Scrooge (1970) Full Movie Best Movie | ENGLISH MOVIE
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00:00:00Sing a song of gladness and cheer, Sing a song of gladness and cheer,
00:00:24For the time of Christmas is here, Look around about you and see,
00:00:33What a world of wonder this world can be.
00:00:39Sing a Christmas carol, Sing a Christmas carol,
00:00:46And the children too, And enjoy the beauty,
00:00:52All the joy and beauty, That a merry Christmas can bring to you.
00:01:16Sing a Christmas carol, Sing a Christmas carol,
00:01:37Sing a Christmas carol, Sing a Christmas carol,
00:01:49Sing a song of gladness and cheer, For the time of Christmas is here,
00:01:59Look around about you and see, What a world of wonder this world can be.
00:02:10Sing a Christmas carol, Sing a Christmas carol,
00:02:20Sing a Christmas carol, Sing a Christmas carol,
00:02:41Hark the herald angels sing, Glory to the new-born King,
00:02:50Peace on earth and the sea mild, God and sinners reconciled,
00:02:58Joyful and triumphant.
00:03:11Hark the herald angels sing, Glory to the new-born King,
00:03:21Peace on earth and the sea mild, God and sinners reconciled,
00:03:30Joyful all ye nations rise, Joy to triumph of the skies,
00:03:39We can take our crowns now, Christ is born in Bethlehem.
00:03:46Infernal, horrible caterwali.
00:03:48Hark the herald angels sing, Glory to the new-born King,
00:03:55Why can't they leave a man in peace?
00:03:59Get on with your work, Cratchit.
00:04:00Hark the herald angels sing, Glory to the new-born King,
00:04:04Get away from me, you scavengers!
00:04:07Blimey!
00:04:08Who's he?
00:04:09That's Father Christmas!
00:04:10The plague on Father Christmas!
00:04:13And he sends his best to you too, Governor!
00:04:16Get out of here!
00:04:17Hark the herald angels sing, Glory to the new-born King,
00:04:20God and sinners reconciled,
00:04:22Hamburg.
00:04:23And to the young ruffians coming here with their Christmas nonsense!
00:04:30Beware, Cratchit.
00:04:33You have a dangerous sense of humour.
00:04:37Fire and damnation.
00:04:39Don't they know that I'm trying to run a business here?
00:04:42Uncle Ebenezer, I cannot tell you what a joy it is to see your happy, smiling face.
00:04:47Oh, it's you.
00:04:49Merry Christmas, Uncle Ebenezer.
00:04:51Merry Christmas, Uncle Ebenezer.
00:04:52God save you.
00:04:53God save me from Christmas.
00:04:54It's a lot of humbug.
00:04:56Christmas a humbug?
00:04:57Come now, I'm sure you don't mean that.
00:05:00Well, I'm sure that I do mean that.
00:05:02Merry Christmas, indeed.
00:05:05What reason have you got to be merry?
00:05:06You're poor enough.
00:05:07What reason have you got to be miserable?
00:05:09You're rich enough.
00:05:09There is no such thing as rich enough, only poor enough.
00:05:13Don't be so dismal, Uncle Ebenezer.
00:05:15What else can I be when I live in a world full of fools
00:05:19travelling Merry Christmas at one another?
00:05:22What's Christmas but a time for finding yourself a year older and another day richer?
00:05:27There's nothing merry in that.
00:05:30If I could work my will, nephew, every idiot who goes about with Merry Christmas on his lips
00:05:35should be boiled with his own pudding and buried with a stake of holly through his heart.
00:05:40God forbid, Uncle.
00:05:42You keep Christmas in your way and let me keep it in mine.
00:05:45But you don't keep it.
00:05:47And let me get off me ledger.
00:05:49You'll ruin me binding.
00:05:51And let me leave it alone, sir.
00:05:54It can be good enough to leave me alone during business hours.
00:05:59Seven o'clock on Christmas Eve, that's not business hours.
00:06:02That's drudgery for the sake of it and an insult to all men of good will.
00:06:05Hear, hear.
00:06:06Thank you, Bob Crutchit.
00:06:07Another word from you, Crutchit, and you will celebrate Christmas by losing your position.
00:06:23Yes, sir.
00:06:25Sorry, Mr. Scrooge.
00:06:28You're quite a powerful speaker, sir.
00:06:30I wonder you don't go into politics, you fool enough.
00:06:34Calm down.
00:06:35Don't be angry.
00:06:37Dine with me wife and me tomorrow.
00:06:39So you hadn't got enough problems, you went and got yourself married.
00:06:43Now, why in God's name did you ever do that?
00:06:46Because I fell in love with the lady.
00:06:47It is one thing in the world more nauseating than a merry Christmas.
00:06:52It's the hypocrisy of a happy marriage with some idiot lovesick female.
00:06:57Good afternoon, sir.
00:06:59My offer stands.
00:07:01You are always welcome, Uncle.
00:07:02Just like Christmas itself.
00:07:04I said good afternoon.
00:07:06Merry Christmas, Uncle.
00:07:07You too, Bob Crutchit, and your family.
00:07:09Thank you, sir.
00:07:10And to your good lady.
00:07:13And Uncle.
00:07:14Happy New Year.
00:07:15Good afternoon.
00:07:36Excuse me, sir, but it's seven o'clock, sir.
00:07:53Correct, Crutchit.
00:07:56Well, I don't wish to be impertinent, Mr. Scrooge,
00:07:59but would it be too much trouble for me to have my wages, sir?
00:08:04The trouble with you, Crutchit, is that all you think of is pleasure.
00:08:12Pleasure and squandering money.
00:08:21You'll be wanting the whole day off tomorrow, I suppose.
00:08:27If it's convenient, sir.
00:08:29No, sir, it is not convenient.
00:08:34And it is not fair.
00:08:36Yet, if I stopped your wages for it, you'd think yourself ill-used, no doubt.
00:08:43And yet, you don't think me ill-used when I pay a day's wages for no work.
00:08:48Why, it is Christmas Day, Mr. Scrooge, and it is only once a year, sir.
00:08:53A poor excuse for picking a man's pocket every 25th of December.
00:08:58I don't pay good money for you to be forever on holiday.
00:09:02I appreciate your kindness, Mr. Scrooge.
00:09:06That's my weakness. I'm a martyr to my own generosity.
00:09:11Give you one Christmas Day off and you expect them all.
00:09:16Very well, take the day.
00:09:19Thank you, sir.
00:09:20But be here all the earlier the next morning.
00:09:23Yes, sir, I will, sir. Thank you very much.
00:09:26Oh, and Merry Christmas, Mr. Scrooge.
00:09:29Be gone from here and take your infernal Merry Christmas with you.
00:09:35I beg your pardon, sir. No offence, sir.
00:09:46There's another one.
00:09:49Fifteen shillings a week, a wife and five children.
00:09:54Still talks of a Merry Christmas.
00:09:59Merry Christmas, Mr. Scrooge.
00:10:29Lovely fresh bread. I'm married.
00:10:31Freeze!
00:10:33Lovely fresh bread.
00:10:35Lovely fresh bread.
00:10:39Boo! Kathy, my dear.
00:10:41Tim!
00:10:43Oh, you're both frozen.
00:10:45Sorry I'm late.
00:10:47But Mr. Scrooge and I had a lot of last-minute business to attend to.
00:10:51Well, my loves, which one do you like best, eh?
00:10:55I like that dolly in the corner.
00:10:57I like all of them.
00:10:59Good boy. And why not one in particular?
00:11:01Well, he said I can't have none of them, so I might as well like them all.
00:11:05Tim, you are a philosopher and a gentleman.
00:11:09And I've got fifteen shillings in my pocket.
00:11:13Fifteen shillings?
00:11:15Fifteen shillings.
00:11:17Which says that the Cratchit family are going to have as good a Christmas as the Lord Mayor of London himself.
00:11:23Oh, I do like that dolly in the corner.
00:11:25Christmas children peep into Christmas windows.
00:11:29See a world as pretty as a dream.
00:11:35Christmas trees and toys.
00:11:37Christmas hopes and joys.
00:11:39Christmas puddings rich with Christmas cream.
00:11:47Christmas presents shine in the Christmas windows.
00:11:51Christmas boxes tied with pretty bows.
00:11:57Wonder what's inside.
00:11:59What delights they hide.
00:12:01But till Christmas morning no one knows.
00:12:05You'll be five children, Bob. Five for a shilling.
00:12:07Thank you, John.
00:12:09Won't it be exciting if it snows?
00:12:15Can you love Boy Rosita?
00:12:23I suppose that children everywhere will say a Christmas prayer.
00:12:31Till Santa brings their Christmas things.
00:12:35There, my loves. I've bought you the finest bird in the shop.
00:12:39Well, for one and ten per cent, I think.
00:12:41Christmas children live in a Christmas daydream.
00:12:47Waiting for the magic to unfold.
00:12:51Wondrous things to eat.
00:12:55Every Christmas treat.
