An unusually faithful adaptation of Charles Dickens's Victorian-era Christmas classic, it stars Alastair Sim as Ebenezer Scrooge in a definitive performance. The large supporting cast includes a lot of familiar faces— Michael Hordern, Hermione Baddeley, Mervyn Johns, and Patrick Macnee. Produced and directed by Brian Desmond Hurst from a screenplay by Noel Langley, the film’s makers sought to recreate the…