Christmas Carol

Name: Christmas Carol
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Released: 1979-12-16
Duration: 55 min
Rating: 7.4
Cast: Rich Little

TV Movie
1978
55m

IMDb RATING

7.4/10

419

YOUR RATING

Parody Comedy Fantasy

In this one-man show starring Rich Little, Ebeneezer Scrooge (played by Rich as W.C. Fields) hates Christmas, and it's up to the Ghosts of Christmas Past (played by Rich as Humphrey Bogart),... Read allIn this one-man show starring Rich Little, Ebeneezer Scrooge (played by Rich as W.C. Fields) hates Christmas, and it's up to the Ghosts of Christmas Past (played by Rich as Humphrey Bogart), Present (played by Rich as Columbo) and Future (played by Rich as Inspector Clouseau) to ... Read allIn this one-man show starring Rich Little, Ebeneezer Scrooge (played by Rich as W.C. Fields) hates Christmas, and it's up to the Ghosts of Christmas Past (played by Rich as Humphrey Bogart), Present (played by Rich as Columbo) and Future (played by Rich as Inspector Clouseau) to convince him otherwise

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IMDb RATING

7.4/10

419

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 1 win

Trivia
Rich Little plays 18 different characters: W.C. Fields as Scrooge, Paul Lynde as Bob Cratchit, Humphrey Bogart as The Ghost of Christmas Past, Peter Falk as The Ghost of Christmas Present, Peter Sellers (playing Inspector Clouseau) as The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come, Richard Nixon as Jacob Marley, Truman Capote as Tiny Tim, Groucho Marx as Fezziwig, Jean Stapleton (playing Edith Bunker) as Mrs. Cratchit, Johnny Carson as Fred, James Stewart as Dick Wilkins, John Wayne as the 1st Businessman, George Burns as the 2nd Businessman, James Mason as the 3rd Businessman, Jack Benny as the boy at Scrooge's window, Stan Laurel as Mr. Laurel, Oliver Hardy as Mr. Hardy, Dean Martin as the new partner.

Quotes
W.C. Fields as Scrooge: He once told me to treat the warehouse like it was my own.
Humphrey Bogart: What did you do?
W.C. Fields as Scrooge: I sold it.

Connections
Referenced in State of the Union: Prison Thoughts (2022)

User reviews9

Review

Featured review

10/10

Fantastic

This adaptation of "A Christmas Carol" is fantastic. Rich Little's impersonations of W.C. Fields, Richard Nixon, Johnny Carson, Edith Bunker, Truman Capote, Jack Benny etc. are typically excellent... and the replacement of the more typical mannerisms of characters in Dickens' classic with these impersonations is extremely well done.

The only conclusion I can draw from the outrageously low score this movie currently has on IMDb is that some of the people who've rated this movie are not familiar with a significant number of the actors and comedians who are parodied and impersonated in the movie.

Well, that, or IMDb's "weighted average" system is garbage.

This movie is a classic.