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    Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol Director: Abe Levitow

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    • DVD Release Date: 09/04/2007
    • Original Release: 1962
    • Sales Rank: 394
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    Disc #1 -- Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol
    1. Back on Broadway [9:45]
    2. Dreadful Apparition [5:07]
    3. The Miracle of Now [5:21]
    4. Golden Idol [11:34]
    5. Poor Stiff [8:33]
    6. Christmas Day [11:16]

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    Editorial Reviews

    Having made a bundle on their 130-episode package of Mr. Magoo TV cartoons, the folks at UPA studios decided to star Magoo in a 60-minute musical version of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol. First telecast over the NBC network on December 18, 1962, Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol deftly uses the device of depicting Magoo as a famous Broadway star, returning to the stage to essay the role of Ebeneezer Scrooge. This "framing" device has, unfortunately, been eliminated from currently available TV and video versions of this hour-long animated special. Still, Magoo has plenty of time to shine as Scrooge, a role ideally suited for the character's crotchety demeanor and comic nearsightedness. The five original songs by Jules Styne and Bob Merrill are wonderful-far more so than the disposable score of the 1970 live-action Christmas Carol musical adaptation Scrooge. The principal voices are provided by Jim Backus as Magoo, Jack Cassidy as Bob Cratchit, Royal Dano as Marley's Ghost, and Joan Gardner, Morey Amsterdam and Paul Frees. Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol served as the pilot for the 1964 animated anthology series The Famous Adventures of Mr. Magoo, wherein Magoo essayed such literary roles as Friar Tuck, Gunga Din, and all seven of Snow White's dwarves. Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

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    The Greatest Christmas Carol of Them Allby Anonymous

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    October 10, 2006: "Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol" is simply the finest film realization ever, animated or live, of Charles Dickens' wonderful and wondrous tale. Sheer magic, astonishing beauty of song and story, deeply loving, profoundly moving. If you have a heart that has been broken but yet capable of hearing the most exquisite whisperings of that which makes life not just good but even mystical, not just sweet but even sacred, then this film is your film, this story is your story, and its songs sing beauty and comfort to you even in your night of most inward darkness. And the song at the film's center and heart, "Winter Was Warm," sung by a woman with the voice of love itself, is perhaps the greatest song of lost and yearning love ever recorded. A thousand "Bravos" and profoundest gratitude to all who worked to create this magnificent masterpiece of the storyteller's art--this journey from bleakest tragedy to utter exaltation.

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    The Best Cartoon Version of A Christmas Carol!by Anonymous

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    March 12, 2006: Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol is my favorite animated version of A Christmas Carol. I wouldn't say it was my favorite version of A Christmas Carol because I like The traditional Christmas Carol movies the best but it is my favorite Cartoon version and I like the story and the songs and I highly recommend buying the DVD!

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