The Stingiest Man in Town

Name: The Stingiest Man in Town
Director: Jules Bass
Genre: Animation, TV Movie, Fantasy, Family
Released: 1978-12-23
Duration: 50 min
Rating: 5.3
Cast: Walter Matthau, Tom Bosley, Theodore Bikel, Robert Morse, Dennis Day

Directed by Jules Bass

Animation TV Movie

Fantasy

Family

19780h 50m5.3

Overview

An animated adaptation of A Christmas Carol from Arthur Rankin Jr. and Jules Bass -- the duo behind some of the most enduring Christmas specials ever (including Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer). Reinvented as a 49-minute musical, this charming cartoon stars the voice of Walter Matthau as the bedeviled Scrooge and Tom Bosley as the Jiminy Cricket-type narrator, B. Humbug, Esq. It features animation by Japanese studio Topcraft, known for their work on other Rankin/Bass films such as The Hobbit, The Flight of Dragons, and The Last Unicorn.