The Stingiest Man In Town
| The Stingiest Man in Town | |
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町一番のけちんぼう (Machi Ichiban no Kechinbou) |
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| Genre | Historical |
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| Directed by | Katsuhisa Yamada, Jules Bass, Arthur Rankin Jr. |
| Produced by |
Arthur Rankin, Jr. Jules Bass |
| Written by |
Charles Dickens Romeo Muller |
| Music by | Fred Spielman, Janice Torre |
| Studio |
Rankin/Bass Productions Topcraft |
| Released | December 23, 1978 (United States) December 24, 1978 (Japan) |
The Stingiest Man in Town (町一番のけちんぼう Machi Ichiban no Kechinbō?) anime (1978), based on Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol, is a Christmas special created by Arthur Rankin Jr. and Jules Bass, which featured traditional animation rather than the Animagic most often used by the company. It was an animated remake of a long-unseen, but quite well received, live-action musical special (also called The Stingiest Man in Town) which had starred Basil Rathbone, Martyn Green, and Vic Damone. The live-action version had been telecast on December 23, 1956 on the NBC anthology series The Alcoa Hour, and was published on DVD in 2011, by VAI. The animated remake first aired December 23, 1978 in the United States on ABC, and was telecast in Japan the next day.
The Stingiest Man in Town is the tale of Ebenezer Scrooge, told in the 1978 version through the perspective of the insect B.A.H. Humbug (voiced by Tom Bosley), obviously a word play on Scrooge's catch phrase, "bah humbug". Scrooge (performed by Walter Matthau) is portrayed as the tightwad Charles Dickens intended him to be with his consistent resistance to assist the poor or even have Christmas dinner with his nephew Fred, performed by Dennis Day and his family. In hopes of resuscitating the goodness of his one-time friend, the ghost of Jacob Marley (voiced by Theodore Bikel), Scrooge's former business partner, visits Scrooge in his mansion, exhorting him to change his ways. Scrooge deems this to be madness and soon prepares for bed.
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