The Stingiest Man in Town (1978)

12/23/1978 (JP) • 50m

Animation, TV Movie

Meet Scrooge...

Overview

This cartoon version of A Christmas Carol hails from the production house of Arthur Rankin Jr. and Jules Bass--the team that brought you just about every other Christmas special you saw as a kid (including Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer). Reinvented as a 49-minute musical ghost story, it stars the voice of Walter Matthau as the bedeviled Scrooge and Tom Bosley as the Jiminy Cricket-type narrator, B. Humbug, Esq.

Top Billed Cast

Walter Matthau

Ebenezer Scrooge (voice)

Tom Bosley

B.A.H. Humbug (voice)

Theodore Bikel

Marley's Ghost (voice)

Robert Morse

Young Scrooge (voice)

Dennis Day

Nephew Fred (voice)

Paul Frees

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

Sonny Melendrez

Bob Cratchit (voice)

Debra Clinger

Martha Cratchit (voice)

Bobby Rolofson

Tiny Tim (voice)


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Status

Released

Original Language

English

Budget

-

Revenue

-

Keywords

holiday

christmas

anime

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