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''A Christmas Carol'' is a 1938 American film adaptation of Charles Dickens's 1843 novelette ''A Christmas Carol'', about Ebenezer Scrooge (Reginald Owen), an elderly miser, who learns the error of his ways on Christmas Eve after visitations by four spirits, prompting a radical change in his personality on Christmas morning. ==Plot summary== The film opens on Christmas Eve in early Victorian London where Fred (Barry Mackay) arrives at the counting-house of his maternal uncle, Ebenezer Scrooge (Reginald Owen). Despite being invited to dine with his nephew the next day, Scrooge refuses. He then turns away two men who are collecting money for the poor, instead supporting the prisons and workhouses. That night Scrooge allows his clerk Bob Cratchit (Gene Lockhart) the next day off with pay but orders him back all the earlier the day after. After Bob accidentally knocks Scrooge's hat off with a snowball Scrooge sacks him on the spot, and deducts him a shilling. Bob spends the last of his wages on food for his family's Christmas dinner. At home Scrooge is confronted by the ghost of his seven-years-deceased partner, Jacob Marley (Leo G.Carroll), who in his life, was also mean and greedy and as a result, his spirit is forced to carry a chain as a reminder of all the deeds he did in his life instead of helping others as well as not getting to rest in peace. He tells Scrooge he will be haunted by three spirits and is to expect the first at one in the morning. As Marley warned the Ghost of Christmas Past (Ann Rutherford) shows Scrooge his youthful years. Scrooge is shown when he was left to spend the holidays alone at school until his sister, Fan, came to take him home for Christmas. Fan would die years after her son Fred was born. Scrooge is then shown when he worked for Fezziwig before he became obsessed with money and profit (which Scrooge refuses to witness). The second spirit the Ghost of Christmas Present (Lionel Braham) shows Scrooge how others keep Christmas. At a church service the spirit predicts that Fred may not be able to marry his fiancée, Bess, (Lynn Carver) as despite not living in poverty Fred simply hasn't the money to pay for the wedding and their love may end (just how Scrooge lost his unnamed fiancée in his youth). Scrooge is shown Bob dining with his family. Despite being happy Bob is deep down still crestfallen he lost his job (though nobody except Martha knows this). The spirit then hints that Bob's youngest son, Timothy "Tiny Tim" (Terry Kilburn), will die of his unknown illness if the future does not change. The final spirit the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come (D'arcy Corrigan) shows Scrooge what will happen if he does not change. Scrooge discovers Tiny Tim is dead and his family mourn for him. Scrooge also discovers the dead man some other men spoke of and was on the bed was himself after seeing his gravestone. Scrooge promises to repent and returns home. Back home Scrooge now a changed man orders a boy to buy a turkey for him and decides to take it to the Cratchits. Scrooge gives a donation to the same two men and makes Fred his new partner. He then goes to the Cratchit house where he rehires Bob and increases his wages and ends the film wishing everyone a "Merry Christmas". 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「A Christmas Carol (1938 film)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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