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Title: Carol for Another Christmas (TV Movie 1964)
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| Complete credited cast: | |||
| Sterling Hayden | ... | Daniel Grudge | |
| Eva Marie Saint | ... | WAVE Lt. Gibson | |
| Ben Gazzara | ... | Fred | |
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Barbara Ann Teer | ... | Ruby |
| 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 | |
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Gordon Spencer | ... | Marley Grudge |
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Presented without commercial interruptions, this "United Nations Special" was sponsored by the Xerox Corporation, the first of a series of Xerox specials promoting the UN. Director Joseph Mankiewicz's first work for television, the 90-minute ABC drama was publicized as having an all-star cast (which meant that names of some supporting cast members were not officially released). In Rod Serling's update of Charles Dickens, industrial tycoon Daniel Grudge has never recovered from the loss of his 22-year-old son Marley, killed in action during Christmas Eve of 1944. The embittered Grudge has only scorn for any American involvement in international affairs. But then the Ghost of Christmas Past takes him back through time to a World War I troopship. Grudge also is visited by the Ghost of Christmas Present, and the Ghost of Christmas Future gives him a tour across a desolate landscape where he sees the ruins of a once-great civilization. Written by Bhob Stewart <bhob2@earthlink.net>
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Country:
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EnglishRelease Date:
28 December 1964 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Joseph L. Mankiewicz' Carol for Another Christmas See more »Filming Locations:
Michael Myerberg Studios, New York, USACompany Credits
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American Broadcasting Company (ABC), Telsun Foundation Inc., Xerox Corporation See more »
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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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Words and music by Lew Brown, Charles Tobias and Sam H. Stept
Recreated by The Andrews Sisters
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Originally intended only to be shown on a one-time basis,"A Carol for Another Christmas" remained unseen for 48 years, until broadcast in December 2012 on Turner Classic Movies. It has since had subsequent showings on TCM. See more »Goofs
When Grudge is first being shown the people behind the fence by the ghost of Christmas present you can see the shadows of the snow shakers (that cause the fake snow to fall) on the floor/ground as the camera pans towards them as they are singing. See 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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Don't Sit Under the Apple TreeWords and music by Lew Brown, Charles Tobias and Sam H. Stept
Recreated by The Andrews Sisters
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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.