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Release Date:
December 23, 1978
Original Title:
The Stingiest Man in Town
Genres:
Animation | TV Movie
Production Companies:
Rankin/Bass Productions
Topcraft
Production Countries:
Japan | United States of America
Ratings / Certifications:
N/A
Runtime: 50
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, it stars the voice of Walter Matthau as the bedeviled Scrooge and Tom Bosley as the Jiminy Cricket-type narrator, B. Humbug, Esq.
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Animation:
Yoshiko Sasaki
Masahiro Yoshida
Animation Coordinator:
Tooru Hara
Animation Director:
Katsuhisa Yamada
Animation Supervisor:
Tsuguyuki Kubo
Associate Producer:
Masaki Îzuka
Background Designer:
Minoru Nishida
Director:
Arthur Rankin, Jr.
Jules Bass
Layout:
Hidemi Kubo
Tadakatsu Yoshida
Ikko Kobayashi
Lyricist:
Janice Torre
Music:
Bernard Hoffer
Novel:
Charles Dickens
Original Music Composer:
Fred Spielman
Producer:
Arthur Rankin, Jr.
Jules Bass
Production Design:
Paul Coker Jr.
Songs:
Fred Spielman
Writer:
Romeo Muller
Janice Torre
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