An American Christmas Carol

An American Christmas Carol

98 mins | Drama, Family, TV Movie | Dec. 16, 1979

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.

An American Christmas Carol

98 mins | Drama, Family, TV Movie | Dec. 16, 1979

An American Christmas Carol
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.
IMDb rating 6.8
Producers
Original title An American Christmas Carol
Directors Rocco Gismondi, David M. Robertson, Eric Till
Writers Jerome Coppersmith, Charles Dickens

Cast

Henry Winkler

as Benedict Slade

David Wayne

as Merrivale

Chris Wiggins

as Mr. Nathaniel Brewster

R. H. Thomson

as Thatcher

Ken Pogue

as Jack Latham (as Kenneth Pogue)

Gerard Parkes

as Jessup

Susan Hogan

as Helen Brewster

Will Bermender

as Orphan

Dorian Harewood

as Matt Reeves

Tammy Bourne

as Sarah Thatcher

Chris Cragg

as Jonathan Thatcher

James B. Douglas

as Sam Perkins

Arlene Duncan

as Jennie Reeves

Linda Goranson

as Mrs. Doris Thatcher

Derrick Jones

as Harry Barnes

Cec Linder

as Auctioneer

Sylvia Marie Llewellyn

as Latham's Secretary (as Sylvia Llewellyn)

Mary Pirie

as Mrs. Brewster

Sammy Snyders

as Young Slade

Ruth Springford

as Mrs. Tidings

Justine Till

as Young Helen

Michael Wincott

as Choir Leader

William Ballantyne

as Minister

Frank Gibbs

as Fire Chief

Alexander Galant

as Orphan (uncredited)