Scrooge (1970 film) Quotes

Scrooge (1970 film) is a television show that was first aired in 1970 . Scrooge ended its run in 1970.

It features Robert H. Solo as producer, Leslie Bricusse in charge of musical score, and Oswald Morris as head of cinematography.

Scrooge (1970 film) is recorded in English and originally aired in United Kingdom. Each episode of Scrooge (1970 film) is 113 minutes long. Scrooge (1970 film) is distributed by National General Pictures.

The cast includes: Albert Finney as Ebenezer Scrooge, David Collings as Bob Cratchit, Richard Beaumont as Tiny Tim, Anton Rodgers as Tom Jenkins, and Frances Cuka as Mrs. Cratchit.

Scrooge (1970 film) Quotes

David Collings as Bob Cratchit

• (David Collings) "Well, my loves, which one do you like best, eh?"
• (Kathy Cratchit) "I like the dolly in the corner."
• (Richard Beaumont) "I like all of them."
• (David Collings) "Good boy? And why not one in particular?"
• (Richard Beaumont) "Well -- you said I can't have none of them, so I might as well like them all."

Albert Finney as Ebenezer Scrooge

• (1st Portly Gentleman) "Mr. Scrooge, sir, we find it more than usually desirable than we make some slight provision for the poor and destitute."
• (Albert Finney) "Excellent. Than I suggest you do so."
• (2nd Portly Gentleman) "What may we put down for you, sir?"
• (Albert Finney) "Nothing, sir."
• (1st Portly Gentleman) "Ah, you wish to remain anonymous."
• (Albert Finney) "I wish to be left alone, sir. That is what I wish. I don't make myself merry at Christmas and I cannot afford to make idle people merry. I have been forced to support the establishments I have mentioned through taxation and God knows they cost more than they're worth. Those who are badly off must go there."
• (2nd Portly Gentleman) "Many would rather die than go there."
• (Albert Finney) "If they'd rather die, then they had better do it and decrease the surplus population, Good night, gentlemen."
• (Albert Finney) "Humbug."

• (Nephew Fred) "A merry Christmas, Uncle Ebenezer. God save you."
• (Albert Finney) "God save me from Christmas. It's another humbug."
• (Nephew Fred) "Christmas a humbug? Come, now. I'm sure you don't mean that."
• (Albert Finney) "And I'm sure that I do mean that. Merry Christmas, indeed. What reason have you got to be merry? You're poor enough."
• (Nephew Fred) "What reason have you got to be miserable? You're rich enough."
• (Albert Finney) "There is no such thing as rich enough, only poor enough."
• (Nephew Fred) "Don't be so dismal, Uncle Ebenezer."
• (Albert Finney) "What else can I be when I live in a world full of fools babbling "Merry Christmas" at one another? What's Christmas but a time for finding yourself a year older and not a day richer? There's nothing merry in that. If I could work my will, nephew, every idiot who goes about with "Merry Christmas" on his lips should be boiled with his own pudding and buried with a stake of holly through his heart."

• (Albert Finney) "I want to look in the window."
• (Ghost of Christmas Present) "It will cost you nothing, which I'm sure is good news for you."
• (Albert Finney) "Will they be able to see me?"
• (Ghost of Christmas Present) "No, which I'm sure is good news for them."

• (Albert Finney) "Fifteen shillings a week, a wife and five children -- and he still talks of a Merry Christmas."

• (Albert Finney) "What a marvelous man --"
• (Ghost of Christmas Past) "What's so marevlous? He's merely spent a few pounds of your mortal money. Three or four, perhaps. What is that to be deserving of so much praise?"
• (Albert Finney) "You don't understand. He had the power to make us happy or unhappy, to make our work a pleasure or a burden. It's nothing to do with money."

• (Albert Finney) "And be good enough to leave me alone during business hours."
• (Nephew Fred) "Seven o'clock on Christmas Eve? That's not business hours, that's drudgery for the sake of it, and an insult to all men of goodwill."
• (David Collings) "Here, here."
• (Nephew Fred) "Thank you, Bob Cratchit."
• (Albert Finney) "Another word from you, Cratchit, and you will celebrate Christmas by losing your position."
• (Albert Finney) "As for you, nephew, if you were in my will, I'd disinherit you."

• (Albert Finney) "What business brings you here?"
• (Ghost of Christmas Past) "Your welfare."
• (Albert Finney) "To be wakened by a ghost at one o'clock in the morning is hardly conducive to my welfare."
• (Ghost of Christmas Past) "Your redemption, then."

