him mercy and show him that he can change. Now for no reason Marley takes pleasure in Scrooge's pains and torments. Furthermore why are devils forging his chain? Scrooge forged it in life and was already wrapped around him but would be invisible until his death.

[TheLogicalGod]

@anime1973 I always view the Scrooge story the same way I do "Its a Wonderful Life" : Scrooge and George Bailey are simply having a protracted psychotic episode. Inside the confines of that episode all sorts of incongruous things can happen. As long as they end up bringing the protagonist around to redemption, what does it matter? Its all part of the nightmare. That being said...its just a movie! XD

[Shanniquitie]

@TheLogicalGod lol you silly thing. scrooge transforms because life's foundation is poetry - not logic ;)

[Shanniquitie]

@anime1973 well, marley never repented

[BobCratchit1843]

@anime1973 Maybe it was just to show him how big in fact his chain really was?

[cstoczyn]

@BobCratchit1843 IDK

[mowriter]

@anime1973 : because the Marley in the future is helping Scrooge learn about his future home, hell. A reality that didn't come to pass when Scrooge repented. Also, the devils had trouble keeping up with Scrooge's evil, being the "literal" forgers of the chains Scrooge "ordered" in life.

[mooshooduck]

3:15 is the scariest part of the movie, when he is singing and dancing and looks up and sees the grim reaper staring right at him

[longshotbrtn]

the 'Tiny Tim' actor with the page boy wig, grew up to be Scott Hamilton - TranGender Figure skater!

[bozzer1992]

6:01-AUGH!!!!!!! THE FACE OF DEATH!!!!!!!!!

[rai789]

very scary for a kid

[14DaveHunter]

It was this movie that made the urban legend, of Dicken's making the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come, "The Grim Reaper". For such a scary scene, it has a real Biblical view of repentance. Only "The Stingiest Man In Town", has a reference to the Devil.

[japanfan64]

LOL, he's singing that he's grateful for his own death. And I thought the skull was the scariest thing as a kid.

[ThePoison27]

@japanfan64 lol yeah indeed the face of Death is the most scariest thing to see as a kid

[cstoczyn]

@ThePoison27 Me 2

[pyrogyra72]

It's true! Hell has frozen over.

[friarted]

06:00 onward in this segment- brought to you by Hammer Studios!

[friarted]

@friarted With special irony added by C.S. Lewis!

[moose384]

I LOVE THIS SONG HAHAHA

[ScarlettOBeara]

@moose384 I do too! my brothers and sister and I do the dance! It's a crack up......The grandkids think were mad!

[639842]

the tiny tim part always made me cry as a kid.

[Riphly]

Wasn't that background noise meant to be the sound of the devil's forgery making the great chain?

[athull08]

In hell, what's that background sound, like a heartbeat? It's pretty eerie whatever it is.

[OneTrueLionessQueen]

at least tiny tim got that beauitful day he finnaly wanted where he went :,)

[GoMidoriIsCool]

i cried @ tiny tim's grave scene :,(

[Kainilover]

I like the song, "Thank you very much" And I am glad you posted this movie.

[childofthemarshalsea]

@Kainilover It was even nominated for an Oscar but didn't win.