Scrooge (1913)
Date: 1913
Director: Leedham Bantock
Production Company: Zenith Film Company
Stars: Seymour Hicks, William Lugg, Leedham Bantock
Location(s): Hampshire
Region(s): South East R-Z
Storyline:
Charles Dickens settles down to write his famous novel and the tale of the miserly Ebenezer Scrooge unfolds.
Additional Information:
Screen captures by Phil Wilkinson
Also known as ‘Old Scrooge’ (US Title)
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- 18 Aug 2022
While in the midst of writing “Martin Chuzzlewit” the inspiration of “A Christmas Carol” came to Charles Dickens. This is his birthplace at 393 Commercial Road, Portsmouth in Hampshire.
The house now has a blue plaque as David O'Donogue's comparison shows.
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Ebenezer Scrooge (Seymour Hicks) is a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous old sinner. Hard and sharp as flint. The second, and only other, location appears to be a small courtyard entered through the background gates seen here.
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The cold within him freezes his old features, nips his pointed nose, stiffens his gait; makes his eyes red, his lips blue. No warmth can warm, nor wintry weather chill him. No wind blows bitterer than he.
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To edge his way along the paths of life, warning all human sympathy to keep its distance, is the very thing he likes.
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The old miser approaches the dingy office of Scrooge & Marley. Jacob Marley was dead, but Scrooge never went to the expense of changing the sign.
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A little later, Scrooge’s clerk Bob Cratchit says goodbye to his crippled son Tiny Tim before entering the office to start work.