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Skinflint: A Country Christmas Carol (1979)
Directed by Marc Daniels
Overview
Charled Dicken’s tale A Christmas Carol takes a contemporary jolt in this original musical set in modern-day Tennessee. Cyrus Flint is a mean old banker whose one and only concern is the welfare of Flint City Bank. Dennis and Laura Pritchett are two parents struggling to make enough money to pay for an operation their son needs. Flint is organizing a songwriting and singing contest with a $2000 first prize to promote his bank.
Length 120 minutes
Actors
Hoyt Axton | Lynn Anderson | Mel Tillis | Larry Gatlin | Julie Gregg | Tom T. Hall | Barbara Mandrell | Martha Raye | The Statler Brothers | Danny Davis and the Nashville Brass | Dottie West | Steven Lutz | Byron Webster | Carol Swarbrick | Dave Madden | Mickey McMeel | Gordon Connell | David Bond | Jean Howell