FREE: "Scrooge" w/Albert Finney December 20, 2008

AMERICAN CINEMATHEQUE Presents

**FREE Family Matinee**

Saturday, December 20 – 2:00 PM

SCROOGE
1970, CBS Films (Hollywood Classics), 113 min.
Albert Finney is the gleefully wicked miser Scrooge who spreads the “humbug” at yuletide in this glorious musical adaptation by Leslie Bricusse of Dickens’ ode to brotherhood and the terrible power of karma. When elderly Scrooge retires to bed, resenting his employee Bob Cratchett for getting a holiday on Christmas, he’s confronted by the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future – all showing him the lonely consequences of the selfish path he’s taken. Director Ronald Neame was a Dickens veteran, having produced David Lean’s GREAT EXPECTATIONS and OLIVER TWIST. Here, he proved himself to be a wonderfully humorous and sympathetic filmmaker in his own right. Co-starring Alec Guinness, Edith Evans and Kenneth More. Made possible with a grant from the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce and its Foundation. FREE ADMISSION!

Egyptian Theatre
6712 Hollywood Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA
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