An American Christmas Carol
Drama
Family
TV Movie
Fantasy
Charles Dicken's Victorian London becomes America's great Depression in this exciting new film
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.
1979-12-16
en
Cast
Director
Eric Till
Henry Winkler as Benedict Slade
David Wayne as Merrivale
Chris Wiggins as Nathaniel Brewster
R.H. Thomson as Thatcher
Ken Pogue as Jack Latham
Gerard Parkes as Jessup
Susan Hogan as Helen Brewster
Dorian Harewood as Matt Reeves
Christopher Crabb as Tim
James B. Douglas as Sam Perkins
Arlene Duncan as Jennie Reeves
Linda Goranson as Doris Thatcher
Cec Linder as Auctioneer
Ruth Springford as Mrs. Tidings
Michael Wincott as Choir Leader