A Christmas Carol

On Christmas Eve in Victorian-era London, greedy commodities trader and finance company owner Ebenezer Scrooge (George C. Scott) is visited by the ghost of his seven year dead former business partner Jacob Marley, who warns him to repent his miserly ways, lest he be condemned to the same afterlife as that of Marley's. The three spirits — the Ghost of Christmas Past (Angela Pleasence), the Ghost of Christmas Present (Edward Woodward), and the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come (Frank Finlay) — take Scrooge back in time to his lonely childhood, show him the joys of the holiday, and reveal a bleak future where he is mourned by those around him. Recognizing the repercussions of his heartlessness, Scrooge vows to change his ways and begs to be spared as the ghost's kind hand trembles.