Skinflint: A Country Christmas Carol

Skinflint: A Country Christmas Carol

120 mins | Family, Music, TV Movie | Dec. 18, 1979

Charled Dicken's tale A Christmas Carol takes a contemporary jolt in this original musical set in modern-day Tennessee. Cyrus Flint is a mean old banker whose one and only concern is the welfare of Flint City Bank. Dennis and Laura Pritchett are two parents struggling to make enough money to pay for an operation their son needs. Flint is organizing a songwriting and singing contest with a $2000 first prize to promote his bank.

Skinflint: A Country Christmas Carol

120 mins | Family, Music, TV Movie | Dec. 18, 1979

Skinflint: A Country Christmas Carol
Charled Dicken's tale A Christmas Carol takes a contemporary jolt in this original musical set in modern-day Tennessee. Cyrus Flint is a mean old banker whose one and only concern is the welfare of Flint City Bank. Dennis and Laura Pritchett are two parents struggling to make enough money to pay for an operation their son needs. Flint is organizing a songwriting and singing contest with a $2000 first prize to promote his bank.
Producers
Original title Skinflint: A Country Christmas Carol
Directors Marc Daniels
Writers Mel Mandel, Charles Dickens

Cast

Hoyt Axton

as Cyrus Flint

Lynn Anderson

as Laura Pritchett

Mel Tillis

as Dennis Pritchett

Larry Gatlin

as Roger

Julie Gregg

as Joan

Tom T. Hall

as Ghost of Jacob Burley

Martha Raye

as The Ghost of Christmas Past

The Statler Brothers

as The Flint City Four

Danny Davis and the Nashville Brass

as The Ghost of Christmas Present

Dottie West

as Annabelle Williams

Steven Lutz

as T.J.

Byron Webster

as Mr. Abbey

Carol Swarbrick

as Mrs. Abbey

Jean Howell

as Sarah

Dave Madden

as Stanley Gershen

Mickey McMeel

as Announcer (voice)

Gordon Connell

as The Pawnbroker

David Bond

as Christmas Yet to Come