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Rathbone DID play the role in an early, 1960s television broadcast. It was a musical - and not the same one Albert Finney did in the film. I only wonder if Thesiger could handle the transformation into a good guy at the end. He LOVED perverse villainy.
How about Robert Downey Jr. or Anthony Hopkins?
Rathbone did a musical, made for TV version in the early '60s. I've only seen photographs, but he sure LOOKED the part.
The Thesiger Scrooge would have a rewritten ending where Scrooge remains the same because Death comes in the end anyway and Marley gets to travel no matter the length of his chain -- all very dark, Gothic, nihilistic, ethically anarchic. The boy in the street at morning would be a telegraph errand boy and would join him in dining on the turkey.
Downey possibly but that Chaplin-Holmes English accent would have to change from a whisper. Hopkins is too round for my liking as a Scrooge but no doubt would play the Hell out of the part.
I would love to see and hear Rathbone as a musical Scrooge! I dislike the Finney version, it disgusts me.
The Finney version was pretty lame. I had the soundtrack on LP. The critics roasted it.
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Oct 06, 2012 10:02AM
Rathbone DID play the role in an early, 1960s television broadcast. It was a musical - and not the same one Albert Finney did in the film. I only wonder if Thesiger could handle the transformation into a good guy at the end. He LOVED perverse villainy.
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How about Robert Downey Jr. or Anthony Hopkins?
Rathbone did a musical, made for TV version in the early '60s. I've only seen photographs, but he sure LOOKED the part.
The Thesiger Scrooge would have a rewritten ending where Scrooge remains the same because Death comes in the end anyway and Marley gets to travel no matter the length of his chain -- all very dark, Gothic, nihilistic, ethically anarchic. The boy in the street at morning would be a telegraph errand boy and would join him in dining on the turkey.Downey possibly but that Chaplin-Holmes English accent would have to change from a whisper. Hopkins is too round for my liking as a Scrooge but no doubt would play the Hell out of the part.
I would love to see and hear Rathbone as a musical Scrooge! I dislike the Finney version, it disgusts me.
The Finney version was pretty lame. I had the soundtrack on LP. The critics roasted it.
