Carol For Another Christmas (1964)рџ”№ Guide

A gluttonous spirit feasting at a banquet table while a mass of starving refugees waits behind a barbed-wire fence.

On Christmas Eve, he is visited by three unconventional spirits: Carol for Another Christmas (1964)рџ”№

is a grim, surreal, and fiercely political anti-war reimagining of Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol . Written by Rod Serling immediately following the cancellation of The Twilight Zone and directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz , this star-studded TV movie was produced to promote the mission of the United Nations. After its initial airing on ABC on December 28, 1964, it was essentially "lost" for nearly 50 years until it resurfaced on TCM in 2012. The Plot: Scrooge with a Nuclear Twist A gluttonous spirit feasting at a banquet table

The story centers on (Sterling Hayden), a wealthy, isolationist industrialist still embittered by the loss of his son in World War II. Unlike the original Scrooge, whose sin is greed, Grudge’s flaw is a "me-first" ideology that rejects international cooperation. Mankiewicz , this star-studded TV movie was produced