Arguably the best-loved and best-remembered film adaptation of Dickens' famous festive tale, this beautifully rendered, well-directed chronicle of the haunting of the miser Ebenezer Scrooge perfectly captures the story's mixture of fear, regret and redemption. It also features a career-defining performance from the scintillatingly brilliant Alastair Sim, whose nasty but eventually nice Scrooge has never been bettered.