The Stingiest Man in Town (1978)
December 23, 1978Release Date
The Stingiest Man in Town (1978)
December 23, 1978Release Date
Plot.
Where to Watch.
Cast & Crew.
Walter Matthau
Ebenezer Scrooge
Tom Bosley
B.A.H. Humbug
Theodore Bikel
Marley's Ghost
Dennis Day
Nephew Fred (voice)
Robert Morse
Young Scrooge
Paul Frees
Ghost of Christmas Past / Ghost of Christmas Present (voice)
Jules Bass
Director
Sonny Melendrez
Bob Cratchit (voice)
Media.
Details.
Wiki.
The Stingiest Man in Town is a 1978 animated Christmas musical television special based on Charles Dickens' 1843 novella A Christmas Carol. It was created by Arthur Rankin Jr. and Jules Bass, and features traditional animation rather than the stop motion animation most often used by the company. It was an animated remake of a long-unseen, but quite well received, live-action musical special (also called The Stingiest Man in Town) which had starred Basil Rathbone, Martyn Green, and Vic Damone. The live-action version had been telecast on December 23, 1956, on the NBC anthology series The Alcoa Hour, and was published on DVD in 2011, by VAI. The animated remake first aired December 23, 1978, in the United States on NBC, and was telecast in Japan the next day.