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Dec 25: A Christmas Carol (1951) dir. Brian Desmond-Hurst

This is the definitive version of course - featuring Alastair Sim as Scrooge and now over 70 years old.It is also a commentary on the wealthy and inequality, and connects with Dickens' own experiences of poverty and debt. Filmed in London. Some typical 'Victorian' scenes, plus a bit of travelling to other parts of Scrooge's life.

It is always shown today on some channel or other.

Here's the trailer, although I'm sure everyone is familiar with the story.


The 1984 version was filmed in Shrewsbury:

Films I watched today - quite a few to be honest.

The BBC had a bit of an Aardman marathon in the morning. Three films with Wallace and Gromit to begin with:

A Close Shave (1995) dir. Nick Park

The Wrong Trousers (1993) dir. Nick Park

A Matter of Loaf and Death (2008) dir. Nick Park

Farmageddon (2019) dir. Will Becher and Richard Phelan

The second full-length Shaun the Sheep movie, and a really fun wonderfully-detailed film. It has a great pace to it, and some very funny scenes, particularly when the alien gets a massive sugar rush in the shop.

As always, there was a screening of 'The Great Escape', which I shall mention in a later blog post. I didn't watch it on this occasion.

The Deadly Mantis (1957) dir. Nathan Juran

Another in a long list of 1950s films featuring mutated monsters or other peril. This time it's a giant mantis which was frozen in the Arctic ice and released when there was activity due to American activity preparing defence lines during the Cold War and Atomic era.

Here's a map of the DEW line and other lines.


The film also features some mild sexism and no real peril at all...

One scene features the giant insect harrassing an Inuit settlement with them all getting into kayaks, and the huskies running away.

Here's the trailer for the film: 

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