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A mixed bag as variations on A Christmas Carol go, this 1970 British musical tells the usual story of Scrooge (Albert Finney) and his spirits on Christmas Eve, although the whole thing is set to music by Leslie Bricusse. Except for Finney's feisty and involved performance, however, there isn't much to recommend this. The songs, which absorb so much of the evolving story line and emotions, ...

Manufacturer: Paramount Home Entertainment
Starring: Albert Finney, Alec Guinness, Edith Evans, Kenneth More, Laurence Naismith
Directed By: Ronald Neame

Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Starring: Audrey Hepburn, Peter Finch, Edith Evans, Peggy Ashcroft, Dean Jagger
Directed By: Fred Zinnemann

You know the story: Cinderella rides in a magical pumpkin to the ball, enchants the prince and flees at midnight. He finds her slipper and tracks her down, and they live happily ever after. But wait! In The Slipper and the Rose, it turns out there's more to the life of a prince than being charming. The king prefers to choose the prince's wife, one of proper social station who would provide ...

Manufacturer: Uca
Starring: Sherrie Hewson, John Turner, Rosalind Ayres, Keith Skinner, Polly Williams
Directed By: Bryan Forbes

Winner of four Academy Awards including best picture, director, screenplay, and music, this 1963 adaptation of Henry Fielding's classic novel is a rousing, bawdy comedy about a young man's ribald adventures in 18th-century England. Albert Finney is splendidly hilarious in the title role of a charming womanizer who was discovered as an abandoned infant in the bed of Squire Allworthy, a wealthy ...

Manufacturer: MGM Entertainment
Starring: Albert Finney, Susannah York, Hugh Griffith, Edith Evans, Joan Greenwood
Directed By: Tony Richardson

If you're looking for the definitive example of dry wit, look no further than this 1952 version of The Importance of Being Earnest. Of course, it helps to have Oscar Wilde's beloved play as source material, but this exquisite adaptation has a charmed life of its own, with a perfectly matched director and a once-in-a-lifetime cast. Mix these ingredients with Wilde's inimitable repartee, and ...

Manufacturer: ITV DVD
Starring: Michael Redgrave, Richard Wattis, Michael Denison, Walter Hudd, Edith Evans
Directed By: Anthony Asquith

Manufacturer: MGM
Starring: Richard Burton, Claire Bloom, Mary Ure, Edith Evans, Gary Raymond
Directed By: Tony Richardson

If you're looking for the definitive example of dry wit, look no further than this 1952 version of The Importance of Being Earnest. Of course, it helps to have Oscar Wilde's beloved play as source material, but this exquisite adaptation has a charmed life of its own, with a perfectly matched director and a once-in-a-lifetime cast. Mix these ingredients with Wilde's inimitable repartee, and ...

Manufacturer: ITV DVD
Starring: Michael Redgrave, Richard Wattis, Michael Denison, Walter Hudd, Edith Evans
Directed By: Anthony Asquith

Manufacturer: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Starring: Bing Crosby, Madge Evans, Edith Fellows, Donald Meek
Directed By: Norman McLeod

A mixed bag as variations on A Christmas Carol go, this 1970 British musical tells the usual story of Scrooge (Albert Finney) and his spirits on Christmas Eve, although the whole thing is set to music by Leslie Bricusse. Except for Finney's feisty and involved performance, however, there isn't much to recommend this. The songs, which absorb so much of the evolving story line and emotions, ...

Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Starring: Albert Finney, Alec Guinness, Edith Evans, Kenneth More, Laurence Naismith
Directed By: Ronald Neame

If you're looking for the definitive example of dry wit, look no further than this 1952 version of The Importance of Being Earnest. Of course, it helps to have Oscar Wilde's beloved play as source material, but this exquisite adaptation has a charmed life of its own, with a perfectly matched director and a once-in-a-lifetime cast. Mix these ingredients with Wilde's inimitable repartee, and ...

Manufacturer: Criterion
Starring: Michael Redgrave, Richard Wattis, Michael Denison, Walter Hudd, Edith Evans
Directed By: Anthony Asquith