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Title: Very disappointing!
Review: First issue is, the description didn't say it was a musical. I love musicals, but this was very bad, singing was beautiful, but it took away from the storyline and left little time to tell the story in one hour. In the interest of being concise, the singing should have been eliminated because so much of the Christmas Carol scenes, which to me were essential to really understand the transformation of Scrooge, were gone. Basil Rathbone was a great actor and one of my favorites, but his talent was wasted here, anyone could have done his Marley. Scrooge was OK, but at times when he would give that crazy grin confused me and seemed inappropriate. I fast forwarded through the singing of Belle and Ebenezer and decided this would be the only time I watched this version of one of my favorite Christmas stories.
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