Rejoice! SCROOGE is finally coming to DVD! (1 Viewer)

[BrianCC]

SCROOGE on DVD?!

Thank you very much,
Thank you very much!
That's the nicest thing that anyone's ever done for me...

(I can't believe nobody else posted that yet.

 

[ScottL]

I was waiting for someone to bite.

 

[Howard S]

Wonderful, wonderful news!

I've only ever seen this film in overly contrasty and overly bright pan & scan television versions - sometimes with musical sequences either completely cut or shortened, and with a poor quality, distorted soundtrack with little dynamic range.

Here's hoping that the DVD transfer will be all that we would wish for....

Thanks Martin Blythe.

 

[Eric Paddon]

Glad this is coming out at long last on DVD as it means I can retire the LD version. I have to admit, I loved this film more when I was a child then I do now (I grew up for years seeing this on TV with the entire Hell sequence cut from the film and it was a revelation to see that for the first time after ten years of TV viewings where I didn't know it existed). For me, the 1951 version with Alistair Sim is the definitive version of the story and I think any version of "Christmas Carol" that leaves out Ghost of Christmas Present's mocking refrain of "Are there no prisons? Are there no workhouses?" as he departs is automatically weakened.