The Stingiest Man in Town

Dec 23, 1978

0h 50m

★ 5.3

Meet Scrooge...

Overview

An animated adaptation of A Christmas Carol from Arthur Rankin Jr. and Jules Bass -- the duo behind some of the most enduring Christmas specials ever (including Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer). Reinvented as a 49-minute musical, this charming cartoon stars the voice of Walter Matthau as the bedeviled Scrooge and Tom Bosley as the Jiminy Cricket-type narrator, B. Humbug, Esq. It features animation by Japanese studio Topcraft, known for their work on other Rankin/Bass films such as The Hobbit, The Flight of Dragons, and The Last Unicorn.

Genres

Animation

TV Movie

Fantasy

Family

Production Companies

Rankin/Bass Productions

Topcraft

The Stingiest Man in Town Trailers

Cast

Ebenezer Scrooge (voice)

Walter Matthau

B.A.H. Humbug (voice)

Tom Bosley

Marley's Ghost (voice)

Theodore Bikel

Young Scrooge (voice)

Robert Morse

Nephew Fred (voice)

Dennis Day

Ghost of Christmas Past / Ghost of Christmas Present (voice)

Paul Frees

Bob Cratchit (voice)

Sonny Melendrez

Martha Cratchit (voice)

Debra Clinger

Tiny Tim (voice)

Bobby Rolofson

Belinda Cratchit (voice)

Steffi Calli

Peter Cratchit (voice)

Eric Hines

Fred's Wife (voice)

Dee Stratton

Estella Scrooge is a Wall Street tycoon with a penchant for foreclosing. A hotelier in her hometown of Pickwick, Ohio has defaulted on his mortgage and as a Christmas gift to herself, Estella decides to deliver the sad news in person. Arriving at the Harthouse Hotel on Christmas Eve, Estella discovers that the mortgage holder is none other than her childhood sweetheart, Pip Nickleby. Always the humanitarian, Pip has generously transformed the property into a refuge for the distraught, disabled and displaced. A freak snowstorm forces Estella, much to her dismay, to take refuge at Harthouse. That night, as it happened to her ancestor Ebenezer long ago, she too is haunted by three visitations. And oh what uninvited overnight houseguests they are!

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