festive cheer: the ultimate Christmas Eve movie(s)

including one I'd completely forgotten about...

Charles Dickens’s 1843 novella A Christmas Carol must surely be among the literary works that have been adapted for film and TV most frequently. One goofily charming version, which I had forgotten about until vivid childhood memories of it were reawakened while assembling this project, is Mister Magoo’s Christmas Carol. It’s so odd that I can’t believe …