The Stingiest Man in Town (町一番のけちんぼう, "Machi Ichiban no Kechinbō") is a 1978 animated Christmas musical television special based on Charles Dickens' 1843 novel A Christmas Carol. It was created by Arthur Rankin Jr. and Jules Bass, and features traditional animation rather than the stop motion animation most often used by the company. It was an animated remake of a long-unseen, but quite well received, live-action musical special (also called The Stingiest Man in Town) which had starred Basil Rathbone, Martyn Green, and Vic Damone. The live-action version had been telecast on December 23, 1956, on the NBC anthology series The Alcoa Hour, and was published on DVD in 2011, by VAI. The animated remake first aired December 23, 1978, in the United States on NBC, and was telecast in Japan the next day.
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Cast[]
Character | Seiyū | Dub Actor |
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Ebenezer Scrooge | Ichiro Zaitsu | Walter Matthau |
Robert Morse (young) | ||
B.A.H Humbug | Masaaki Sakai | Tom Bosley |
Jacob Marley | Jerry Fujito | Theodore Bikel |
Ghost of Christmas Past | Masanori Tomotake | Paul Frees |
Ghost of Christmas Present | ||
Old Joe | ¿? | |
Bob Cratchet | ¿? | Sonny Melendrez |
Mrs. Cratchet | ¿? | Darlene Conley |
Tiny Tim | ¿? | Robert Rolofson |
Belle | Hiromi Ota | Shelby Flint |
Fred | Akira Aoyama | Dennis Day |
Fred's Wife | ¿? | Dee Stratton |
Martha Cratchit | Ado Mizumori | Debra Clinger |
Belinda Cratchit | ¿? | Steffani Calli |
Peter Cratchet | ¿? | Eric Hines |
The Boy | ¿? | Charles Matthau |
Additional Voices[]
- Diana Lee
Video Releases[]
Distributor | Year | Format | Region | Country | |
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Warner Home Video | 1993 | ![]() |
NTSC | United States | ![]() |
2008* | ![]() |
1 NTSC |
*Included in Classic Christmas Favories DVD set with How the Grinch Stole Christmas, The Leprechaun's Christmas Gold, and Pinocchio's Christmas.
External Links[]
- The Stingiest Man in Town at the Internet Movie Database
- The Stingiest Man in Town at Anime News Network's encyclopedia