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Michael Caine played him in A Muppet Christmas Carol. Even though it was a muppet movie, he played the part seriously and was good but not great. He has a limited range and his transformation from mean Scrooge to nice Scrooge wasn't that believable. I saw Michael Gambon in that bad HBO movie Angels In America and he played a ghost that looked like Scrooge. Ian McKellan would be great too. It would be great to see them both as Scrooge and Marley.

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The Rat Pack. What could be more fun than that? I wouldn't even want to meet any of today's actors/actresses, they're vacuous, shallow people for the most part.

feaito got it ... or to put it in layman terms, The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms.

I can't see Pesci as Scrooge, unless it was a modern day mob version. Where the Hell has Pesci been anyway? I would love to see Peter Jackson make this movie, because a real definitive version hasn't been made yet ... and his Nazgul from LOTR would be the best Ghost of Christmas Yet To Come, ever. Usually, that character has been done badly in the film adaptations.

I love this movie and first saw it ten years ago at the Brattle Theater in Cambridge, MA. Tonight's version wasn't the same I saw back then. It seemed a dumbed down version.

Lionel Barrymore played Scrooge on the radio for years, but when he was about to play him in a movie ... he fell and broke his hip while filming Saratoga. So, he recommended that Reginald Owen play Scrooge in his place, in the 1938, A Christmas Carol. That's why he was in a wheelchair in his later movies. Message was edited by: MattHelm Message was edited by: MattHelm

I've read somewhere that Sinatra had a party where Monty showed up with a male friend and Frank threw them out once they started kissing. James Jones who wrote From Here To Eternity commented that Clift was gay too. There are a lot of accounts of his homosexuality even though they hid it well in those days, like Rock Hudson and Sal Mineo.

Yes, it was the Mortal Storm. I think he banned all US movies after that.

feaito, when is Nibiru scheduled to pass this way next? It's been forever since I've been home.

I thought Jackson's Kong was a masterpiece. It has the same spirit as the original but the characters are much more developed and makes their reasons for embarking on this voyage more realistic. There are moments that are really dark, balanced with moments where the movie doesn't take itself seriously. One thing that is refreshing in this remake is the relationship between Kong and Ann Darrow ... while the original and the '76 remake play on a Beatuy & Beast love story, this one makes it more believable by making Ann Darrow a mother figure to Kong, rather than a transspecies love interest. Kong is like an immature child rather than some ferocious animal, making Kong a more sympathetic character and the ending sadder than the others.

Years ago I would have picked Hopkins, but would choose him for a Marley cameo today. Caine played him in A Muppet Christmas Carol and was good but I'd like to give someone else a shot at it. As for Hugh Grant, I see him more in the role of the nephew, Fred.

In Scrooge, the dancing on his coffin in the Thank You Very Much number, and Scrooge thinking they're prasising him, is rather strange material for a musical moment.

And Stanwyck's father in The Lady Eve, Charles Coburn, fits this list too. null

If they were to remake A Christmas Carol in the future (and you know they will) who would you like to see play Scrooge? My pick would be Michael Gambon.

What I missed not seeing this year, was the collection of Christmas silent movies they usually show every year. The Sunday before Christmas they showed The Kid and then on Christmas night they skipped the silent feature altogether. I like the movies they showed that night, but I think the In-laws theme was ill timed and irrelevant. They could have shown more Christmas movies.

Then there's Destry Rides Again ... Marlene Dietrich just can't sing, although that never stopped her. If I had kids, I'd threaten them with a Dietrich song if they didn't go to bed.

I also like the sets from the 1973 version of The Three Musketeers.

Oops, make that Norma, not Nora. I love The Women, but at the end when Norma sees her husband off screen and stretches her arms out towards him ... that is some of the hammiest acting I've ever seen from that era. Worse than Donna Reed as the spinster librarian version of Mary Hatch in It's A Wonderful Life.

Whoever told Dietrich she could sing? I can see how the studios used to try and pass off actresses as singers in roles back then, but this woman actually did albums and tours. Ditto on Garbo. The only thing I liked them in was the scene they did together in Sinatra's swimming pool, which you can read about in a book called, Mr. S.

The Charles Laughton version of The Hunchback of Notre Dame.

I left out Marcello Mastroianni and Toshiro Mifune. I would also love to see TCM acquire the Shaw Brothers 70s Kung Fu movies and do a late night series on them.

Marlon Brando eventually fit this list.

The Sound of Music and My Fair Lady ... both bore the hell out of me. Just about any movie with Marlene Dietrich ... she's the only actress (in classic movies) that can kill a movie for me, though she's well cast in Touch Of Evil.

They're all great, but my favorite is in Rope. All that innuendo flying around and the intensity ... but the hilarity of the scene where he makes fun of the women not remembering movie titles ... "Was it Something Something, or just plain Something?" is what does it for me.