An American Christmas Carol

TV Movie
1979
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1h 38m

IMDb RATING

6.8/10

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Henry Winkler and Christopher Crabb in An American Christmas Carol (1979)

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In an American town, an old bitter miser is given a ghostly chance at redemption on Christmas Eve.In an American town, an old bitter miser is given a ghostly chance at redemption on Christmas Eve.In an American town, an old bitter miser is given a ghostly chance at redemption on Christmas Eve.

Director
- Eric Till
Writers
- Charles Dickens
- Jerome Coopersmith
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IMDb RATING

6.8/10

1.8K

YOUR RATING

Director
- Eric Till
Writers
- Charles Dickens
- Jerome Coopersmith
Stars

See production info at IMDbPro

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Trivia
The clinic to which Benedict sends Jonathan to treat his polio was run by Sister Elisabeth Kenny, founded in 1932 in Townsville Queenland, over 2000km away from Sydney, which is where the last ticket went to that Slade gave Jonathan as a Christmas gift.

Goofs
Near the end of the film, Slade tells Thatcher's son he's sending him to Australia to a clinic run by "Sister Elizabeth Kenny" (a nurse) to cure his polio caused paralysis. Such a nurse did exist and had developed an effective therapy to cure paralysis. However an American stricken with polio couldn't travel there to visit her. Her methods needed to be employed immediately upon contracting the disease and such a journey would take too much time. American patients were treated by their local doctor or nurse who'd read up extensively on her methods.

Quotes
Thatcher: We know there's going to be other partings among us. A marriage. Long voyages. Even death again. But when someone is remembered with love, their spirit never really dies.

Connections
Featured in Everything is Terrible! Holiday Special (2012)

Soundtracks
We Three Kings
(uncredited)
Written by John H. Hopkins (as John Henry Hopkins, Jr.)

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8/10

A great retelling of this classic story

Just as others have written, Henry Winkler is fabulous playing the miserly lead character that we all know and love. This version honours the original while putting its own spin on the story. This is a great retelling of the original "A Christmas Carol" and I rank it second (along with Bill Murray's Scrooged) to Alastair Sim's version which is #1 of course.

My only disappointment is that it doesn't get shown anymore. I remember seeing this every year for the first few years after it first aired but I haven't seen it in decades (on network tv) and I don't know why. This version deserves to be dusted off and brought back into the line-up of shows that are featured every year!

This is definitely a "must see" if you come across it.