00:12:57Rich or not, the Christmas pot of gold.
00:13:01Hypnotises children young and old.
00:13:11Sweet China oranges! Sweet China oranges!
00:13:19Quite right, Mr Cratchit. With your lot, feed apples at six a penny are the best bet.
00:13:23I'd rather have the dolly in a corner.
00:13:25I'd rather have the oranges.
00:13:27And 1846 is the best vintage in 20 years.
00:13:31At that price it should be.
00:13:33Well, James.
00:13:35Thank you, Mr Bessett. And a happy Christmas to you.
00:13:37And a happy Christmas to you, sir.
00:13:39This will make the finest quality punch, Mr C, and only tuppence a pint.
00:13:43Christmas punch? It's a Cratchit speciality.
00:13:47Oh, yes.
00:13:49One, two, three, silence!
00:13:52One, two, three, silence!
00:13:54One, two, three, silence!
00:13:57Poor Bess. What a Christmas pudding.
00:14:00Scandalous.
00:14:06It's Papa!
00:14:09Here we are, my loves. Look what we've bought for you.
00:14:12And about time too, Bob Cratchit.
00:14:14We were beginning to think you'd all gone away for Christmas.
00:14:17Christmas children hunger for Christmas morning.
00:14:22Christmas day's a wonder to behold.
00:14:27Young one's dreams come true, not so young one's too.
00:14:36I believe that story we've been told.
00:14:40You're not the only ones who've been busy.
00:14:42Come and see what we've been up to.
00:14:46Christmas is for children young and old.
00:15:06Good evening, sir.
00:15:21Have we the pleasure of addressing Mr Scrooge or Mr Marley?
00:15:27It's no pleasure to me, sir, to be addressed by either of you.
00:15:31Mr Marley has been dead these seven years.
00:15:34Seven years ago this very night he died.
00:15:37We've no doubt his liberality is well represented by his surviving partner.
00:15:42Mr Scrooge, sir, at this festive season of the year, sir,
00:15:48it is more than usually desirable that we should make some slight provision for the poor and the destitute.
00:15:55Excellent, then I suggest you do so.
00:15:57You miss our point, sir.
00:15:59The poor suffer greatly at the present time.
00:16:02Many thousands are in want of common necessaries.
00:16:04Are there no prisons?
00:16:06Oh, indeed there are, sir.
00:16:07That's something there's no shortage of.
00:16:09And the workhouses, are they still in operation?
00:16:11They are, sir. I wish I could say they were not.
00:16:13I'm very glad to hear it.
00:16:15For a moment I was afraid that something had occurred to stop them in their useful purpose.
00:16:19Oh, but, sir, a few of us are endeavouring to raise a fund to buy the poor some meat and drink and means of warmth.
00:16:26We choose this time, sir, because it is a time when want is keenly felt and abundance rejoices.
00:16:31What may we put you down for, sir?
00:16:33Nothing, sir.
00:16:34Ah, you wish to be anonymous.
00:16:36I wish to be left alone, sir.
00:16:38That is what I wish.
00:16:40I don't make myself merry at Christmas, and I cannot afford to make idle people merry.
00:16:44I have been forced to support the establishments I have mentioned through taxation,
00:16:48and God knows they cost more than they're worth.
00:16:50Those who are badly off must go there.
00:16:52Many would rather die than go there.
00:16:54If they would rather die, then they had better do it and decrease the surplus population.
00:16:59Good night, gentlemen.
00:17:03Humbug!
00:17:05Poppycock!
00:17:06Balderdash!
00:17:08Bad!
00:17:09Scavengers and sycophants and flatterers and fools!
00:17:13Pharisees and parasites and hypocrites and ghouls!
00:17:17Calculating swindlers, pre-barricading frauds,
00:17:22perpetrating evil as they roam the earth in hordes,
00:17:25feeding on their fellow men, raking rich rewards,
00:17:29contaminating everything they see.
00:17:33Corrupting honest men!
00:17:36Like me.
00:17:40I'm contaminated!
00:17:48I hate people.
00:17:52I hate people.
00:17:56People are despicable creatures, loathsome, inexplicable creatures,
00:18:00good-for-nothing, pickable creatures.
00:18:02I hate people!
00:18:06I abhor them.
00:18:10When I see the indolent classes sitting on their indolent arses,
00:18:14gulping ale from indolent classes,
00:18:16I hate people.
00:18:18I hate people.
00:18:22I detest them.
00:18:24I deplore them.
00:18:30Fools who have no money spend it, get in debts, then try to end it.
00:18:34Beg me on their knees, befriend them, knowing I have cash to lend them.
00:18:40Soft-hearted me.
00:18:43Hard-working me.
00:18:45Living thrifty and kind as can be.
00:18:52Situations like this are of interest to me.
00:19:02It's Mr. Scrooge.
00:19:07Two pounds, five shillings, ladies, due before Christmas, that means today.
00:19:11You see, Mr. Scrooge, sir, we've been giving more credit than usual.
00:19:14That's your business, madam. Mine is to collect two pounds, five shillings now.
00:19:18We sell things for children, sir, and at this time of the year, people can't afford to pay...
00:19:22Neither can I afford it, madam.
00:19:25However, I will allow you an extra week's credit.
00:19:30Oh, thank you, sir.
00:19:32Thank you, Mr. Scrooge.
00:19:33Which will only cost you a further twelve shillings.
00:19:38Twelve? Oh, but, Mr. Scrooge...
00:19:40We scarcely make that much in a week.
00:19:42If you would prefer me to confiscate your stall and its contents, which is my legal right, I will do so.
00:19:49Will you, please, sir?
00:19:51You will both sign this.
00:19:57And you can give me a pair of these.
00:19:59Certainly, Mr. Scrooge.
00:20:02Oh, look, there's that lovable father Christmas again.
00:20:05Merry Christmas, sir. Penny for the baby, sir.
00:20:09Penny for the baby, sir.
00:20:12I hate people. I loathe people.
00:20:16I despise and abominate people.
00:20:22Life is full of cretinous wretches earning what their sweatiness fetches.
00:20:26Empty minds whose pettiness stretches further than I can see.
00:20:32Little wonder, I hate people.
00:20:36I hate people.
00:20:40And I don't care if they hate me.
00:20:56Not now, Mr. Scrooge, please.
00:20:58Two pounds seven and six, Miller.
00:21:00And now is as good a time as any.
00:21:03But I'm performing.
00:21:04You're always performing. Where's my money?
00:21:07Tomorrow for sure, Mr. Scrooge. After the Christmas morning show.
00:21:10It's my best day of the year.
00:21:12Tomorrow it will be two pounds ten, or I come to shake your puppets.
00:21:15All right, Mr. Scrooge. Two pounds ten.
00:21:18Oh, what a pity, what a pity, what a pity.
00:21:25For the Christmas, for the Christmas.
00:21:28Here's the meanest man in the old white world, in the old white world, you can feel it.
00:21:34He's a miser.
00:21:36He's a skim flint.
00:21:38He's a stingy lad, he's a stocking lad, for your Christmas gift, and he'll steal it.
00:21:43It's a shame, he's a villain.
00:21:47What a game for a villain to play on Christmas Day.
00:21:56Off the air of angels sing.
00:22:00For the Christmas, for the Christmas.
00:22:03We'll be just as mean as he's ever been, and I'm here to say we should all say,
00:22:07For the Christmas, on his merry Christmas way.
00:22:25For the Christmas, for the Christmas.
00:22:29He's the rockiest man in the universe, there's no one worse, you can tell it.
00:22:34He's a rascal.
00:22:36He's a bandit.
00:22:38Come.
00:22:39Come on, off the air, off the air.
00:22:40If he's a crafty one, leave your door undone, and go in your house.
00:22:45And serve.
00:22:47Here's your money, sir, very kind.
00:22:49You waste breath, sir, no one has ever shortchanged me.
00:22:56It's a crime.
00:22:58It's a scandal.
00:23:00What a game for a vandal to play on Christmas Day.
00:23:09Holiday, holiday, holiday, holiday.
00:23:18There he is.
00:23:25Merry Christmas.
00:23:26Merry Christmas, ha, ha, ha.
00:23:29Labrador, sweet Labrador.
00:23:32Labrador, sweet Labrador.
00:23:38Hot broth, Mr. Scrooge. A small token of Christmas esteem with the compliments of Tom Jenkins.
00:23:44No.
00:23:46And there'll be a free can of broth, sir, every night for the coming year in gratitude for your infinite kindness in giving me another two weeks to pay.
00:23:54One week.
00:23:56Ten days?
00:23:57One week.
00:23:58One week.
00:24:00And put a lid on that stuff. I'll take it home.
00:24:02If you distrust Father Christmas, it's as well to know that he's told himself.
00:24:10Cos I mean to say we should all send Father Christmas.
00:24:13Yes!
00:24:17Father Christmas! Father Christmas! Father Christmas! Father Christmas!
00:24:21On his merry Christmas way!
00:24:32Scrooge.
