Scrooge (1970)

Alec Guinness: Jacob Marley's Ghost

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• Jacob Marley's Ghost : [Scrooge has arrived in Hell]  Ah! So there you are.

  Ebenezer Scrooge : Marley! Where am I?

  Jacob Marley's Ghost : I should have thought it was obvious. I heard you were coming down today, so I thought I'd come to greet you, show you to your quarters. Nobody else wanted to.

  Ebenezer Scrooge : That's... that's very civil of you, Marley. I... I... I... I am dead, aren't I?

  Jacob Marley's Ghost : As a coffin nail.

  Ebenezer Scrooge : I... I had rather hoped I'd end up in Heaven.

  Jacob Marley's Ghost : Did you, indeed? You may find your office here rather small, but not, I trust, unfamiliar.

  Ebenezer Scrooge : Office?

  Jacob Marley's Ghost : Your activities in life were so pleasing to Lucifer that he has appointed you to be his personal clerk. A singular honor. You will be to him, so to speak, what Bob Cratchit was to you.

  Ebenezer Scrooge : That's not fair! It's... it's...

  Jacob Marley's Ghost : Diabolical. I must confess, I find it not altogether unamusing.

• Ebenezer Scrooge : Why do you walk the earth? Why'd you come to persecute me? And what is that great chain you wear?

  Jacob Marley's Ghost : I wear the chain I forged in life. I made it, link by link and yard by yard, while on Earth, and now I will never be rid of it, any more than you will ever be rid of yours!

  Ebenezer Scrooge : [shocked]  Mine?

  Jacob Marley's Ghost : It was as heavy and long as this seven Christmases ago. It's a terrible, ponderous chain you are making, Scrooge!

  Ebenezer Scrooge : Tell me more, Marley, but speak comfort to me!

  Jacob Marley's Ghost : I have none to give.

  Ebenezer Scrooge : None?

  Jacob Marley's Ghost : Comfort comes from other sources, Ebenezer Scrooge, and is given by other ministers than I to other kinds of men than you. When I lived, my spirit, like yours, never walked beyond the narrow limits of our counting house.

  Ebenezer Scrooge : But you were always a good man of business, Jacob.

  Jacob Marley's Ghost : Mankind should be our business, Ebenezer, but we seldom attend to it... as you shall see.

• Jacob Marley's Ghost : You will be visited by three ghosts.

  Ebenezer Scrooge : I... I think I'd rather not.

• Jacob Marley's Ghost : [to Scrooge]  See the phantoms filling the sky around you. They astound you, I can tell, these inhabitants of hell. Poor wretches whom the Hand of Heaven ignores. Beware, beware, beware, lest their dreadful fate be yours!

• Jacob Marley's Ghost : [consigning Scrooge to his quarters in Hell]  Watch out for the rats. They nibble things.

• Jacob Marley's Ghost : Bah, humbug. Merry Christmas.