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Stingiest Man in Town
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Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786301760379
Format: Animated, Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC
ISBN: 6301760379
Label: Warner Home Video
Languages: English (Original Language),
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Release Date: December 21, 1993
Running Time: 50 minutes
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: December 23, 1978
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Editorial Review:
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, Stingiest stars the voice of Walter Matthau as the bedeviled Scrooge and Tom Bosley as the Jiminy Cricket-type narrator, B. Humbug, Esq. The 1978 animation is serviceable and the songs are sometimes catchy and clever (a reformed Scrooge tunefully ponders "Man's happiness should be my profit / His suffering my loss"). But since the cartoonists downplayed the scariness of the ghosts and the cute songs just slow the action, the cartoon's intended youthful audience may be end up feeling a bit restless. (Suitable for all ages) --Kimberly Heinrichs
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Needs a DVD release
Havnig played Belle in this show twice on stage, it has always been close to my heart. We videotaped the show off the TV back when it first aired and I can still remember singing along with all the songs - especially It Might Have Been (Belle's song). They seem to release and re-release many of the Rankin Bass specials year after year, but this one is ignored. If all you can get is the VHS, get it. Share it with your kids. It's better than Finney's Scrooge musical and has all the charm of the ... Read More
Rating: - Classic Scrooge animated tale as a musical from Rankin/Bass
While this is mostly the Scrooge story that we all know so well, there are some nice ideas thrown in to make it stand out and work well in it's musical format. Because first and foremost, this is a musical. This special has more songs than any other work by Rankin/Bass, the whopping 11 songs include "Yes, There is a Santa Claus", Birthday Party of the King", "One Little Boy, "Sing A Christmas Carol", "Merry Christmas Uncle Scrooge", "The Chain Song", "An Old Fashioned Christmas", "Song of the Christmas ... Read More
Rating: - Touching, a must see for Xmas time
I really hope they release this one on DVD. It's the most magical and tender version of Dickens's inmortal tale, filled with songs so powerful that will recall that child within you, felling the glow of Xmas the way It's meant to. It's a family tradition to share this animated treasure for us and it just gets better every year. It is just timeless
Rating:  - Good musical "Chrsitmas Carol"
Way, way back at the time of live televison and only black and white pictures, "Stingiest Man In Town" was a Chrsitmas special with Basil Rathbone as Scrooge. It was a musical and, except for an LP recording of the score, quickly faded away. I can still remember sitting glued to the TV watching it. I have the recording and it is always out at holiday time. This was the seed from which this cartoon grew. The scenes were linked, not by Mr. Humbug, but by a quartet of Christmas carolers played by ... Read More
Rating: - Entertaining Version of a Classic Story
I have watched this movie since I was a child...I still have a taped copy from the TV from the mid '80s! The characters are lovable, the songs are catchy, and it's an hour worth sitting down to watch. It has all of the ingredients of the tale of Scrooge and the rest of the cast.
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