Mervyn Johns

Based on Charles Dickens' novella, A Christmas Carol is a 1951 Christmas fantasy-drama film starring Alastair Sim as Ebenezer Scrooge, a bitter old miser who, on Christmas Eve, is visited by three ghosts determined to show him the error of his ways in time for Christmas.

After an unusual meteor shower leaves most of the human population blind, a merchant navy officer must find a way to conquer tall, aggressive plants which are feeding on people and animals.

Following his Oscar-winning musical Moulin Rogue, the great John Huston directed this adaptation of the Herman Melville classic.