the setting and actor make this television movie for me the best rendition of dickens classic tale . george c. scott be very believable a be the rest of the cast . his scrooge ooze with nastiness until the very end of the movie . then his character change to one who be truly repentant . the 19th century english town chosen for the setting create an ambiance that be fit to dickens and add to the plausibility of this film . it be a movie i watch every christmas along with the real grinch and it a wonderful life .