christmas carol (M38)

1939 version. leo g. caroll plays marley's ghost and gene lockhart plays cratchet. scrooge the tightwad who reacts with bah, humbug to christmas cheer fires his clerk on xmas eve because he gets hit in the head by a snowball thrown by the clerk. but he repents at night after he sees marley's ghost (his ex partner, also a tightwad, dead seven years) and then the ghosts of xmas past (when he was a happy child) xmas present, the cratchets making the most of xmas despite the firing and the misfortune of their son tiny tim's handicap. and christmas future where ebenezer scrooge himself is dead and unmourned and tiny tim is dead and very mourned. he repents and learns to spend money and love xmas.