The Stingiest Man in Town

The Stingiest Man in Town

51 mins | Animation, TV Movie | Dec. 23, 1978

This cartoon version of A Christmas Carol hails from the production house of Arthur Rankin Jr. and Jules Bass--the team that brought you just about every other Christmas special you saw as a kid (including Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer). Reinvented as a 49-minute musical ghost story, Stingiest stars the voice of Walter Matthau as the bedeviled Scrooge and Tom Bosley as the Jiminy Cricket-type narrator, B. Humbug, Esq.

The Stingiest Man in Town

51 mins | Animation, TV Movie | Dec. 23, 1978

The Stingiest Man in Town
This cartoon version of A Christmas Carol hails from the production house of Arthur Rankin Jr. and Jules Bass--the team that brought you just about every other Christmas special you saw as a kid (including Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer). Reinvented as a 49-minute musical ghost story, Stingiest stars the voice of Walter Matthau as the bedeviled Scrooge and Tom Bosley as the Jiminy Cricket-type narrator, B. Humbug, Esq.
IMDb rating 6.5
Producers Topcraft, Rankin/Bass Productions
Original title The Stingiest Man in Town
Directors Arthur Rankin, Jr., Jules Bass
Writers Janice Torre, Romeo Muller, Charles Dickens

Cast

Walter Matthau

as Ebenezer Scrooge (voice)

Tom Bosley

as B.A.H. Humbug (voice)

Theodore Bikel

as Marley's Ghost (voice)

Robert Morse

as Young Scrooge (voice)

Dennis Day

as Nephew Fred (voice)

Paul Frees

as Ghost of Christmas Past / Ghost of Christmas Present (voice)

Sonny Melendrez

as Bob Cratchit (voice)

Bobby Rolofson

as Tiny Tim (voice)