The Stingiest Man in Town (1978)

  • NR
  • 12/23/1978 (US)
  • Animation, TV Movie
  • 50m

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.

Arthur Rankin, Jr.

Director

Jules Bass

Director

Romeo Muller

Writer

Charles Dickens

Novel

Janice Torre

Writer

Cast

Walter Matthau's headshot

Walter Matthau

Ebenezer Scrooge (voice)
Tom Bosley's headshot

Tom Bosley

B.A.H. Humbug (voice)
Theodore Bikel's headshot

Theodore Bikel

Marley's Ghost (voice)
Robert Morse's headshot

Robert Morse

Young Scrooge (voice)
Dennis Day's headshot

Dennis Day

Nephew Fred (voice)
Paul Frees's headshot

Paul Frees

Ghost of Christmas Past / Ghost of Christmas Present (voice)
Sonny Melendrez's headshot

Sonny Melendrez

Bob Cratchit (voice)
Debra Clinger's headshot

Debra Clinger

Martha Cratchit (voice)

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