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Carol for Another Christmas (1964)
Country of Origin: USA
Date of Original Broadcast: 28 December 1964
Number of Seasons: n/a
Total Number of Episodes: 1
Average Episode Running Times: 84 mins
Format:
Colour Format: black and white
Sound: mono
CREDITS
PRODUCTION
Production Companies: A Telsun Foundation, Inc. production
Executive Producer: Edgar Rosenberg
Producer: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Associate Producer/Production Supervisor: C.O. Erickson
Production Manager: Jim Digangi
SCRIPT
Written by: Rod Serling
Novel: A Christmas Carol by Charles
Dickens (uncredited)
DIRECTION
Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Assistant Director: Dan Eriksen
PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Arthur J. Ornitz
EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION
Editors: Nathan Greene, Robert Lawrence
MUSIC
Music: Henry Mancini
Song: Lew Brown, Charles Tobias, Sam H. Stept (Don't Sit Under the Apple
Tree)
Song Performed By: The Andrews Sisters (Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree)
Choral Supervisors: Alice Parker, Thomas Pyle
Music Editor: Richard Carruth
SOUND
Sound: James Shields
Sound Re-Recordist: Richard Vorisek
Sound Effects Editor: Jerry Greenberg
COSTUMES AND MAKE-UP
Make Up: Irving Buchman
Costume Designer: Anna Hill Johnstone
VISUAL EFFECTS
Titles: Film Dimensions Inc
DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Production Designer: Gene Callahan
Assistant Art Director: Lee Aronsohn
Set Decorator: Jack Wright Jr
Property Master: Thomas Wright
OTHER CREW
Script Supervisor: Marguerite James
Assistant to Producer: Eleanor Wolquitt
LOCATIONS
Studio: Michael Myerberg Studios, New York, USA
CAST
Sterling Hayden (Daniel Grudge)
Percy Rodriguez (Charles)
Eva Marie Saint (The Wave)
Ben Gazzara (Fred)
Barbara Ainteer (Ruby)
Steve Lawrence (Ghost of Christmas Past)
James Shigeta (the doctor)
Pat Hingle (Ghost of Christmas Present)
Robert Shaw (Ghost of Christmas Future)
Peter Sellers (Imperial Me)
Britt Ekland (the mother)
Peter Fonda (Marley (uncredited))
PLOT SUMMARY
Industrial tycoon Daniel Grudge is mourning the death in combat of
his son Marley on Christmas Eve, 1944. Becoming cold-hearted and distrusting
of US involvment in international affairs, he's visited by the Ghosts
of Christmas Past, Present and Future.
AVAILABILITY
USA
Television Distributors: ABC
TIMELINE
1964
December
28: USA - television broadcast (on ABC)
ALTERNATIVE TITLES
Canto per un altro Natale - Italian title
LINKS
SEE ALSO
A Christmas Carol
(adaptations)
REFERENCES
BOOKS
A Christmas Carol and Its Adaptations: A Critical
Examination of Dickens's Story and Its Productions on Screen and Television
by Fred Guida (Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc (2000)) pp.191-192
credits
Serling: The Rise and Twilight of Television's Last Angry Man
(USA: Dutton (1992))
production notes (by Gordon F. Sander)
KEYWORDS
book into film, christmas, ghosts, war
Last Updated:
15 October, 2008
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