02 Nov 1995
Short Working Day
A dramatisation of the workers' protests in June 1976 in Radom, seen from the perspective of the local Secretary of the Polish United Workers' Party. [Produced in 1981, but not commercially released until 1996.]
Scrooge
What happened when Scrooge saw Marley's face on the door knocker...and the clock struck twelve!
Ebenezer Scrooge, the ultimate Victorian miser, hasn't a good word for Christmas, though his impoverished clerk Cratchit and nephew Fred are full of holiday spirit. In the night, Scrooge is visited by spirits of the past, present, and future.
Top Billed Cast
Seymour Hicks Ebenezer Scrooge
Donald Calthrop Bob Cratchit
Robert Cochran Fred
Mary Glynne Belle
Garry Marsh Belle's Husband
Oscar Asche Spirit of Christmas Present
Athene Seyler Scrooge's Charwoman
Maurice Evans Poor Man
Mary Lawson Poor Man's Wife
Barbara Everest Mrs. Cratchit
Eve Gray Fred's Wife
Morris Harvey Poulterer with Prize Turkey
Philip Frost Tiny Tim
D.J. Williams Undertaker
Margaret Yarde Scrooge's Laundress
Hugh E. Wright Old Joe
Charles Carson Middlemark
Hubert Harben Worthington
Marie Ney Spirit of Christmas Past
C. V. France Spirit of Christmas Future
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