The Stingiest Man in Town (1978)

Directed by

Jules Bass, Arthur Rankin Jr.

Genre

history, Christmas film

Country

United States, Japan

Runtime

49 min

Rating

5.6 of 10 from 18 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

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)

Trailer

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