00:24:58Scrooge.
00:25:18Scrooge.
00:25:31Handbag.
00:26:01Merry Christmas, Governor. Merry Christmas.
00:26:11Merry Christmas.
00:26:31Scrooge.
00:26:59Scrooge.
00:27:23Scrooge.
00:27:33It's handbag still.
00:27:36I'll not believe it.
00:28:06Scrooge.
00:28:26Scrooge.
00:28:56Scrooge.
00:29:12Huh.
00:29:42Scrooge.
00:29:54Scrooge.
00:30:23Scrooge.
00:30:35How now?
00:30:37What do you want with me?
00:30:39Much.
00:30:42Who are you?
00:30:44In life, I was your partner, Jake Marley.
00:30:56Can you sit down?
00:30:58Of course I can sit down.
00:31:01Do so then.
00:31:20You don't believe in me, do you?
00:31:24No, I don't.
00:31:27Why do you doubt the evidence of your own eyes?
00:31:33Because I've had a slight stomach disorder.
00:31:39It has undoubtedly affected my vision.
00:31:43You're an hallucination.
00:31:46Probably brought on by an undigested bit of beef.
00:31:52Or a blob of mustard.
00:31:54Or a crumb of cheese.
00:31:56Or an old potato.
00:31:58Yes, that's what you are.
00:32:00You are an old potato.
00:32:04You do not exist, Jake Marley.
00:32:06It's handbag, I tell you.
00:32:08It's a lot of...
00:32:09It's a lot of...
00:32:20Everything is wrong.
00:32:22Now do you believe in me?
00:32:25I believe in you absolutely.
00:32:28But why do you want this?
00:32:30Why do you come to persecute me?
00:32:32And what is that great chain you wear?
00:32:36I wear the chain I forged in life.
00:32:40I made it.
00:32:42Link by link.
00:32:44And yard by yard.
00:32:47While on earth.
00:32:49And now I can never be rid of it.
00:32:52Any more than you will ever be rid of yours.
00:32:59Mine?
00:33:00It was as heavy and long as this seven Christmases ago.
00:33:05It's a terrible, ponderous chain you are making, Scrooge.
00:33:12Tell me more, Marley.
00:33:14But speak comfort to me.
00:33:16I have none to give.
00:33:18None?
00:33:19Comfort comes from other sources, Ebenezer Scrooge.
00:33:23And is given by other ministers than I.
00:33:27To other kinds of men than you.
00:33:32When I lived, my spirit like yours never walked beyond the narrow limits of our counting house.
00:33:41But you were always a good man of business.
00:33:45Mankind should be our business, Ebenezer.
00:33:50But we seldom attend to it.
00:33:54As you shall see.
00:34:02Marley!
00:34:07Marley! Marley! Marley!
00:34:24See the phantoms filling the sky around you.
00:34:30They astound you.
00:34:32I can tell.
00:34:35These inhabitants of hell.
00:34:44Poor wretches whom the hand of heaven ignores.
00:34:49Beware. Beware. Beware.
00:34:55Lest their dreadful fate be yours.
00:35:25It was a dream.
00:35:50Yes, that was a dream.
00:35:54Yes, that's what it was. A dream.
00:35:59It's not a dream, Ebenezer.
00:36:04For pity's sake, Marley, leave me in peace.
00:36:07It was for pity's sake I came here.
00:36:11Pity for you.
00:36:14I leave you.
00:36:16With just the tiniest chance of escaping my fate.
00:36:23You were always a good friend to me, Jacob. Thank you.
00:36:27You will be visited by three ghosts.
00:36:33I think I'd rather not.
00:36:35The first will appear tonight when the bell tolls one.
00:36:39Couldn't I take them all at once and get it over with, Jacob?
00:36:44The second at two o'clock.
00:36:47And the third when the bell tolls three.
00:36:54I must go now.
00:36:56Marley, wait.
00:36:57I'm doomed to wander through the world in everlasting repentance.
00:37:06Remember what has passed between us.
00:37:11Farewell, Scrooge.
00:37:17Farewell, Jacob.
00:37:47Three ghosts?
00:38:13Three hound dogs?
00:38:43Three ghosts.
00:38:57Three ghosts.
00:39:24It's past ten.
00:39:32Quarter to eleven.
00:39:38One o'clock.
00:39:45Who are you?
00:39:46Who are you?
00:39:47I am the spirit whose coming was foretold to you.
00:39:56You don't look like a ghost.
00:39:58Thank you.
00:39:59May I inquire more precisely who or what you are?
00:40:02I am the ghost of Christmas past.
00:40:06Long past?
00:40:07No, your past.
00:40:09What business brings you here?
00:40:11Your welfare.
00:40:13To be wakened by a ghost at one o'clock in the morning is hardly conducive to my welfare.
00:40:17Your redemption, then.
00:40:22Rise and walk with me.
00:40:26Where are we going?
00:40:28We are going to look at your childhood.
00:40:31Oh, come all ye fairies and gents.
00:40:35For the time of Christmas is here.
00:40:39And we're bound to watch you and sing.
00:40:44What a wonderful Christmas it can be.
00:40:48Sing a Christmas carol.
00:40:50Sing a Christmas carol.
00:40:52Sing a Christmas carol.
00:40:54Like the children do.
00:40:58Do you remember these children?
00:41:06Of course.
00:41:07All of them.
00:41:22Look.
00:41:23There's my little sister.
00:41:25Fred!
00:41:26Fred!
00:41:27Fred!
00:41:28Fred!
00:41:30Why doesn't she wave back?
00:41:32She cannot see you.
00:41:34These are but shadows of the things that have been.
00:41:43I could never join in those Christmas parties.
00:41:47The school is not quite empty, is it?
00:41:51A solitary boy, neglected by his family, is left there still.
00:41:57Oh, boy.
00:42:00A wish.
00:42:03What is it?
00:42:04Have you ever wished for a Christmas carol?
00:42:09A Christmas carol.
00:42:11A Christmas carol.
00:42:13A Christmas carol.
00:42:15A Christmas carol.
00:42:18A Christmas carol.
00:42:20A Christmas carol.
00:42:23A wish.
00:42:24What is it?
00:42:26Nothing, nothing.
00:42:28What is it you wish?
00:42:30Well, some boy singing a Christmas carol outside my door last night.
00:42:35I should have given him something.
00:42:37Let us look at another Christmas.
00:42:43Ebbie!
00:42:44Dear, dear brother.
00:42:46I've come to bring you home.
00:42:47Home with you, Fred?
00:42:48Father is so much kinder than he used to be.
00:42:51He sent me and a coach to bring you home, Ebbie.
00:42:53We'll be together all Christmas long.
00:42:56Go and fetch your things.
00:42:59Always a delicate creature, whom a breath might have withered.
00:43:03But she had a large heart.
00:43:06She had, I'll not deny it.
00:43:08She died a woman, and I believe had children.
00:43:12One child.
00:43:14Your nephew?
00:43:16Yes.
00:43:19There's a Christmas that you really enjoyed.
00:43:27Why, it's so fizzy-wiggly, Ebbie.
00:43:31I was his apprentice.
00:43:34Yo-ho, Ebeneezer.
00:43:36Yo-ho, Dick.
00:43:37Hi-ho and chirrup.
00:43:39No more work today, me boys.
00:43:42Hi-dee-hi, it's Christmas Eve, Dick.
00:43:44It's Christmas, Ebeneezer.
00:43:46Oh, come on, clear everything away before a man can say Jack Robinson.
00:43:49And make some room here before Mrs. Pessywee and her daughters arrive.
00:43:53With the punchbowl.
00:43:55My word, I am a good-looking chap.
00:43:57Strong, too.
00:43:59I used to carry sacks around all day.
00:44:01And that other fella.
00:44:03I remember him, Dick Wilkins.
00:44:05Nice young fella, very attached to me.
00:44:07He was dear, oh, dear.
00:44:17Oh.
00:44:25Mrs. Pessywee.
00:44:30Me very dear friend.
00:44:32There will now be happiness and contentment in this room.
00:44:36The like of which none of us has ever seen before.
00:44:38Begin.
00:44:41Of all the days in all the year that I'm familiar with
00:44:47There's only one that's rarely fun
00:44:49December the 25th.
00:44:51Correct.
00:44:52Ask anyone, call Robinson or Brown or Jones or Smith
00:44:55Their favourite day and they will say
00:44:57December the 25th.
00:44:59Correct.
00:45:00December the 25th, my dears, December the 25th
00:45:03The dearest day in all the year
00:45:07December the 25th.
00:45:09Ha-ha.
00:45:14December the 25th.
00:45:20Mrs. Pessywee.
00:45:22December the 25th.
00:45:23Correct.
00:45:24At times we're glad to see the back of all our kin and kith.
00:45:28But now's the date we celebrate.
00:45:30December the 25th.
00:45:31Correct.
00:45:32At times our friends may seem to be devoid of wit and pith.
00:45:35But all of us are humorous
00:45:37We're humorous.
