Reply #26: George C. Scott is the best Scrooge, IMHO, and that version has the TINIEST of Tims.

[tom_paine]

I always thought of that, my favorite of all the adaptions (and not just because it has stuff like the Ignorance and Want scene that the others don't have), the only way you could get a TINIER TIm would to be to put a 19th Century cockney hat on a zygote!

Seriously, though, the Scott adaption is by far the closest to the book itself of all of them, and that alone makes it #1 in my book. Add the amazing cast involved and it stands, IMHO, head and shoulders above the rest...even the sainted Alistair Sims version.