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7.9/10   47 votes
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Writer:

Rod Serling (writer)
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Release Date:

28 December 1964 (USA) more

Genre:

Drama | Fantasy | War more

Plot:

Presented without commercial interruptions, this "United Nations Special" was sponsored by the Xerox Corporation... more | add synopsis

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Incomparably great TV drama more (7 total)


Cast

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Sterling Hayden ... Daniel Grudge

Eva Marie Saint ... The Wave

Ben Gazzara ... Fred
Barbara Ann Teer ... Ruby (as Barbara Ainteer)
Steve Lawrence ... Ghost of Christmas Past
James Shigeta ... The Doctor
Pat Hingle ... Ghost of Christmas Present
Robert Shaw ... Ghost of Christmas Future

Peter Sellers ... Imperial Me

Britt Ekland ... The Mother
Percy Rodrigues ... Charles
Gordon Spencer ... Marley Grudge
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Additional Details

Runtime:

84 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Sound Mix:

Mono


Fun Stuff

Trivia:

The opening credits are alphabetical; the closing credits in order of appearance. more

Quotes:

[the Ghost of Christmas Present gorges himself at a banquet table, while barbed wired keeps out starving refugees]
Daniel Grudge: How can you sit there and eat like that, when these people are starving?
Ghost of Christmas Present: Oh? Do they bother you?
[he snaps his fingers, the lights go out and the refugees disappear]
Ghost of Christmas Present: Feel better?
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Movie Connections:

Featured in The Unknown Peter Sellers (2000) (TV) more

Soundtrack:

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5 out of 5 people found the following comment useful.
Incomparably great TV drama, 12 November 2002
Author: treagan-2 from San Francisco

This has to be one of the greatest one-time only dramas ever presented on TV. I remember it vividly from its original broadcast: a venal Pat Hingle devouring a huge turkey leg surrounded by starving refugees; the sweet voices coming from little girls scarred by the atomic blast at Hiroshima, their faces covered with gauze; the demented "Imperial Me" Peter Sellars addressing his crazed flock in a burned out cathedral after the nuclear holocaust of the future; Sterling Hayden, a modern Scrooge, his voice changing from booming commands to whimpering as he is led past the succession of proof of man's inhumanity to man.

I saw this again at the Museum of Broadcasting in NYC and I was not disappointed. This is the lost world of thoughtful, creative TV drama, and what a loss it is to us all.

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