Movie: The Chimes

Top 9 Billed Cast

Cindy Harrison
Cindy Harrison

Derek Jacobi
Derek Jacobi

Narrator

Gordon Van Rooyen
Gordon Van Rooyen

Julian Ford
Julian Ford

Keith Grenville
Keith Grenville

Michelle Scott
Michelle Scott

Neville Powise
Neville Powise

Pippa Duffy
Pippa Duffy

Ronald France
Ronald France

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    A claymation adaptation of "The Chimes: A Goblin Story of Some Bells that Rang an Old Year Out and a New Year In". The Chimes was a short novel by Charles Dickens which was written and published in 1844, one year after A Christmas Carol. It is the second in his series of "Christmas books": five short books with strong social and moral messages that he published during the 1840s.

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    1999-04-19

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    A claymation Christmas story by XYZoo Animation

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