Dorothy Summers

Lunatic British comedy about a small town mayor who finds himself the owner of a broken-down London theatre and acting school. Insanity run amok.

On Christmas Eve, an old miser named Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by the spirit of his former partner, Jacob Marley. The deceased partner was in his lifetime as mean and miserly as Scrooge is now and he warns him to change his ways or face the consequences in the afterlife.

Part of BFI boxset Ration Books and Rabbit Pies: Films from the Home Front.

No man is an island, but Charley represents his nation in this economical cartoon tale of Britain’s economics.

Meet Charley, your jovial cartoon guide to Britain’s changing towns and cities.