> ...There, I'm back. Thanks for waiting. Alistair
Sim played Scrooge in a 1951,
black-and-white version of the movie, with a
cast that is absolutely unrecognizable but
brilliant, and his portrayal of Scrooge is
perhaps not the absolute best Scrooge ever,
but it is pure genius. (At least the IMDB *says*
it's from 1951, from the cinematography,
dialogue and mood of the whole film I
would've placed it in the mid-to-late '30s or
early '40s.)

I looked up Alistair Sim on IMDb the other day,
and apparently he did the Scrooge thing
*twice*. First, in the live-action film you're
referring to, but there was also an animated
version from nineteen-seventy-something
where Sim did the voice of Scrooge.