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  2. Maria Tatham says:

    I could watch it a dozen times in a dozen versions (of the original story, that is, not retellings), for the sheer fascination of the directors’ and actors’ takes on its essentials. It’s a Wonderful Life and the Scrooge adaptations have become synonymous with Christmas in our film culture. I never thought of Scrooge as being avant garde, though–that’s interesting. Audiences loved to hear him read it aloud, they say, which must have been amazing.
     

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