An American Christmas Carol

An American Christmas Carol is a 1979 film about a miser is given a ghostly chance at redemption on Christmas Eve.
 * Directed by Eric Till. Written by Jerome Coopersmith, based on A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens.

Charles Dicken's Victorian London becomes America's great Depression in this exciting new film (taglines)

Ghost of Christmas Present

 * If? That word can be found on dry river beds and trails overgrown by weeds. What's more important are the paths we follow now...

Thatcher

 * We know there's going to be other partings among us. A marriage. Long voyages. Even death again. But when someone is remembered with love, their spirit never really dies.

Other

 * Mr. Brewster: When the day of quality ends in this country, we'll all be in great trouble indeed.

Dialogue

 * Benedict Slade: [after watching his younger self make a deal with Jack Latham] Yup, that's me! I always moved in when the moment was good. I could always smell a good business deal.
 * Ghost of Christmas Past: So could Latham. Look where he ended up.


 * Benedict Slade: I know this place. I've never been here before. Why does it look so familiar?
 * Ghost of Christmas Present: A picture, maybe?
 * Benedict Slade: On my office wall. My... employee... over his desk...
 * Ghost of Christmas Present: Your former employee. Remember?
 * Benedict Slade: He deserved to be fired. Disagrees with everything I do. Conspires with others to pull money out of me. Who needs someone like that around?
 * Ghost of Christmas Present: There are three in here who do.


 * Benedict Slade: [seeing an overgrown gravesite] Wait, wait. There is something about this place. Something draws me right to it. The monument looks fairly new, and yet, neglected.
 * Ghost of Christmas Future: No one visits that grave.
 * Benedict Slade: Not ever?
 * Ghost of Christmas Future: Not ever.
 * Benedict Slade: To lie in a grave, un-loved and un-remembered, is as if the life was never lived.
 * Ghost of Christmas Future: That is the only... real death.

Taglines

 * Charles Dicken's Victorian London becomes America's great Depression in this exciting new film


 * Henry Winkler is Scrooge

Cast

 * Henry Winkler — Benedict Slade
 * Dorian Harewood — Matt Reeves
 * Susan Hogan — Helen Brewster
 * Cec Linder — Auctioneer
 * R.H. Thomson — Thatcher
 * David Wayne — Merrivale
 * Michael Wincott — Choir Leader