00:45:38December the 25th.
00:45:39Correct.
00:45:40December the 25th, my dears, December the 25th
00:45:43The dearest day in all the year
00:45:47December the 25th.
00:45:49Ha-ha.
00:45:56Why didn't you join the dance?
00:45:58Because I couldn't do it.
00:46:07Ha-ha.
00:46:16December the 25th, my dears, December the 25th
00:46:19The dearest day in all the year
00:46:23December the 25th.
00:46:25Correct.
00:46:29If there's a day in history that's more than any myth
00:46:33Beyond a doubt, one day stands out
00:46:35December the 25th.
00:46:36Correct.
00:46:37I don't hear any arguments, so may I say for when
00:46:40I wish that every day could be
00:46:42December the 25th.
00:46:44Hey!
00:46:47Ha-ha.
00:46:48Ha-ha.
00:46:49Ha-ha.
00:46:50Ha-ha.
00:46:51Ha-ha.
00:46:52Ha-ha.
00:46:53Ha-ha.
00:46:54Ha-ha.
00:46:55Ha-ha.
00:46:56Ha-ha.
00:46:57Ha-ha.
00:46:58Ha-ha.
00:46:59Ha-ha.
00:47:00Ha-ha.
00:47:01Ha-ha.
00:47:02Ha-ha.
00:47:03Ha-ha.
00:47:04Ha-ha.
00:47:05Ha-ha.
00:47:06What a marvellous man.
00:47:08What's so marvellous?
00:47:10He's merely spent a few pounds of your mortal money
00:47:13Three or four, perhaps
00:47:15What is that to be deserving of so much praise?
00:47:17You don't understand
00:47:19He has the power to make us happy or unhappy
00:47:21To make our worth a pleasure and a burden
00:47:24It's nothing to do with money
00:47:34December the 25th is here
00:47:36December the 25th is here
00:47:38The year is ready for the year
00:47:41December the 25th is here
00:47:44Ha-ha.
00:47:45Ha-ha.
00:47:46Ha-ha.
00:47:47Ha-ha.
00:47:48Ha-ha.
00:47:49Ha-ha.
00:47:50Ha-ha.
00:47:51Ha-ha.
00:47:52Ha-ha.
00:47:53Ha-ha.
00:47:54Ha-ha.
00:47:55Ha-ha.
00:47:56Ha-ha.
00:47:57Ha-ha.
00:47:58Ha-ha.
00:47:59Ha-ha.
00:48:00Ha-ha.
00:48:01Ha-ha.
00:48:02Ha-ha.
00:48:03Ha-ha.
00:48:04Ha-ha.
00:48:05Ha-ha.
00:48:06Ha-ha.
00:48:07Ha-ha.
00:48:08Ha-ha.
00:48:09Ha-ha.
00:48:10Ha-ha.
00:48:11Ha-ha.
00:48:12Isabelle.
00:48:13Fessy Wicks' daughter.
00:48:17You're going to marry her, weren't you?
00:48:21Yes.
00:48:22You, you were new to me You, you were spring
00:48:50You, you were true to me You, you were everything
00:49:20They say happiness is a thing you can't see, a thing you can't touch
00:49:48I disagree
00:49:51You don't know
00:49:56Happiness is standing beside me I can see him, he can see me
00:50:07Happiness is whatever you want it to be.
00:50:14Happiness is a high hill, will I find it?
00:50:28Yes, I will.
00:50:30Happiness is the tall tree, can I climb it, watch and see?
00:50:53They say happiness is the folly of fools.
00:50:58But for me, one of the fools.
00:51:05Happiness is smiling upon me, walking my way, sharing my day.
00:51:16Happiness is whatever you want it to be.
00:51:24Happiness is a bright star, are we happy?
00:51:30Yes, we are.
00:51:33Happiness is a clear sky, give me wings and let me fly.
00:51:48Let me fly.
00:51:57For happiness is whatever you want it to be.
00:52:17You, you were good for me.
00:52:24You were my day.
00:52:30Did all you could for me.
00:52:35I let you go away.
00:52:45I did love her, you know.
00:52:47Did you?
00:52:49Oh yes, I loved her.
00:52:52Then why did you let her go?
00:52:55Never been quite sure.
00:52:58Then let us go and see.
00:53:09Ebenezer.
00:53:11Hmm?
00:53:13I've come to say goodbye.
00:53:16I'm going away, Ebenezer, you will not see me again.
00:53:19Are you gonna marry me?
00:53:21No.
00:53:24I've found another love to replace me.
00:53:27She's much more desirable than I am.
00:53:30I have no idea what you're talking about.
00:53:36This lady here.
00:53:40How shall I ever understand this world?
00:53:44There is nothing on which it is so hard as poverty,
00:53:46and yet there is nothing it condemns with such severity as the pursuit of wealth.
00:53:50You fear the world too much, Ebenezer.
00:53:53All your nobler dreams that I loved I've seen die off, one by one,
00:53:58until only the desire for gain is left.
00:54:01I'm not changed towards you, am I?
00:54:03Yes, you are.
00:54:05Your promise to me was made when you were poor and content to be so.
00:54:09You were someone else then.
00:54:11I was a boy.
00:54:12You see, your own feelings tell you that you are not what you were.
00:54:19I see that all too clearly.
00:54:22And so I can release you.
00:54:26Have I ever asked to be released?
00:54:28In words, no.
00:54:30But in a changed nature, yes.
00:54:33In everything that made my love of value to you, yes.
00:54:38If you met me today, you would not love me.
00:54:41I would. I do.
00:54:42Shh.
00:54:43I still do.
00:54:44I'm trying to listen.
00:54:46I find it impossible to discuss personal affairs during business hours.
00:54:49Now, please.
00:54:57You see, if you weigh me by gain, I weigh very little.
00:55:02And so I'm not enough for you.
00:55:04And I release you with a full heart for the love of him you once were.
00:55:08Say something, you fool! Say something!
00:55:11You may for a little while have pain in this.
00:55:14But it will pass.
00:55:15And you will dismiss the recollection of it gladly as an unprofitable dream.
00:55:20From which it happened well that you awoke.
00:55:25Don't go! It's a mistake! Don't go!
00:55:28Be happy in the life you have chosen.
00:55:31Isabel!
00:55:33Isabel?
00:55:37Isabel!
00:55:44Isabel!
00:55:53You fool!
00:55:57You fool.
00:56:03I let you go away.
00:56:09And now I can see.
00:56:15You're a dream gone by.
00:56:18Oh, how could there be...
00:56:24...such a fool...
00:56:29...as I?
00:56:35I who must travel on.
00:56:40What hope for me?
00:56:45Dream where my past has gone.
00:56:52Live with the memory.
00:56:58You, my only hope.
00:57:04You, my only love.
00:57:09You.
00:57:12You.
00:57:19You.
00:57:28Spirit, remove me from this place I can bear it no more.
00:57:38You.
00:58:09Stupid old fool.
00:58:15Getting yourself all upset over nothing.
00:58:20It's all in your imagination.
00:58:39The first at one, the second at two.
00:58:53I'm ready for you whenever you are!
00:59:02Nothing.
00:59:09Nothing.
00:59:21Ebenezer Scrooge.
00:59:27Come here, Scrooge. I'm waiting for you.
00:59:30Or shall I come in there and get you?
00:59:33I'm coming.
00:59:36I'm coming, I'm coming!
00:59:46Welcome, Scrooge.
00:59:49Is it too bright for you?
01:00:05Come over here, you weird little man.
01:00:10I am the spirit of Christmas present.
01:00:16Now look upon me.
01:00:18You have never seen the like of me before.
01:00:21Never?
01:00:22Yet how many of my brothers have you rejected in your miserable lifetime?
01:00:28I have never met any of your brothers, sir.
01:00:31You have never looked for them.
01:00:33Well, how many of them are there?
01:00:35What year is this?
01:00:37Eighteen hundred and sixty.
01:00:39Then I have eighteen hundred and fifty-nine brothers.
01:00:42Each year at this time, one of us visits this puny little planet to spread some happiness.
01:00:49And to remove as many as we can of the causes of human misery.
01:00:54Which is why I have come to see you, Ebenezer Scrooge.
01:01:00You're a funny-looking little creature.
01:01:03I must admit, I found it hard to believe you'd be as horrible as my brothers said you'd be.
01:01:09But now that I look at you, I can see they were understating the truth.
01:01:13Let me assure you that I am a man of the highest principles and the most generous spirit.
01:01:19Generous spirit? You?
01:01:22You don't know the meaning of the phrase.
01:01:25But you're about to find out.
01:01:29Now, drink this.
01:01:35What is it?
01:01:36Taste it.
01:01:44Do you like it?
01:01:47It's wonderful. I've never tasted anything like it.
01:01:51Of course you haven't.
01:01:53What is it?
01:01:54The milk of human kindness.
01:01:56There are more good things in this life, Scrooge, than you can possibly imagine.
01:02:00I'm sure there are. Can I have some more?
