Scrooge (1970)
Michael Medwin: Harry, Scrooge's Nephew
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Quotes
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Ebenezer Scrooge : And be good enough to leave me alone during business hours.
Harry, Scrooge's Nephew : Seven o'clock on Christmas Eve? That's not business hours, that's drudgery for the sake of it, and an insult to all men of goodwill.
Bob Cratchit : Here, here!
Harry, Scrooge's Nephew : [surprised] Thank you, Bob Cratchit.
Ebenezer Scrooge : [slowly turns on Cratchit] Another word from you, Cratchit, and you will celebrate Christmas by losing your position.
Bob Cratchit : Yes, sir. Sorry, Mr. Scrooge.
Ebenezer Scrooge : [turns back to Harry] You're quite a powerful speaker, Sir. I wonder you don't go into politics. You're fool enough.
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Harry, Scrooge's Nephew : A merry Christmas, Uncle Ebenezer! God save you.
Ebenezer Scrooge : God save me from Christmas. It's another humbug.
Harry, Scrooge's Nephew : Christmas a humbug? Come, now. I'm sure you don't mean that.
Ebenezer Scrooge : And I'm sure that I do mean that. Merry Christmas, indeed. What reason have you got to be merry? You're poor enough.
Harry, Scrooge's Nephew : What reason have you got to be miserable? You're rich enough.
Ebenezer Scrooge : There is no such thing as rich enough, only poor enough.
Harry, Scrooge's Nephew : Don't be so dismal, Uncle Ebenezer!
Ebenezer Scrooge : What else can I be when I live in a world full of fools babbling "Merry Christmas" at one another? What's Christmas but a time for finding yourself a year older and not a day richer? There's nothing merry in that. If I could work my will, nephew, every idiot who goes about with "Merry Christmas" on his lips should be boiled with his own pudding and buried with a stake of holly through his heart.
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[Scrooge is covertly watching Harry's Christmas party]
Tom - Friend of Harry's : Harry, I've visited you every Christmas for the past five years, and to this day I can never understand this extraordinary ritual of toasting the health of your old uncle Ebenezer. I mean, everybody knows he's the most miserable old skinflint that ever walked God's earth.
Ebenezer Scrooge : [glaring] Who's he?
Ghost of Christmas Present : Oh... just a friend.
Harry, Scrooge's Nephew : My dear Tom, it's very simple. He is indeed the most despicable old miser, worse than you could ever possibly imagine.
[Ghost of Christmas Present bursts out laughing]
Ebenezer Scrooge : You find this amusing?
Ghost of Christmas Present : Believe it or not, he likes you.
Harry, Scrooge's Nephew : See, I look at it this way: If I can wish a Merry Christmas to him, who is beyond dispute the most obnoxious and parsimonious of all living creatures, then I know in my heart that I am truly a man of goodwill.
Ebenezer Scrooge : [rising to lunge at Harry] Scoundrel!
Ghost of Christmas Present : Wait! There's more to come.
Harry, Scrooge's Nephew : And besides... I like old Scrooge!
Ghost of Christmas Present : What did I tell you?
Harry, Scrooge's Nephew : Truly I do! I can't help feeling that hidden somewhere deep inside that loathsome old carcass of his, there's a different man fighting to get out.
Tom - Friend of Harry's : Careful, Harry, he may be even worse than the one you know.
Harry, Scrooge's Nephew : Oh! God forbid, Tom. Anyway, that's the reason I ask him to come here every Christmas, in the forlorn hope that one day he might pick up enough goodwill to raise his clerk's wages by five shillings a week. God knows it's high time he did!
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[a knock at the door]
Ebenezer Scrooge : Fire and damnation! Don't they know that I'm trying to run a business here?
[flings the door open]
Harry, Scrooge's Nephew : Uncle Ebenezer! I cannot tell you what a joy it is to see your happy, smiling face.
Ebenezer Scrooge : Oh... it's you.