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An American Christmas Carol (1979)
Directed by Eric Till
“Charles Dicken's Victorian London becomes America's great Depression in this exciting new film”
Drama, Family, TV Movie, Fantasy · 1h 38m
In Depression-era New England, a miserly businessman named Benedict Slade receives a long-overdue attitude adjustment one Christmas Eve when he is visited by three ghostly figures who resemble three of the people whose possessions Slade had seized to collect on unpaid loans. Assuming the roles of the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future from Charles Dickens' classic story, the three apparitions force Slade to face the consequences of his skinflint ways, and he becomes a caring, generous, amiable man.
Cast
Henry Winkler
Benedict Slade
David Wayne
Merrivale
Chris Wiggins
Nathaniel Brewster
R.H. Thomson
Thatcher
Ken Pogue
Jack Latham
Gerard Parkes
Jessup
Susan Hogan
Helen Brewster
W
Will Bermender
Orphan
Dorian Harewood
Matt Reeves
T
Tammy Bourne
Sarah Thatcher
B
Brett Matthew Davidson
Orphan
Christopher Crabb
Tim
Crew
- Director
- Eric Till
- Novel
- Charles Dickens
- Director of Photography
- Richard Ciupka
- Editor
- Ron Wisman
- Producer
- Jon Slan, Stanley Chase
Details
- Release date
- 1979-12-16
- Runtime
- 1h 38m
- Genres
- Drama, Family, TV Movie, Fantasy
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- Canada, United States of America
- Production
- Edgar J. Scherick Associates, Jon Slan Productions, Smith-Hemion Productions
- Budget
- $2,000,000