Celebrating A Christmas Carol, we offer 10 Scrooges from film: Michael Caine (A Muppet Christmas Carol,) 1992, Alastair Sim, 1951, Bill Murray (Scrooged,) 1988, Reginald Owen, 1938, Albert Finney (Scrooge: A Musical,) 1970, Jim Carrey, 2009, Seymour Hicks, 1935, George C. Scott, 1984, Thomas Rickets, 1910, and Scrooge McDuck (Mickey’s Christmas Carol,) 1983.
Jane Fonda in a publicity still for Period of Adjustment (1962)
Barbara Stanwyck & Fred MacMurray in Remember The Night | 1940 (Mitchell Leisen)
Fred MacMurray takes Barbara Stanwyck home for Christmas in REMEMBER THE NIGHT (‘40)
The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965) directed by George Stevens
“You may conquer the land. You may slaughter the people. But that is not the end. We will rise again.”
Ben-Hur (1959) dir. William Wyler
Remembering Ruth Roman on her birthday, here with Doris Day in STARLIFT (‘51)
Stars in My Crown (1950) | Quantum Leap (1990)
Santa Claus - Nightmare Inducing Weirdness From South of the Border
Continuing to scrape the bottom of the Xmas Barrel here at ‘Can’t Stop Watching’, and last night we queued up this Mexican Santa Claus movie from the sixties featuring a truly frightening Santa taking on a demon from the underworld intent on making kids ‘be bad’. Thank goodness for the good folks at MST3K for making this one moderately watchable. I had the choice of watching it either with or without their color commentary, and I’m glad I chose the former, as otherwise I probably wouldn’t have been able to make it through the 'singing children of many lands’ opening sequence without turning it off out of sheer boredom.
If you enjoyed 'Santa Claus versus the Martians’, then this one will be right down your alley, with enough Christmas Weirdness to provide nightmares throughout the coming new year.
1 star out of 5
Released 1959, First Viewing December 2010
Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961)
That night, fleeing from Transylvania, Professor Abronsius never guessed he was carrying away with him the very evil he had wished to destroy. Thanks to him, this evil would at last be able to spread across the world.
The Fearless Vampire Killers (1967) dir. Roman Polanski
(Source: gene-tierney)