01:02:03Ebenezer Scrooge, the sins of man are huge.
01:02:08A never-ending symphony of villainy and infamy, duplicity, deceit and subterfuge.
01:02:16And no one's worse than Ebenezer Scrooge.
01:02:22Though man's a handy candidate for hell,
01:02:26I must admit, life sometimes has its brighter side as well.
01:02:40I like life. Life likes me.
01:02:43Life and I fairly fully agree.
01:02:47Life is fine. Life is good.
01:02:50Especially mine, which is just as it should be.
01:02:53I like pouring the wine, and why not?
01:02:58Life's a pleasure that I deny not.
01:03:10I like life, here and now.
01:03:13Life and I made a mutual vow.
01:03:15Till I die, life and I, we'll both try to be better somehow.
01:03:21And if life were a woman, she would be my wife.
01:03:25Why?
01:03:26Why? Because I like life.
01:03:29That's all very well for you, but not for me. I hate life.
01:03:33Nonsense, man. Why?
01:03:35Because life hates me, that's why.
01:03:38Scrooge, you're an even bigger fool than I took you for.
01:03:41I've never heard such a lot of self-pitying drivel.
01:03:45You don't even know how to live.
01:03:47Now you listen to me.
01:03:51I like life.
01:03:54Well, go on.
01:03:56I like life.
01:03:58That's better.
01:03:59Life likes me.
01:04:01Life likes me.
01:04:03Good, good.
01:04:04I make life a perpetual spree.
01:04:07Perpetual spree.
01:04:09Eating food.
01:04:11Drinking wine.
01:04:13Thinking food like the privilege to dime me.
01:04:16I like drinking the drink I'm drinking.
01:04:19That's better, Scrooge.
01:04:21I like thinking the thoughts I'm thinking.
01:04:25I like songs, I like dance.
01:04:28I hear music and I'm in a trance.
01:04:30Tra-la-la.
01:04:31Oom-pa-pa.
01:04:32Chances are we shall get up and prance.
01:04:36Where there's music and laughter, happiness is right.
01:04:41Why?
01:04:42Why?
01:04:43Because I like life.
01:04:49Ha-ha.
01:05:03Where there's music and laughter, happiness is right.
01:05:09Why?
01:05:10Because I like life.
01:05:15See how much we like life.
01:05:32What happened?
01:05:33What happened?
01:05:35What the devil am I doing in a pail of snow in the middle of the night?
01:05:39That's what I'd like to know.
01:05:40Where are we?
01:05:41Now, Scrooge.
01:05:42Over there lies the lavish home of Robert Cratchit Esquire...
01:05:48...who owes both the opulence of his surroundings...
01:05:51...and the magnificence of his Christmas celebrations...
01:05:54...to the high principles and generous spirit of his employer.
01:05:58I want to look in the window.
01:06:00It will cost you nothing, which I'm sure will be good news for you.
01:06:04Will they be able to see me?
01:06:05No, which I feel sure will be good news for them.
01:06:08I'll do with another of them drinks.
01:06:11Later.
01:06:12For the time being, I think it better you see things as they really are.
01:06:33Oh, nectar. Pure nectar.
01:06:35And it only tuppence a pint. You can't really grumble.
01:06:38What a tragedy it is that Her Majesty and His Worship the Lord Mayor...
01:06:41...couldn't be with us tonight. They don't know what they're missing.
01:06:44Now, you try that, my love.
01:06:47Mmm.
01:06:48Bob Cratchit, you're a genius.
01:06:49The stuffing's ready, Father.
01:06:52The marriage of roast goose and sage and onion stuffing a la Cratchit...
01:06:56...is one of the culinary miracles of our day...
01:07:00...and a living legend throughout the length and breadth of Camden Town.
01:07:05Now, the only remaining problem, my dear, is whether to put the stuffing inside the goose...
01:07:09...or the goose inside the stuffing.
01:07:12But, since the ultimate intention is to put them both inside ourselves...
01:07:16...I don't suppose it very much matters.
01:07:18And here they are, the one and only carol-singing Cratchits...
01:07:22...newly returned from their triumphant musical tour.
01:07:26How did you do, Tiny Tim?
01:07:28Temperately.
01:07:29Ooh, well done.
01:07:31Another fantastic coup by young Timothy Cratchit.
01:07:34The financial wizard at only seven years of age.
01:07:38The youngest millionaire in the vast Cratchit empire.
01:07:42Ladies and gentlemen, if I may steal a moment of your valuable time...
01:07:48...I would ask you to drink a toast to the sparkling good health of the two gentlemen...
01:07:53...whose industry and generosity have provided our sumptuous Christmas repast.
01:07:58Master Timothy Cratchit.
01:08:00Tim.
01:08:01And Mr. Ebenezer Scrooge.
01:08:09What are you trying to do, ruin our Christmas?
01:08:11But his money paid for the goose, my dear.
01:08:14No, your money paid for the goose, my dear.
01:08:17But he paid me the money.
01:08:19Because you earned it, my love.
01:08:22Fifteen shillings a week throttles an hour.
01:08:25Not a penny rise in eight years.
01:08:27Believe me, you earned it.
01:08:29Mr. Scrooge assures me that times are hard.
01:08:32He's right. For you they are, but not for himself.
01:08:35Nonetheless, he is the founder of our feast and we shall drink to it.
01:08:39Quite right.
01:08:40You, listen to this.
01:08:42The founder of our feast, indeed.
01:08:45I wish I had him here.
01:08:47I'd give him a piece of my mind to feast upon.
01:08:50He'd have indigestion for a month.
01:08:52Ethel, my dear, the children. It's Christmas.
01:08:56It needs to be Christmas, Bob,
01:08:58to drink to a rotten, hard, stingy old miser like Scrooge.
01:09:01But Ethel...
01:09:02You know he is, Bob.
01:09:04Nobody knows it better than you, my poor love.
01:09:07To Christmas, my dear.
01:09:11Children, we shall drink to your father
01:09:14for all the love and happiness he gives us.
01:09:17And to tiny Tim for the health we wish him.
01:09:21For the sake of your father,
01:09:23I'll even drink to that old miser, Mr Scrooge.
01:09:26Long life to him and to us all.
01:09:30Merry Christmas to us all.
01:09:32Merry Christmas.
01:09:33God bless us.
01:09:34God bless us, everyone.
01:09:36As I said to the Lord Mayor,
01:09:38if Her Most Gracious Majesty is feeling bored, I said,
01:09:41you wheel her over to Camden Town, I said.
01:09:44A glass of Bob Cratchit's hot punch
01:09:46and a song from Tiny Tim
01:09:48and we'll have her back on her regal feet in no time.
01:09:51Well, there's your punch.
01:09:53Now, where's our song, my Tiny Tim?
01:09:55Come on, son.
01:09:56Come on, Tim.
01:09:59On a beautiful day that I dream about
01:10:05In a world I would love to see
01:10:11Is a beautiful place where the sun comes out
01:10:17Where the sun comes out and it shines in the sky for me
01:10:26On this beautiful winter's morning
01:10:32If my wish could come true somehow
01:10:38Then the beautiful day that I dream about
01:10:45Would be here and now
01:11:00On this beautiful winter's morning
01:11:06If my wish could come true somehow
01:11:13Then the beautiful day that I dream about
01:11:21Would be here and now
01:11:32Well done, Tiny Tim. Well done.
01:11:40What an unpleasant child.
01:11:42You know, Scrooge, there are few things more nauseating to see
01:11:46than a happy family enjoying themselves at Christmas.
01:11:49Do you not agree?
01:11:51I think Bob Cratchit's really rather fond of me.
01:11:54Oh, and so is his wife. Couldn't you tell?
01:11:57She doesn't really know me.
01:11:59That is one of the few things wherein fate has blessed her.
01:12:02And what will become of Tiny Tim?
01:12:05What's this?
01:12:07Concern over a sick child?
01:12:09Have you taken leave of your senses?
01:12:11Don't mock me, spirit. Is the child very sick?
01:12:14Not that it's of any great importance to me whether he's enough, but is he?
01:12:18Well, of course he's sick.
01:12:20You mean he's seriously ill?
01:12:28Will he live?
01:12:30Well, will he?
01:12:31What does it matter to you, Ebenezer Scrooge?
01:12:34If he's going to die, then he'd better do it
01:12:37and decrease the surplus population.
01:12:42We have one more call to make.
01:12:44Ladies and gentlemen,
01:12:46will you please honour me with your undivided attention?
01:12:50The time has come that I know you all look forward to
01:12:53in this house every Christmas Eve
01:12:55when I ask you to drink to the good health and long life
01:12:58of my celebrated Uncle Ebenezer.
01:13:01Oh!
01:13:03Sounds to me as if he knows I'm here.
01:13:05Of course he doesn't. He can't see you.
01:13:08Harry, I've visited you every Christmas for the past five years
01:13:11and to this day I can never understand this extraordinary ritual
01:13:14of toasting the health of your old Uncle Ebenezer.
