Carol for Another Christmas
- TV Movie
- 1964
- 1h 24m
Daniel Grudge, a wealthy industrialist and fierce isolationist long embittered by the loss of his son in World War II, is visited by three ghosts on Christmas Eve who lead him to reconsider ... Read allDaniel Grudge, a wealthy industrialist and fierce isolationist long embittered by the loss of his son in World War II, is visited by three ghosts on Christmas Eve who lead him to reconsider his attitude toward his fellow man.Daniel Grudge, a wealthy industrialist and fierce isolationist long embittered by the loss of his son in World War II, is visited by three ghosts on Christmas Eve who lead him to reconsider his attitude toward his fellow man.
- Nominated for 2 Primetime Emmys
- 2 nominations total
- Number 32
- (uncredited)
- Marley Grudge
- (uncredited)
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- TriviaPeter Fonda, playing Marley, was edited out of the film shortly before it aired, yet he is still visible in a portrait on a wall in Grudge's study. He also can be glimpsed in a reflection in the glass of a door and silently sitting at the dining room table.
- GoofsLt. Gibson (Eva Marie Saint) states that 100,000 were killed the day Hiroshima was attacked and that it was "almost as many" killed as suffered by the Confederate States in the Civil War. Actually, the Confederacy lost many more killed --- an estimated 260,000.
- Quotes
Imperial Me: Now then, they don't come out in so many words and say that they want to take us over. They're too clever for that. But, that's what they want. They want to take over us. Individual Me. And if we let them seep in here from down yonder and cross river - if we let these do-gooders, these bleeding hearts, propagate their insidious doctrine of involvement among us - then my dear friends, my beloved Me's - we's in trouble. Deep, deep trouble. Because - because we have now reached a pure state of civilization. The world of the ultimate Me is finally within our grasp. Its a world were only the strong will exist. Where only the path will love. Where finally the word "we" will be stamped out and will become "I" - forever! Because we are each the wise. We're each the strong. And we are each the individual Me's!
- Alternate versionsA version shown on Turner Classic Movies eliminates any mention of composer Henry Mancini and replaces the opening 'Carol for Another Christmas' theme with a reprise of the choral music played over the closing credits. [The TCM version aired 4/16/24 included Mancini's music credit immediately after the actors' opening credits.]
- ConnectionsFeatured in The Unknown Peter Sellers (2000)
- SoundtracksDon't Sit Under the Apple Tree
Words and music by Lew Brown (uncredited), Charles Tobias (uncredited) and Sam H. Stept (uncredited)
Recreated by The Andrews Sisters
The underlying message that author Charles Dickens was attempting to communicate was for us as humanity to act in the spirit of kindness and forgiveness. In this film version of a single man's influence by the spirits of Christmas Eve, past, present, in the time or world wars provides us the viewer that we all have a responsibility to take care of one another and not look at the world in isolation from what troubles the world is experiencing as a whole.
Since the film was released in 1964, there are some scenes which would not be acceptable to today's society in terms of equality and country centric economic superiority, but the message is well received if only we open our eyes, hearts and mind.
I give the film a decent enough 7 out of 10 IMDb rating.
- Ed-Shullivan
- Aug 14, 2024
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- Joseph L. Mankiewicz' Carol for Another Christmas
- Filming locations
- Roosevelt Field, Garden City, Long Island, New York, USA(Studio, now a shopping mall)
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- Runtime1 hour 24 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 1.33 : 1
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