by Hal Erickson
synopsis
Made up to look like a septuagenarian, Henry Winkler plays Benedict Slade, a Scrooge-like miser living in a tiny New England town during the Depression. Slade goes Scrooge one further by repossessing items from a poor farm couple and an orphanage on Christmas eve. While reading a copy of Dickens' The Christmas Carol in his home, Slade is visited by his own set of Spirits Past, Present and Future, including his Hell-dwelling late business partner (Kenneth Pogue). Lensed in Canada, this made-for-TV film premiered the week before Christmas of 1979.
characteristics
- Christmas
- Redemption
- Incurable-disease
- Righting The Wronged
- Selfishness
- Terminal-illness
- Holiday
- Ghosts
- Family
- Down On Their Luck
- Fathers And Sons
- Financier