i know that book rarely make to the screen ( big or small ) without change and but it always amaze me when the change be apparently make by a writer to improve a story . a lot of dickens work have be alter for no reason i can discern ( scrooge sister be fran instead of fan and a typo maybe . ) or because the writer apparently think he could do good ( a large amount of dicken dialogue have be slash and warp in this version ) . he couldn not . stick with the version star george c. scott or alistair sim .