An American Christmas Carol (1979)

Directors

Eric Till

Cast

Henry Winkler, Dorian Harewood, Susan Hogan, Cec Linder, R.H Thomson, David Wayne

The story

In Depression-era Concord, New Hampshire, a miserly businessman named Benedict Slade receives a long-overdue change in outlook 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, and more amiable man. On Christmas Eve of 1933, Thatcher, Slade's clerk, and his other employees assist him on confiscating the…

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