01:13:17I mean, everybody knows he's the most miserable old skinflint
01:13:19that ever walked God's earth.
01:13:21Who's he?
01:13:23Oh, just a friend.
01:13:25My dear Tom, it's very simple.
01:13:27He is indeed the most despicable old miser.
01:13:30Worse than you could ever possibly imagine.
01:13:34You find this amusing?
01:13:36Believe it or not, he likes you.
01:13:39I look at it this way.
01:13:41If I can wish a Merry Christmas to him,
01:13:43who is beyond dispute the most obnoxious and parsimonious
01:13:46of all living creatures,
01:13:48then I know in my heart that I am truly a man of good wisdom.
01:13:53Wait! There's more to come.
01:13:55Besides, I like old screws.
01:13:58What did I tell you?
01:13:59Truly I do.
01:14:01I can't help feeling that hidden somewhere deep inside
01:14:04that loathsome old carcass of his,
01:14:06there's a different man fighting to get out.
01:14:09Careful, Harry. He may be even worse than the one you know.
01:14:11Oh, God forbid, Tom.
01:14:13Anyway, that's the reason I ask him to come here every Christmas.
01:14:16In the forlorn hope that one day he might pick up enough goodwill
01:14:19to raise his clerk's wages by five shillings a week.
01:14:22God knows it's high time he did.
01:14:25He's greedy with other people's money.
01:14:27All right, Harry, that's enough.
01:14:29I refuse to have Christmas haunted by Uncle Ebeneezer.
01:14:33We'll have some dancing, some music,
01:14:36then we'll play some splendid party games.
01:14:39There's a charming new game called the Minister's Cat.
01:14:42It's very funny.
01:14:43You'll all end up getting very angry when you do this.
01:14:46This is for you, nephew.
01:14:48If you were in my will, I'd disinherit you.
01:14:51Scrooge!
01:14:53Come over here.
01:14:56You need some more of this.
01:14:58Raise my clerk's wages.
01:15:02Hmm. Hmm.
01:15:04Hmm-hmm-hmm.
01:15:07Hmm?
01:15:09Hmm?
01:15:18Ladies and gentlemen!
01:15:26I'm not that cute.
01:15:29Mr. City-Buddy, where's your leg?
01:15:35The Minister's Cat is a lonely cat.
01:15:37The Minister's Cat is a languid cat.
01:15:39The Minister's Cat is a lordly cat.
01:15:41The Minister's Cat is a lazy cat.
01:15:43The Minister's Cat is a ludicrous cat.
01:15:45The Minister's Cat is a lascivious cat.
01:15:47The Minister's Cat is a...
01:15:49Too late, John!
01:15:51He's out! He's out!
01:15:54You see, they get furious when they lose.
01:15:57He's out!
01:15:59Come on!
01:16:01Now, M, the Minister's Cat is a marvellous cat.
01:16:04The Minister's Cat is a marvellous cat.
01:16:06The Minister's Cat is a miserable cat.
01:16:08The Minister's Cat is a merciful cat.
01:16:10The Minister's Cat is a...
01:16:12Mary! Mary!
01:16:14Oh, damn it!
01:16:16I told you to stay, Mary! Why are you so stupid?
01:16:19He's always being stupid!
01:16:21Then stop yawning when I'm talking to you!
01:16:23What next?
01:16:25The Minister's Cat is a naughty cat.
01:16:27The Minister's Cat is a noble cat.
01:16:29The Minister's Cat is a nebulous cat.
01:16:31The Minister's Cat is a nasty cat.
01:16:34Oh, it's not!
01:16:36Oh, no, no, no, I was just about to say nasty.
01:16:39Too late! He's got a picnic net full of nervous, nauseating...
01:16:43You're out! You're out!
01:16:45The Minister's Cat is an honourable cat.
01:16:47The Minister's Cat is a holy cat.
01:16:49Yes, Mary.
01:16:52Thank you.
01:16:58Oh, thank you, my boy.
01:17:00What a wonderful evening.
01:17:02That Minister's Cat day.
01:17:04Thank you. I thought I was rather good at it.
01:17:07Good night. Good night. Thank you.
01:17:09I can honestly say I haven't enjoyed Christmas as much as this
01:17:13since I was a young fledgling at old Thessaly
01:17:16so, so many years ago.
01:17:19Yes, what Christmases we used to have in those days.
01:17:23Fantastic they were.
01:17:26He had this daughter.
01:17:30Reminded me a little bit of your mother, she did.
01:17:35Her name was Isabel.
01:17:42Oh, Isabel.
01:17:48Happiness is the only offering
01:17:54Pity poor one of the few
01:18:02Happiness is standing beside me
01:18:09I could see her
01:18:13She could see me
01:18:16Happiness is whatever
01:18:23You want it to be
01:18:37Yes, Scrooge, I have brought you home.
01:18:40You're not going.
01:18:42My time upon this little planet is very brief.
01:18:45I must leave you now.
01:18:47But we still have so much to talk about, haven't we?
01:18:51There is never enough time to do or say
01:18:54all the things that we would wish.
01:18:56The thing is to try to do as much as you can
01:18:59in the time that you have.
01:19:01Yes, but...
01:19:02Remember, Scrooge, time is short
01:19:05and suddenly you're not there anymore.
01:19:10No, wait, don't go.
01:19:12Don't leave me.
01:19:14Where are you?
01:19:16Why is it so dark?
01:19:18I can't see.
01:19:19I can't see.
01:19:20I can't see.
01:19:21I can't see.
01:19:22I can't see.
01:19:26Oh, my God, what am I doing here?
01:19:31I mean, that's what I'm doing here.
01:19:33This is where I'm supposed to be in the middle of the night.
01:19:36Was I dreaming again? I must have been.
01:19:41That giant!
01:20:07I must be mad.
01:20:09There are no giants.
01:20:11There are no ghosts.
01:20:27Am I in the presence of the ghost of Christmas yet to come?
01:20:37And you are to show me shadows of the things
01:20:40that will happen in the time before us.
01:20:42Is that so, spirit?
01:20:46Ghost of the future,
01:20:47I fear you more than any apparition I have seen.
01:20:51But as I knew, your purpose is to do me good.
01:20:54And as I hope to be another man from what I was,
01:20:57I am prepared to bear you company.
01:21:00Will you speak to me?
01:21:03The night is waning fast,
01:21:05and I know that time is precious to me.
01:21:08Lead on, spirit, lead on!
01:21:15There you are, my friends.
01:21:17Shining as bright as the earth,
01:21:19the mere mention of the name Scrooge brings to our minds.
01:21:25Ladies and gentlemen,
01:21:28we are gathered here today
01:21:30because we are united by a common bond.
01:21:35Namely, our feelings of gratitude to Mr. Ebenezer Scrooge.
01:21:43I don't think any of us can ever hope to find the words
01:21:47to describe the true depth of our feeling towards him.
01:21:53He's just a future.
01:21:56All right, my friends, all right.
01:22:00That's Tom Jenkins, the hot soup man.
01:22:03He owes me six pounds.
01:22:05I must say, it looks uncommonly happy for someone so deep in debt.
01:22:10All these people owe me money.
01:22:12They love me, and I never knew.
01:22:15Kindly hold down your emotions, if you please.
01:22:19Now, we are all deeply moved.
01:22:22Those of us what has been in debt to Mr. S. over all these years
01:22:26will never forget what a rare and beautiful thing he has just done for us.
01:22:31All right?
01:22:33Three cheers for Mr. Scrooge!
01:22:37What did I do? What did I do?
01:22:40Whatever it was, it has made me truly happy, and I am the cause.
01:22:44My friends, I thank you from the bottom of my heart.
01:22:48I shall remember this moment until my dying day.
01:22:52Hooray!
01:22:54For he's a jolly good fellow
01:22:57For he's a jolly good fellow
01:23:00For he's a jolly good fellow
01:23:04And so say all of us
01:23:06Hooray!
01:23:09May I say, in all humility
01:23:12Hooray!
01:23:14I have laboured unceasingly all my life
01:23:17Hooray!
01:23:19to be worthy of this moving demonstration of your feelings towards me.
01:23:24Hooray!
01:23:26Ladies and gentlemen,
01:23:29on behalf of all the people who have assembled here,
01:23:33I would merely like to mention, if I may,
01:23:37Hooray!
01:23:39that our unanimous attitude is one of lasting gratitude
01:23:43for what our friend has done for us tonight.
01:23:48And therefore, I would simply like to say
01:23:53Hooray!
01:23:56Thank you very much. Thank you very much.
01:23:59That's the nicest thing that anyone's ever done for me.
01:24:04I may sound awful Dutch, but my delight is such.
01:24:08I feel as if a losing war's been won for me.
01:24:12And if I had a flag, I'd hang me flag out
01:24:16to add a sort of final victory touch.
01:24:19Hooray!
01:24:20But since I left me flag alone, I'll simply have to say
01:24:24Thank you very, very, very much.
01:24:28Thank you very, very, very much.