• (Tom - Friend of Harry's) "Harry, I've visited you every Christmas for the past five years, and to this day I can never understand this extraordinary ritual of toasting the health of your old uncle Ebenezer. I mean, everyone knows he's the most miserable old skinflint that ever walked God's earth."
• (Albert Finney) "Who's he?"
• (Ghost of Christmas Present) "Oh -- just a friend."
• (Nephew Fred) "My dear Tom, it's very simple. He is indeed a despicable old miser, worse than you could ever possibly imagine."
• (Albert Finney) "You find this amusing?"
• (Ghost of Christmas Present) "Believe it or not, he likes you."
• (Nephew Fred) "See, I look at it this way: If I can wish a Merry Christmas to him, who is beyond dispute the most obnoxious and parsimonious of all living creatures, then I know in my heart that I am truly a man of goodwill."
• (Albert Finney) "Scoundrel."
• (Ghost of Christmas Present) "Wait. There's more to come."
• (Nephew Fred) "And besides -- I like old Scrooge."
• (Ghost of Christmas Present) "What did I tell you?"

• (Albert Finney) "I hate life."
• (Ghost of Christmas Present) "Nonsense, man. Why?"
• (Albert Finney) "Because life hates me, that's why."
• (Ghost of Christmas Present) "Scrooge, you're an even bigger fool than I took you for."

• (Albert Finney) "Why do you walk the earth? Why'd you come to persecute me? And what is that great chain you wear?"
• (Jacob Marley's Ghost) "I wear the chain I forged in life. I made it, link by link and yard by yard, while on Earth, and now I will never be rid of it, any more than you will ever be rid of yours."
• (Albert Finney) "Mine?"
• (Jacob Marley's Ghost) "It was as heavy and long as this seven Christmases ago. It's a terrible, ponderous chain you are making, Scrooge."
• (Albert Finney) "Tell me more, Marley, but speak comforts to me."
• (Jacob Marley's Ghost) "I have none to give."
• (Albert Finney) "None?"
• (Jacob Marley's Ghost) "Comfort comes from other sources, Ebenezer Scrooge, and is given by other ministers than I to other kinds of men than you. When I lived, my spirit, like yours, never walked beyond the narrow limits of our counting house."
• (Albert Finney) "But you were always a good man of business, Jacob."
• (Jacob Marley's Ghost) "Mankind should be our business, Ebenezer, but we seldom attend to it -- as you shall see."

• (Jacob Marley's Ghost) "Ah. So there you are."
• (Albert Finney) "Marley. Where am I?"
• (Jacob Marley's Ghost) "I should have thought it was obvious. I heard you were coming down today, so I thought I'd come to greet you, show you to your quarters. Nobody else wanted to."
• (Albert Finney) "That's -- that's very civil of you, Marley. I -- I -- I -- I am dead, aren't I?"
• (Jacob Marley's Ghost) "As a coffin nail."
• (Albert Finney) "I -- I had rather hoped I'd end up in Heaven."
• (Jacob Marley's Ghost) "Did you, indeed? You may find your office here rather small, but not, I trust, unfamiliar."
• (Albert Finney) "Office?"
• (Jacob Marley's Ghost) "Your activities in life were so pleasing to Lucifer that he has appointed you to be his personal clerk. A singular honor. You will be to him, so to speak, what Bob Cratchit was to you."
• (Albert Finney) "That's not fair. It's -- it's --"
• (Jacob Marley's Ghost) "Diabolical. I must confess, I find it not altogether unamusing."

• (Ghost of Christmas Present) "How many of my brothers have you rejected in your miserable lifetime."
• (Albert Finney) "I have never met any of your brothers, sir."
• (Ghost of Christmas Present) "You have never looked for them."

• (Jacob Marley's Ghost) "You will be visited by three ghosts."
• (Albert Finney) "I -- I think I'd rather not."

• (Albert Finney) "I will start anew / I will make amends / and I will make quite certain / that the story ends / on a note of hope / on a strong amen / and I'll thank the world / and remember when / I was able to begin again."

• (Albert Finney) "You still don't recognise me, do you Cratchit?"
• (David Collings) "Yes. No. Er -- Father Christmas?"
• (Albert Finney) "Heh heh."
• (Frances Cuka) "Mr. Scrooge? He's gone mad."
• (David Collings) "No, no, my dear, I'm sure there's an explanation."
• (Albert Finney) "I want to see you in my office on Monday morning, when I will double your wages."
• (David Collings) "He has gone mad."

• (Albert Finney) "Fire and damnation. Don't they know that I'm trying to run a business here?"
• (Nephew Fred) "Uncle Ebenezer. I cannot tell you what a joy it is to see your happy, smiling face."
• (Albert Finney) "Oh -- it's you."

• (Albert Finney) "How shall I ever understand this world? There is nothing on which it is so hard as poverty, and yet, there is nothing it condemns with such severity as the pursuit of wealth."

Anton Rodgers as Tom Jenkins

• (Anton Rodgers) "Hot broth, Mr. Scrooge. A small token of Christmas esteem, with the compliments of Tom Jenkins."
• (Albert Finney) "No."
• (Anton Rodgers) "And there'll be a free can of broth, sir, every night for the coming year in gratitude for your infinite kindness -- in giving me another two weeks to pay."
• (Albert Finney) "One week."
• (Anton Rodgers) "Ten days?"
• (Albert Finney) "One week."
• (Anton Rodgers) "One week."
• (Albert Finney) "And put a lid on that stuff, I'll take it home."

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