History YMMV / Scrooge1951

** Ignorance and Want are described in the book as very creepy looking or demonic. A couple adaptations are good at presenting this, but in this version, they just look like a couple of regular kids [[CreatorsApathy looking quite bored, and just waiting for the scene to wrap.]]

** Ignorance and Want are described in the book as very creepy looking or demonic. A couple adaptations are good at presenting this, but in this version, they just look like a couple of regular kids [[BadBadActing looking quite bored, and just waiting for the scene to wrap.]]

* NightmareFuel:
** The wandering spirits are horrifying. Outside Scrooge's window, seen [[UncannyValley as from an even greater distance]], they fill the night air, flailing their arms in time to a wailing, howling lament.
** As seen in [[{{Flashback}} Christmas Past's tenure]], Marley' death scene. To a [[ScareChord solemn orchestral jolt]], Scrooge, from the bottom of the stairs, sees the undertaker. Scrooge then visits Marley's bedside, to find him barely able to speak.
-->'''Marley:''' ...While... there's still time...
-->'''Scrooge:''' Time... time for ''what''?
-->'''Marley:''' We... we were wrong...
-->'''Scrooge:''' Wrong? Well, [[ComicallyMissingThePoint we can't be right all the time. Nobody's perfect]]. We've been no worse than the next man. Or better, if it comes to that. You mustn't reproach yourself, Jacob.
-->'''Marley:''' ...We were wrong... Save.. yourself...
-->'''Scrooge:''' Save myself? Save myself from ''[[NothingIsScarier what]]''?
** Marley's eyes then fall closed. Scrooge lift's Marley's hand - which falls limp.
** After the Spirit of Christmas Present leaves, Scrooge runs towards the camera and stops cold when the Spirit of Christmas Yet to Come's hand appears in the foreground, blurred to the audience with nothing else of it visible.
** The toys that Tiny Tim looks at in the shop window are absolutely horrifying, especially the smiling doll that seems to laugh at Tim after the toy boat he longed for is sold. (It seems to cheer Tim up, though. These toys are period appropriate, and on the whole Victorian kids would have expected and enjoyed them.)

** The wandering spirits are horrifying.

* CantUnHearIt: Alistair Sim is one of the most iconic Scrooges in history. Truth be told, anyone who grow up with this film as THE ''Christmas Carol'' adaptation will be hard-pressed to read Dickens' words without hearing all the actors' voices.

* RetroactiveRecognition: The young Jacob Marley is played by Creator/PatrickMacnee, who would later reach worldwide fame in ''Series/TheAvengers1960s''.

** The toys that Tiny Tim looks at in the shop window are absolutely horrifying, especially the smiling doll that seems to laugh at Tim after the toy boat he longed for is sold.

* MagnificentBastard:
** Scrooge and Marley offer to bail the Mercantile Association out of the debt caused by Jorkin's embezzlement, provided they'll be allowed to buy up 51% of the total stock. They'll only save the company if they can ''become'' the company, and both look really pleased about it.
** Jorkin himself, a charming, jovial unrepentant embezzler who groomed Scrooge and Marley, playing on their greed and misanthropy, to become his [[BastardUnderstudy Bastard Understudies]].

** The toys that Tiny Tim looks at in the shop window are absolutely horrifying, especially the smiling doll.

* CantUnhearIt: Alistair Sim is one of the most iconic Scrooges in history. Truth be told, anyone who grow up with this film as THE ''Christmas Carol'' adaptation will be hard-pressed to read Dickens' words without hearing all the actors' voices.

* RetroactiveRecognition: The young Jacob Marley is played by Creator/PatrickMacnee, who would later reach worldwide fame in ''Series/TheAvengers''.

* TheScrappy: This adaptation has been noted to have one of the most annoying Tiny Tims in history. [[AlasPoorScrappy That being said, Christmas Yet To Come is still incredibly sad]].

* OneSceneWonder: There's a maid that takes Scrooge's coat when he arrives at Fred's house and happily nods for him to go into the party. Although a small role, she seemed to leave a strong lasting impression on viewers, especially men who were taken by her angelic beauty and warm smile. There were lengthy blog posts and discussions about who the actress was and even rumors she was a young uncredited Creator/AudreyHepburn due to their resemblance. She was eventually found out [[http://dickensblog.typepad.com/dickensblog/2013/05/meet-the-maid-an-interview-with-theresa-derrington-cozens-hardy.html here]], identified as Theresa Derrington.

* OneSceneWonder: There's a maid that takes Scrooge's coat when he arrives at Fred's house and happily nods for him to go into the party. There were lengthy blog posts and discussions about who the actress was, due to her angelic beauty and resemblance to Creator/AudreyHepburn. She was eventually found out [[http://dickensblog.typepad.com/dickensblog/2013/05/meet-the-maid-an-interview-with-theresa-derrington-cozens-hardy.html here]], identified as Theresa Derrington.

* OneSceneWonder: To an absurd degree. There's a maid that takes Scrooge's coat when he arrives at Fred's house and happily nods for him to go into the party. There were lengthy blog posts and discussions about who the actress was, due to her angelic beauty and resemblance to Creator/AudreyHepburn. She was eventually found out [[http://dickensblog.typepad.com/dickensblog/2013/05/meet-the-maid-an-interview-with-theresa-derrington-cozens-hardy.html here]], identified as Theresa Derrington.

* OneSceneWonder: To an absurd degree. There's a maid that takes Scrooge's coat when he arrives at Fred's house and happily nods for him to go into the party. There were lengthy blog posts and discussions about who the actress was, due to her angelic beauty and resemblance to and Creator/AudreyHepburn. She was eventually found out [[http://dickensblog.typepad.com/dickensblog/2013/05/meet-the-maid-an-interview-with-theresa-derrington-cozens-hardy.html here]], identified as Theresa Derrington.

* OneSceneWonder: To an absurd degree. There's a maid that takes Scrooge's coat when he arrives at Fred's house and happily nods for him to go into the party. There were lengthy blog posts and discussions about who the actress was, due to her angelic beauty abd resemblance to and Creator/AudreyHepburn. She was eventually found out [[http://dickensblog.typepad.com/dickensblog/2013/05/meet-the-maid-an-interview-with-theresa-derrington-cozens-hardy.html here]], identified as Theresa Derrington.

* OneSceneWonder: To an absurd degree. There's a maid that takes Scrooge's coat when he arrives at Fred's house and happily nods for him to go into the party. There were lengthy blog posts and discussions about who the actress was, due to her resemblance to Creator/AudreyHepburn. She was eventually found out [[http://dickensblog.typepad.com/dickensblog/2013/05/meet-the-maid-an-interview-with-theresa-derrington-cozens-hardy.html here]], identified as Theresa Derrington.

* MostAnnoyingSound: Mrs Dilber's screams of terror when she believes Scrooge has gone insane. Yes, its supposed to drive home the fact that no one could believe such a miser could have such a miraculous change of heart, but did she really need to scream for as long and as loud as that?

* VindicatedByCable / VindicatedByHistory: While a hit in the UK, it performed poorly in the US. After repeat broadcasts on US television from the 1950s onward, it's considered one of the best adaptations of ''A Christmas Carol'' ever made.

* CantUnhearIt: Alistair Sim is one of the most iconic Scrooges in history.

** The toys that Tiny Tim looks at in the shop window are absolutely horrifying.

* VindicatedByCable/VindicatedByHistory: While a hit in the UK, it performed poorly in the US. After repeat broadcasts on US television from the 1950s onward, it's considered one of the best adaptations of ''A Christmas Carol'' ever made.