01:24:39Thank you very much. Thank you very much.
01:24:43That's the nicest thing that anyone's ever done for me.
01:24:47It sounds a bit bizarre, but things the way they are,
01:24:51I feel as if another life's begun for me.
01:24:56And if I had a cannon, I would fire it
01:25:00to add a sort of celebration touch.
01:25:04But since I left me cannon alone, I'll simply have to say
01:25:08Thank you very, very, very much.
01:25:12Thank you very, very, very much.
01:25:23It's a shame, all of us.
01:25:25Thank you very much.
01:25:27Thank you very much.
01:25:29That's the nicest thing that anyone's ever done for me.
01:25:34It isn't every day, good fortune comes me way.
01:25:38I never thought the future would be fun for me.
01:25:42And if I...
01:25:43Hey! You woke my baby. Will you keep quiet?
01:25:46Beg your pardon, lady.
01:25:48And if I had a bugle, I would blow it
01:25:51Shh!
01:25:52to add a sort of agitator touch.
01:25:58But since I left me bugle alone, I'll simply have to say
01:26:02Thank you very, very, very much.
01:26:06Thank you very, very, very much.
01:26:10No, no, dear friends, it is I who should thank you.
01:26:13Thank you very much.
01:26:15Thank you very much.
01:26:17That's the nicest thing that anyone's ever done for me.
01:26:21The future looks all right.
01:26:23In fact, it looks so bright.
01:26:25I feel as if the publishing's done for me.
01:26:29And if I had a drum, I'd like to play it
01:26:33to add a sort of agitator
01:26:37But since I left me bugle alone,
01:26:41I'll simply have to say
01:26:47The colour hurts my eyes.
01:26:50I mustn't show weak eyes to your father when he gets home.
01:26:54It must be near his time.
01:26:56Past it.
01:26:58But I think he's walked a little slower these last few evenings.
01:27:01I've known him walk with Tiny Tim on his shoulder very fast indeed.
01:27:06But he was light to carry.
01:27:08It was no trouble. No trouble.
01:27:10Where is Tiny Tim?
01:27:18Take me to him.
01:27:20Take me to him.
01:27:26On this beautiful winter's morning
01:27:32If my wish could come true somehow
01:27:39Then the beautiful day that I dream about
01:27:47Would be true
01:27:52And true
01:28:03I must go now, my little fellow.
01:28:06I promised your mother I'd help her with the Christmas dinner.
01:28:11I'll come and see you again tomorrow.
01:28:14Same time.
01:28:16What?
01:28:20Who Tim?
01:28:41Poor Tiny Tim.
01:28:46Spirit, you've shown me a Christmas yet to come
01:28:49that mingles great happiness with great sadness.
01:28:53But what is to become of me?
01:29:17Please, I beg you.
01:29:19I've seen the error of my ways.
01:29:21I will repent. Truly, I will repent.
01:29:47No!
01:29:49No!
01:29:51No!
01:30:16No!
01:30:46No!
01:31:17So there you are.
01:31:22Where am I?
01:31:25Where am I?
01:31:27I should have thought it was obvious.
01:31:30I heard you were coming down today, so I thought I'd come to greet you.
01:31:34Show you to your quarters.
01:31:39Nobody else wanted to.
01:31:42That's very similar to your madness.
01:31:48I am dead, aren't I?
01:31:51As a coffin nail.
01:31:57I'd rather hope I didn't end up in heaven.
01:32:00Did you indeed?
01:32:02You may find your office here rather small,
01:32:05but not, I trust, unfamiliar.
01:32:08Office?
01:32:09Your activities in life were so pleasing to Lucifer
01:32:13that he has appointed you to be his personal clerk.
01:32:17A singular honor.
01:32:19You will be to him, so to speak, what Bob Cratchit was to you.
01:32:24That's not fair!
01:32:26It's... it's...
01:32:28Diabolical, I must confess.
01:32:31I find it not altogether unamusing.
01:32:34Here we are, my dear Ebenezer.
01:32:39Your office.
01:32:42Your office.
01:32:44It's freezing cold in here.
01:33:12Lucifer turned the heat off.
01:33:14He thought it might make you drowsy.
01:33:17You'll be the only man in hell who's chilly.
01:33:21Watch out for the rats.
01:33:23They nibble things.
01:33:25Rats!
01:33:30Oh, I almost forgot.
01:33:35I knew there was something.
01:33:37They apologize that your...
01:33:41chain wasn't ready for your arrival.
01:33:45It's so big, they had to take on extra devils
01:33:49at the foundry to finish it.
01:33:51It's even bigger than I thought it would be.
01:33:57Oh, here it is now.
01:34:07Don't let them do this to me, Bailey, I beg you!
01:34:38That's quite a chain, isn't it?
01:34:42Help me! Help me!
01:34:45Bah, Humbug.
01:34:48Merry Christmas.
01:34:50Don't leave me, Bailey!
01:34:53Bailey!
01:34:55Help! Help!
01:34:57Help! Help!
01:34:59Help!
01:35:01Help! Help!
01:35:03Help!
01:35:07Help!
01:35:15Where am I?
01:35:18I'm in my own room.
01:35:22I'm not in hell at all.
01:35:25I haven't got any chains.
01:35:29Perhaps it didn't happen after all.
01:35:36Perhaps it did.
01:35:40But I'm alive!
01:35:43Help!
01:35:45I'm alive!
01:35:48I've got a chance to change,
01:35:51and I will not be the man I was.
01:35:57I'll begin again.
01:36:00I will build my life.
01:36:03I will live to know that I've fulfilled my life.
01:36:08I'll begin today.
01:36:11Throw away the past,
01:36:13and the future I build will be something that will last.
01:36:24I will take the time I have left to live,
01:36:30and I will give it all that I have left to give.
01:36:35I will live my days for my fellow men,
01:36:41and I'll live in praise of that moment when
01:36:46I was able to begin again.
01:37:00I will start anew.
01:37:03I will make amends,
01:37:06and I'll make quite certain that the story ends
01:37:13on a note of hope,
01:37:17on a strong amen,
01:37:20and I'll thank the world
01:37:24and remember when
01:37:27I was able to begin again.
01:37:41I don't know what to do.
01:37:47I would like to do better.
01:37:51I'm as happy as an angel.
01:37:57I'm as giddy as a drunken man.
01:38:03Merry Christmas, everybody.
01:38:09Oh, Jacob Barley, wherever you are,
01:38:13you shall see a change in me, Jacob, I swear it.
01:38:20Ha, ha, ha!
01:38:33My, my, my! What day is it?
01:38:36Today?
01:38:37Today!
01:38:38Why, Christmas Day, of course.
01:38:39It's Christmas Day! I haven't missed it!
01:38:44The spirits have done it all in one night.
01:38:46Well, they can do what they like, you see.
01:38:48Of course they can! Of course they can!
01:38:51Hello, my fine young fellow.
01:38:53Hello.
01:38:54Do you know the butcher's in the next street, but one?
01:38:56I should hope so.
01:38:57What a remarkable boy, an intelligent boy.
01:39:00He happened to know if they've sold a prized turkey
01:39:02that was hanging up in the window,
01:39:04not the big one, the enormous one.
01:39:06What, you mean the one as big as me?
01:39:08What a wonderful boy!
01:39:10So it is a pleasure to talk to him.
01:39:12Yes, that's the one.
01:39:13It's still there?
01:39:14It is. Go and buy it.
01:39:15What's that?
01:39:16He's too suffering.
01:39:17Go and wake up the butcher and tell him to open his shop.
01:39:20Meet me there in ten minutes.
01:39:22Behold him, that turkey, and I'll give you a half a crown.
01:39:25Go on, run! Run, run!
01:39:28Run! Run!
01:39:32Oh, what a lovely boy!
01:39:34I think I'm going to like children.
01:39:37Now, that's what I call a turkey.
01:39:39It's twice the size of Tiny Tim.
01:39:41Come on, dear boy.
01:39:42Let's go and open the toy shop.
01:39:44Thank you! Merry Christmas!
01:39:48I have that, and some of those,
01:39:51and the hobby horse,
01:39:53and then some flutes, and some trumpets,
01:39:57and that doll,
01:40:00and some bows and arrows,
01:40:02yes, oh, yes,
01:40:04and I must have a cricket bat,
01:40:07and these, and these,
01:40:09and the horse and the spinning top,
01:40:11and the piano,
01:40:13and all those dolls,
01:40:15yes, oh, I like that,
01:40:18oh, and this beautiful coach,
01:40:20and several kites,
01:40:22and the horse,
01:40:24and these boats,
01:40:26and some of these.
01:40:32Oh, boy,
01:40:34I'll have that.
01:40:36Now, how much is all this?
01:40:38Well, never mind.
01:40:40Here are some sovereigns, and you can keep the change.
01:40:43Oh, thank you, Mr. Scrooge.
01:40:45And I shall require the services of several small boys
01:40:48to help to transport these delightful objects to their destination,
01:40:52and each boy shall receive a half a crown.
