The Stingiest Man in Town (1978)
- Directed by
- Jules Bass, Arthur Rankin Jr.
- Genre
- history, Christmas film, Music, Mystery, Supernatural
- Country
- United States, Japan
- Runtime
- 49 min
- Rating
- 5.6 of 10 from 18 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
This is a retelling of the classic Christmas story about a miserly old man who is visited by ghosts and shown the error of his ways. It is an animated musical with songs and traditional animation.
cheerfulwhimsicalmusicalsentimentalclassicanimatednostalgicheartwarming
What happens
The Stingiest Man in Town is a 1978 animated Christmas musical television special based on Charles Dickens's 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 released 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. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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