Hellen I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

Diagonaldi Very well executed

Actuakers One of my all time favorites.

Dotbankey A lot of fun.

pensman A dated film with a sledge hammer of a message yet it still has a resonant touch here and there. The images of the barbed wire camps bring to mind the camps of current refuges fleeing Syria; and Peter Sellers as the Imperial Me strikes a chord with the current culture of self-esteem enjoying its moment, not to mention the easy comparison to our current President- elect (2016). Granted the acting is heavy handed but with both Sterling Hayden and Sellers in this production , I have to believe that Rod Serling considered that in case people found the message of Dr. Strangelove or: How I learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb too subtle (as if), he was going all out here to make it clear. Might be time for an update, but I believe the current "Conservative" political climate is too charged to be able to pull it off.

Tad Pole . . . by piggy-backing a lot of One-World, Total Disarmament, Income Redistribution prattle on the framework of the beloved Charles Dickens story, A CHR!STMAS CAROL. Misers, epitomized by Dickens' Ebenezer Scrooge, are obsessed by arithmetic--NOT creature comforts, conspicuous consumption, the Seven Deadly Sins, or any other vice. Due to childhood trauma, they hoard their gold, just as other people hoard shoes or cats. Scrooge would NOT burn a lump of coal or eat a decent meal on his own behalf. A CAROL FOR ANOTHER CHR!TMAS tries to equate Scrooge with its main character, Daniel Grudge. Dan lives by himself in a luxurious mansion, spends money like water on frills such as domestic help and chandeliers, and puts his energy into being a blow-hard ideologue. While Scrooge only had one thought in his head (Get and save every penny), Dan spouts off endlessly about various facets of international politics. Barb wire mazes, Japanese girls without faces, crazy cowboys, casket convoys, United Nations, poor relations, kids with guns, Armageddons--what does any of this have to do with Christmas?!

Michael_Elliott A Carol for Another Christmas (1964) * (out of 4) Rod Sterling wrote this updated version of Dickens' A Christmas Carol, which centers on a grieving father (Sterling Hayden) who recently lost his son in a war and takes his anger out on everyone around him. The man eventually gets visited by three ghosts (Steve Lawrence, Pat Hingle, Robert Shaw) and learns a lesson. A CAROL FOR ANOTHER Christmas was directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz and if you look around at reviews you'll see that there are many positive ones but I'm not going to be among them. In fact, I'd go as far to say that this here is without question the worst "version" of the Dickens' tale that I've ever seen and it's rather shocking that with a writer and director like this film has that the film could turn out so bad. The idea of updating the story isn't what kills the film. The film is a very anti-war picture that speaks of the evils of war and it pretty much beats the viewer over the head with its message. I don't mind any film being political and I don't mind a message being passed but what I can't stand is when that political message is poorly written and is nothing more than a writer ranting for people to hear his story. I personally grew tired of the dialogue within the first ten-minutes and I really started to hate the characters. Nothing here felt real because it just seemed like one big political rant. Yes, war is evil. Yes, people die in war. The message could have gotten across a lot better without all the preaching and bad dialogue. Not to mention countless bad situations where things happen for no reason other for another speech. The film offers up some fine performances by all and we also get Ben Gazzara, Eva Marie Saint, Britt Ekland and Peter Sellers in brief roles. Fans of the all-star cast are going to be tempted to watch this thing and it's a real shame their talents are so wasted.

dbdumonteil Made just after the financial disaster of "Cleopatra" -one of the most unfairly underrated movies of all time,at least in its four-hour version-by Mankiewicz.It's an updated Dickens' "a Xmas carol" with a "modern " uncle Scroodge ;one can notice that the "don't be selfish,open up,don't get caught up in the "me" machine was also treated by Frank Capra in his (certainly more palatable) "it's a wonderful life" .This is a movie which concerns today's audience ,in spite of its dated details ;more than ever we must help our fellow men and not hide our heads in the sand even when we feel like letting everything down.When the second ghost talks about the hungry people in the world,he's speaking to all of us;it's not surprising that the only man who rebels against the Imperial Me is a black man (and his wife).There's a stellar cast featuring Sterling Hayden as the lead and Eva Marie-Saint,Robert Shaw,Ben Gazarra as the nephew ,Peter Sellers and more ...