An American Christmas Carol

An American Christmas Carol is a 1979 film about a miser is given a ghostly chance at redemption on Christmas Eve.

Directed by Eric Till. Written by Jerome Coopersmith, based on A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens.

Charles Dicken's Victorian London becomes America's great Depression in this exciting new film  (taglines)

Ghost of Christmas Present

• If? That word can be found on dry river beds and trails overgrown by weeds. What's more important are the paths we follow now...

Thatcher

• We know there's going to be other partings among us. A marriage. Long voyages. Even death again. But when someone is remembered with love, their spirit never really dies.

Other

• Mr. Brewster: When the day of quality ends in this country, we'll all be in great trouble indeed.

Dialogue

Benedict Slade: [after watching his younger self make a deal with Jack Latham] Yup, that's me! I always moved in when the moment was good. I could always smell a good business deal.

Ghost of Christmas Past: So could Latham. Look where he ended up.

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Benedict Slade: I know this place. I've never been here before. Why does it look so familiar?

Ghost of Christmas Present: A picture, maybe?

Benedict Slade: On my office wall. My... employee... over his desk...

Ghost of Christmas Present: Your former employee. Remember?

Benedict Slade: He deserved to be fired. Disagrees with everything I do. Conspires with others to pull money out of me. Who needs someone like that around?

Ghost of Christmas Present: There are three in here who do.

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Benedict Slade: [seeing an overgrown gravesite] Wait, wait. There is something about this place. Something draws me right to it. The monument looks fairly new, and yet, neglected.

Ghost of Christmas Future: No one visits that grave.

Benedict Slade: Not ever?

Ghost of Christmas Future: Not ever.

Benedict Slade: To lie in a grave, un-loved and un-remembered, is as if the life was never lived.

Ghost of Christmas Future: That is the only... real death.

Taglines

• Charles Dicken's Victorian London becomes America's great Depression in this exciting new film

• Henry Winkler is Scrooge

Cast

• Henry Winkler — Benedict Slade
• Dorian Harewood — Matt Reeves
• Susan Hogan — Helen Brewster
• Cec Linder — Auctioneer
• R.H. Thomson — Thatcher
• David Wayne — Merrivale
• Michael Wincott — Choir Leader

External links

• An American Christmas Carol quotes at the Internet Movie Database