Commentary: How ‘A Christmas Carol’ reminds us there is always time to start over
I spent my teens in a rural area of upstate New York in the 1970s. We watched a lot of PBS. At Christmastime, the local PBS station ran the 1951 version of “A Christmas Carol” starring Alistair Sim over and over again. I watched it every time.
Originally released as “Scrooge,” the film was directed by Brian Desmond-Hurst and written by Noel Langley. My family watched it so many times that we’d notice every detail. How Scrooge ignores the blind man with his dog in the opening and pets the
