It’s not Christmas without the story of Ebenezer Scrooge and his visit with three ghosts.  There have been numerous film versions of this story.  The one below comes to us from 1938 and stars Reginald Owen in the role of Scrooge.

This version is surprisingly good, considering that it was apparently shot in a hurry.  (The movie hit theaters just a few weeks after filming stopped.)  Originally, Lionel Barrymore was going to play Scrooge but he had to drop out due to ill-health.  Reginald Owen stepped in and gave a good performance as the famous miser.

(Barrymore himself would more or less play Scrooge a little less than ten years later in Frank Capra’s It’s A Wonderful Life.)