01:40:54Half a crown, yes, Mr. Scrooge.
01:40:56Mr. Scrooge,
01:40:58what has happened?
01:41:00What happened?
01:41:02It's perfectly simple, Pringle.
01:41:04I've discovered that I like life.
01:41:11I like life.
01:41:13Life likes me.
01:41:15Life and I fairly fully agree.
01:41:17Life is fine.
01:41:19Life is good,
01:41:21especially mine,
01:41:23which is just as it should be.
01:41:25I like pouring the wine,
01:41:27and why not?
01:41:29Life's a pleasure
01:41:31that I deny not.
01:41:33I like life
01:41:35here and now.
01:41:37Here and now,
01:41:39life and I made a mutual vow.
01:41:41Till I die, life and I,
01:41:43we both tried to be better somehow.
01:41:47And if life were a woman,
01:41:50she would be my wife.
01:41:58Why?
01:42:00Because I like life.
01:42:05Oh, no, Mr. Scrooge!
01:42:07No! Let me! Let me!
01:42:09Let me!
01:42:24I like life.
01:42:26Life likes me.
01:42:28I made life a perpetual spree.
01:42:30Eating food, drinking wine,
01:42:32eating food like the privilege that I meet.
01:42:34I like living the life of pleasure.
01:42:38Oh!
01:42:39Forcing only to take my leisure.
01:42:46I like songs.
01:42:48I like dance.
01:42:49I hear music and I'm in a trance.
01:42:56Tra-la-la.
01:42:57Oh, Papa.
01:42:59Chances are I shall get up and dance.
01:43:02Tra-la-la.
01:43:07When there's music and laughter,
01:43:09happiness is right.
01:43:11Why?
01:43:12Why?
01:43:13Because I like life.
01:43:18Hey!
01:43:29Uncle Ebenezer!
01:43:32Oh, ho!
01:43:33Merry Christmas to you, my dear nephew!
01:43:36And to your enchanting wife,
01:43:38who had just run away to your house with some presents.
01:43:41These are for you.
01:43:43I'm an old fool who deeply regrets the Christmases gone by
01:43:47that he might have shared with you.
01:43:50This is for you, my dear.
01:43:53A sort of belated wedding present.
01:43:56Oh, Uncle Ebenezer.
01:43:58Thank you.
01:44:00Christmas lunch is sharp at three.
01:44:03May we expect you?
01:44:07You may.
01:44:10I'll be there.
01:44:12You are a pretty girl.
01:44:18I hear songs.
01:44:19I like dance.
01:44:20I hear music and I'm in a trance.
01:44:23Tra-la-la.
01:44:24Oh, Papa.
01:44:25Chances are I shall get up and dance.
01:44:30When there's music and laughter,
01:44:33happiness is right.
01:44:35Why?
01:44:36Because I like life.
01:44:39Merry Christmas to you, my dear nephew!
01:44:42And to your enchanting wife,
01:44:45who had just run away to your house with some presents.
01:44:49These are for you.
01:44:51I'm an old fool who deeply regrets the Christmases gone by
01:44:55that he might have shared with you.
01:44:58This is for you, my dear.
01:45:00I'm an old fool who deeply regrets the Christmases gone by
01:45:04that he might have shared with you.
01:45:07That he might have shared with you.
01:45:38In the morning.
01:45:40In the morning.
01:45:41Christmas morning.
01:45:42Christmas morning.
01:45:43If you lift your eyes, there's a big surprise,
01:45:46and you'll make no sense.
01:45:47Just look on and it's fun.
01:45:50Just look on and it's fun.
01:45:54That's how Christmas should be.
01:46:00Merry Christmas!
01:46:02A Merry Christmas to you, sir,
01:46:05from Father Christmas himself.
01:46:08Oh, dear.
01:46:09Don't worry about your goose, Mrs. Cratchit.
01:46:11You can use it as stuffing for this.
01:46:15Now, where are the other presents?
01:46:18This dolly is for you, my dear,
01:46:21and this one is for you,
01:46:23and this pretty little dolly is for you.
01:46:27It's the dolly in the corner.
01:46:31Those are for you, my boy.
01:46:33Thank you.
01:46:34And these, Bob Cratchit,
01:46:37are for you and your good lady.
01:46:40I must leave you now.
01:46:41As you can imagine, it's a very busy day for me,
01:46:44and I have many more calls to make.
01:46:49I almost forgot.
01:46:55This is for you.
01:47:01You didn't steal it, did you?
01:47:04No, I didn't steal it.
01:47:06It's a present for you
01:47:08to keep a Merry Christmas charity.
01:47:12You still don't recognize me, do you, Bob Cratchit?
01:47:15Yes. No.
01:47:17Your Father Christmas?
01:47:19No.
01:47:20Ah!
01:47:21It's Mr. Scrooge.
01:47:22He's gone mad.
01:47:24It's all right, my dear.
01:47:25There's nothing to be frightened of.
01:47:26No, I haven't gone mad.
01:47:28And on Monday when you, salary will be doubled.
01:47:31Doubled? He has gone mad.
01:47:32We'll sit together and discuss
01:47:33how I can help your family to start with.
01:47:36We'll find the right doctors to get you well,
01:47:39and we will get you well, you know, Bob.
01:47:41Yes, I believe you.
01:47:43I believe anything.
01:47:44And may this be the merriest Christmas of all our lives.
01:47:48Hooray!
01:47:50Some Jenkins, some Jenkins.
01:47:52About that six pounds you owe me.
01:47:54You agreed to give me a few more days, Mr. Scrooge.
01:47:56I just need a few more days.
01:47:57You can keep it.
01:47:58It's my Christmas present to you.
01:48:01God bless you this Christmas day, Mr. Scrooge.
01:48:04Thank you very much.
01:48:06Thank you very much.
01:48:08That's the nicest thing that anyone's ever done for me.
01:48:12It sounds a bit bizarre, but things the way they are.
01:48:16I feel as if another life's begun for me.
01:48:20Hooray!
01:48:22And that goes for anyone else who owes me money.
01:48:25You can keep it as of this day.
01:48:27All my debts are ended.
01:48:29Hooray!
01:48:31If I ever drown, I am for bagging.
01:48:34To end your so-called rotty-tumsy charge.
01:48:40But since I left me trouble at home, I simply have to say
01:48:44Thank you very, very, very much.
01:48:48Thank you very much.
01:48:50Thank you very much.
01:48:52That's the nicest thing that anyone's ever done for me.
01:48:56It isn't every day.
01:48:58Good fortune comes my way.
01:49:00I never thought the future would be bad for me.
01:49:04Hooray!
01:49:08And if I ever build a house on Maui
01:49:12To end the so-called rash of poverty
01:49:16But since I left me trouble at home, I simply have to say
01:49:20Fair gentlemen, Merry Christmas.
01:49:22Merry Christmas, Mr. Scrooge.
01:49:24Come to my office on Monday morning
01:49:27And I will give you 100 guineas for your most worthy cause
01:49:30And the same every Christmas.
01:49:32Thank you very, very much, Mr. Scrooge.
01:49:35Thank you very, very, very much.
01:49:42Thank you very much.
01:49:44Thank you very much.
01:49:46That's the nicest thing that anyone's ever done for me.
01:49:50The future looks all right.
01:49:52The present looks all right.
01:49:54I feel as if there's always something for me.
01:49:58Sing a Christmas carol.
01:50:00Sing a Christmas carol.
01:50:02Sing a Christmas carol.
01:50:04Sing a Christmas carol.
01:50:06And children, don't sing a Christmas carol.
01:50:08And if I ever build a house on Maui
01:50:12To end the so-called rash of poverty
01:50:16But since I left me trouble at home, I simply have to say
01:50:20Merry Christmas, Mr. Scrooge.
01:50:26I simply have to say
01:50:28Merry Christmas, Mr. Scrooge.
01:50:30Thank you very, very, very much.
01:50:38Thank you very much.
01:50:40Thank you very much.
01:50:42That's the nicest thing that anyone's ever done for me.
01:50:46And if I ever build a house on Maui
01:50:50To end the so-called rash of poverty
01:50:54But since I left me trouble at home, I simply have to say
01:51:00Merry Christmas, Mr. Scrooge.
01:51:04I simply have to say
01:51:06Merry Christmas, Mr. Scrooge.
01:51:10Thank you very, very, very much.
01:51:14Thank you very, very, very much.
01:51:20Thank you very, very, very much.
01:51:24Thank you very, very, very much.
01:51:36Merry Christmas.
01:51:38Merry Christmas.
01:51:44Merry Christmas.
01:51:48Merry Christmas.
01:51:50I don't know whether you can hear me, old Jacob Marley, but I don't know whether or
01:52:16not I imagined the things I saw. But between the pair of us, we finally made a Merry Christmas,
01:52:24didn't we? I have to leave you now. Must go and get ready. I'm going to have Christmas
01:52:34dinner with my family.
01:53:34Merry Christmas!
01:54:04Merry Christmas!