Carol for Another Christmas

TV Movie
1964
1h 24m

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Peter Sellers, Peter Fonda, Ben Gazzara, Richard Harris, Eva Marie Saint, Robert Shaw, and Rod Serling in Carol for Another Christmas (1964)

Dark Fantasy Political Drama Drama Fantasy

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.

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Nominated for 2 Primetime Emmys
- 2 nominations total

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Trivia
Peter 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.

Goofs
The Andrews Sisters are billed in the closing credits as "The Andrew Sisters".

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 versions
A 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.]

Connections
Featured in The Unknown Peter Sellers (2000)

Soundtracks
Don'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

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I me mine

Made just after the financial disaster of "Cleopatra" -one of the most unfairly underrated movies of all time,at least in its four-hour version-by Mankiewicz.It's an updated Dickens' "a Xmas carol" with a "modern " uncle Scroodge ;one can notice that the "don't be selfish,open up,don't get caught up in the "me" machine was also treated by Frank Capra in his (certainly more palatable) "it's a wonderful life" .

This is a movie which concerns today's audience ,in spite of its dated details ;more than ever we must help our fellow men and not hide our heads in the sand even when we feel like letting everything down.When the second ghost talks about the hungry people in the world,he's speaking to all of us;it's not surprising that the only man who rebels against the Imperial Me is a black man (and his wife).There's a stellar cast featuring Sterling Hayden as the lead and Eva Marie-Saint,Robert Shaw,Ben Gazarra as the nephew ,Peter Sellers and more ...