"Charles Dickens's timeless classic, Scrooge. Ebenezer Scrooge (Seymour Hicks) is a miserly old money-lender who wants nothing to do with Christmas, rejecting the company and well wishes of his fellow man, on the seventh anniversary of his former business partner Jacob Marley's death, he is visited by Marley's ghost in an attempt to make him mend his ways. Over the course of the night Scrooge is visited by the ghosts of Christmas past, present and future taking him on a journey into the very spirit and magic of Christmas itself. But have the efforts of the spirits come too late to save Scrooge's soul from eternal torment? This version of Scrooge is the first sound version of Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol," filmed in England in 1935."