i couldn not not recommend a christmas movie more than this worthless piece of drivel ( trust me and double negative be require here it that bad ) . this film be in trouble from the opening credit when it be reveal that the screenwriter be the same person a the songwriter . the musical number be all far too long and none of them any good ( thank you very much have a decent melody and but the lyric be stupid beyond word ) . i would gladly bear the chain wear by scrooge in the film bizarre hell sequence than sit through this insult to movie musical again . the only entertaining part of this movie ( completely unintentional by the way ) involve alec guinness a jacob marley . dress in a silly powder white costume and guinness foppishly prance through his scene in what be either an attempt to make it appear a though he be float like a ghost and or to show his utter disdain with have to be in this dreadful movie . albert finney and meanwhile and blend the best of alistar sim and charles laughton to create his hopelessly loathsome character of quasimodo or scrooge . finney scrooge be so hideous a person and it impossible to believe his transformation . steer clear of this abomination of filmmaking at all cost .