Paul Davis On Crime: 1984 TV film A Christmas Carol

Sunday, December 20, 2015

Watch George C. Scott's Powerful Performance As Scrooge In 'A Christmas Carol'

The late, great actor George C. Scott is best known for his powerful performance as General Patton, but I believe he gave an equally powerful performance as Scrooge in the fine 1984 TV adaptation of Charles Dicken's A Christmas Carol.

This film is one of a half-dozen holiday films I try to watch each Christmas season.

Now thanks to youtube.com you can watch the full film via the below link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvdMjXhPGd0

As History.com notes, Charles Dicken's A Christmas Carol was published on this day in 1843.

You can read about Charles Dicken's via the below link:

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/a-christmas-carol-is-published?cmpid=email-hist-tdih-2015-1217-12172015&om_rid=de5e4076c942a595dbda53f758321d197499484f6d117f61b6ac5c08e0d6f0aa&om_mid=8037410&kx_EmailCampaignID=1275&kx_EmailCampaignName=email-hist-tdih-2015-1217-12172015&kx_EmailRecipientID=de5e4076c942a595dbda53f758321d197499484f6d117f61b6ac5c08e0d6f0aa

My favorite film adaptation of A Christmas Carol is the 1984 TV film with the late, great actor George C. Scott as Scrooge. I try to watch the film every Christmas season.

You can read about the film via an earlier post:

http://www.pauldavisoncrime.com/2014/12/a-look-back-at-christmas-carol-with.html

You can also read 10 things you may not know about A Christmas Carol via another earlier post:

http://www.pauldavisoncrime.com/2014/12/10-things-you-might-not-know-about.html

Paul Davis

Paul Davis is a writer who covers crime. He has written extensively about organized crime, cybercrime, street crime, white collar crime, crime fiction, crime prevention, the military, espionage and terrorism. His 'Crime Beat' column, which covers crime news, crime issues and crime prevention in South Philadelphia, appears weekly in the South Philly Review, and his 'On Crime' column, which covers crime in the Greater Philadelphia region, appears weekly at Philly Daily and Broad and Liberty. He is also a longtime contributor to Counterterrorism magazine and writes their online 'Threatcon' column, which covers crime, espionage and terrorism. Paul Davis' crime fiction appears in American Crime Magazine. His work has also appeared in the Washington Times, the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Philadelphia Daily News, Philadelphia Weekly and other publications. As a writer, he has attended police academy training, gone out on patrol with police officers, accompanied detectives as they worked cases, accompanied narcotics officers on drug raids, observed criminal court proceedings, visited jails and prisons, and covered street riots, mob wars and murder investigations. He has interviewed police commissioners and chiefs, FBI, DEA, HSI and other federal special agents, prosecutors, judges, public officials, WWII UDT frogmen, Navy SEALs, Army Delta operators, Israeli commandos, military intelligence officers, Scotland Yard detectives, CIA officers, former KGB officers, film and TV actors, film writers, directors and producers, journalists, novelists and true crime authors, gamblers, outlaw bikers, and Cosa Nostra organized crime bosses. Paul Davis has been a student of crime since he was a 12-year-old aspiring writer growing up in South Philadelphia. He enlisted in the U.S. Navy when he was 17 in 1970. He served aboard the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Kitty Hawk during the Vietnam War and he later served two years aboard the Navy harbor tugboat U.S.S. Saugus at the U.S. floating nuclear submarine base at Holy Loch, Scotland. He went on to become the civilian administrative officer of a Defense Department command in Philadelphia, where he oversaw security, safety and other programs for the command's military and civilian employees, and served as an investigating officer, while working part-time as a newspaper crime reporter and columnist. He retired in 2007 after more than 37 Navy/DOD years of service and became a full-time writer. From 1991 to 2005 he was a producer and on-air host of "Inside Government," a public affairs interview radio program that aired on Sunday mornings on WPEN AM and WMGK FM in the Philadelphia area. You can read Paul Davis' crime columns, crime fiction, book reviews and news and feature articles on this website. You can read his full bio by clicking on the above photo (by Brittany Davis-Pearson). And you can contact Paul Davis at pauldavisoncrime@aol.com.

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Sunday, December 20, 2015

Watch George C. Scott's Powerful Performance As Scrooge In 'A Christmas Carol'

Thursday, December 17, 2015

On This Day In History: Charles Dicken's 'A Christmas Carol' Was Published In 1843

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