Ebeneezer Scrooge (Alastair Sim) contentedly meanders through his life as a cruel miser until one fateful Christmas Eve when he is visited by three ghosts. The spirits show him how his behavior over the years has left him a lonely old man, and also his soul has grown colder. Using events from Scrooge's idealistic past, dreary present and dismal future, the apparitions try their best to melt his steely soul. Tight fisted Ebeneezer Scrooge manages to make everyone's lives a little brighter, finds the error of his ways through the intervention of the ghost of his former partner and also those three spirits and, only in time for the holiday season, '' he comprised! (The Title has been changed to"A Christmas Carol")