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* TheScrooge: This version is even more than usually portrayed. When Bob hits Scrooge with a snowball, Scrooge's hat gets trampled by a passing coach and Scrooge retains Bob's severance pay to replace it. Even more so, Bob ''owes'' a shilling to Scrooge. ''Scrooge doesn't even pay Bob enough for a hat!!''
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** As Fred is giving his uncle a Christmas greeting, Bob moves quickly and removes the just-placed coal from the fire
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* RealityEnsues: Scrooge tries to call the night watchman on Marley's ghost, to no avail.
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Directed by Edwin L. Marin, it stars Reginald Owen as Ebenezer Scrooge, Gene Lockhart as Bob Cratchit, Kathleen Lockhart as Mrs. Cratchit, Barry [=MacKay=] as Fred, and Leo G. Carroll as Marley's Ghost.
Creator/LionelBarrymore, who had played Scrooge on the radio during the 1930s, was the producers' first choice for Ebenezer Scrooge, until he broke his hip in an accident which confined him to a wheelchair, in addition to worsening arthritis. Barrymore recommended that his friend Reginald Owen take over the role of Scrooge instead.
Creator/LionelBarrymore, who had played Scrooge on the radio during the 1930s, was the producers' first choice for Ebenezer Scrooge, until he broke his hip in an accident which confined him to a wheelchair, in addition to worsening arthritis. Barrymore recommended that his friend Reginald Owen take over the role of Scrooge instead.
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Directed by Edwin L. Marin, it stars Reginald Owen as Ebenezer Scrooge, Gene Lockhart as Bob Cratchit, Kathleen Lockhart as Mrs. Cratchit, Barry [=MacKay=] as Fred, and Leo G. Carroll Creator/LeoGCarroll as Marley's Ghost.
Creator/LionelBarrymore, who had played Scrooge on the radio during the 1930s, was the producers' first choice forEbenezer Scrooge, the role, until he broke his hip in an accident which confined him to a wheelchair, in addition to worsening arthritis. Barrymore recommended that his friend Reginald Owen take over the role of Scrooge instead.
Creator/LionelBarrymore, who had played Scrooge on the radio during the 1930s, was the producers' first choice for
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* SnowballFight: Bob Cratchit gets into one with some boys and then accidentally hits Scrooge, who fires him on the spot for it and then docks him his remaining wages to pay for a new hat.
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** This adaptation has Fred not be married yet, but engaged, and the Ghost of Christmas Present warns Scrooge that their love could fade with time.
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** This adaptation has Fred not be married yet, but engaged, and the Ghost of Christmas Present warns Scrooge that they [[UnableToSupportAWife can't afford to marry]], but saying [[BlatantLies it doesn't matter]] because their love could fade with time.time. Scrooge disagrees, and in the end he makes Fred his business partner so he can earn enough to support his wife.
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* TheDreaded: Scrooge is so feared that when Fred tells Tiny Tm and his brother Peter that he's Scrooge's nephew, they run away from him.
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* TheDreaded: Scrooge is so feared that when Fred tells Tiny Tm Tim and his brother Peter that he's Scrooge's nephew, they run away from him.
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* TheDreaded: Scrooge is so feared that when Fred tells some children he's Scrooge's nephew they run away from him.
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* TheDreaded: Scrooge is so feared that when Fred tells some children Tiny Tm and his brother Peter that he's Scrooge's nephew nephew, they run away from him.
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* SandInMyEyes: Scrooge repeatedly insists that "the cold" is to blame for his quivering lip and the tears in his eyes when revisiting his old school
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* SandInMyEyes: Scrooge repeatedly insists that "the cold" is to blame for his quivering lip and the tears in his eyes when revisiting his old schoolschool.
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* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Martha knows something's wrong with Bob when he describes Scrooge as giving him the day off quite jovially.
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* SandInMyEyes: Scrooge repeatedly insists that "the cold" is to blame for his quivering lip and the tears in his eyes when revisiting his old school
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* InformedPoverty: The "poor as churchmice" Cratchits live in a house that actually looks like a pretty nice, middle-class home.
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* InformedPoverty: The "poor as churchmice" Cratchits live in a house that actually looks like a pretty nice, middle-class home. Then again, considering the one of the kids guessed that Christmas dinner was going to be tripe, it likely costs a fortune in rent.
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* LighterAndSofter: This adaptation leaves out Scrooge's StartOfDarkness and his breakup with Belle. Ignorance and Want are also adapted out.
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* LighterAndSofter: This adaptation leaves out Scrooge's StartOfDarkness and his breakup with Belle. Ignorance and Want are also adapted out. He's also quite happy throughout most of the "Present" sequence, even declaring, "I LOVE Christmas!"
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* AdaptationalAttractiveness: The Ghost of Christmas Past is portrayed as a young woman in the film, as opposed to the childlike being in the original novel.
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* DisasterDominoes: Bob Cratchit knocks Scrooge's hat off with a snowball, and as the latter starts to yell at him the hat is run over by a horse and cart. This leads to Bob getting fired and charged for damages to the hat.
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* GeorgeJetsonJobSecurity: Bob Cratchit knocks Scrooge's hat off with a snowball, and as the latter starts to yell at him when his hat is run over by a horse and carriage. This leads to Bob getting fired and charged for damages to the hat.
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''A Christmas Carol'' is a 1938 film adaptation of [[Literature/AChristmasCarol the novel of the same name]].
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''A Christmas Carol'' is a 1938 film adaptation of [[Literature/AChristmasCarol the novel of the same name]].name]], and the first U.S. sound version of the film.
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Creator/LionelBarrymore, who had played Scrooge on the radio during the 1930s, was the producers' first choice for Ebenezer Scrooge, until he broke his hip in an accident which confined him to a wheelchair, in addition to worsening arthritis. Barrymore recommended that his friend Reginald Owen take over the role of Scrooge instead.
