this fabulous movie is close to the qualities of scrooge, just without ghosts or it's a wonderful life. main difference should be it is a movie with a real historic background. each year i have to read the response on Virginia O'Hanlans letter, and each year I start getting in a Christmas mood. The movie is doing the same as only I'ts a wonderful life and several movies of Scrooge are able to. Christmas carol and, worth to mention, shows Charles Bronson as an actor for a hero without violence or strength, but therefore more charming. i am sorry that this movie isn't available on DVD or shown more often in Christmas time in Germany- it hasn't been broad casted for years.