Michael Medwin credited as playing...
Harry, Scrooge's Nephew
- 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.
- [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!
- 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.
- [Harry knocks at the door of Scrooge's office]
- Ebenezer Scrooge: Fire and damnation! Don't they know that I'm trying to run a business here?
- Harry, Scrooge's Nephew: [flings the door open] Uncle Ebenezer! I cannot tell you what a joy it is to see your happy, smiling face.
- Ebenezer Scrooge: [none too surprised] Oh.. it's you.