A Carol for Another Christmas

A Carol for Another Christmas also known as Carol for Another Christmas is a 1964 American television film, scripted by Rod Serling as a modernization of Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol and a plea for global cooperation. It was the first in a planned series of television specials developed to promote the United Nations and educate viewers about its mission. Originally televised on the American Broadcasting Company ABC network on December 28, 1964, it was not shown again for 48 years, until Turner Classic Movies TCM broadcast it on December 16, 2012.

On Christmas Eve, Daniel Grudge Hayden, a rich American industrialist, sits alone in a dark room of his mansion playing a record of a World War IIera popular song, Dont Sit Under the Apple Tree with Anyone Else but Me by The Andrews Sisters. He looks at a display of war medals on the wall and seems about to cry. He shuts off the player, but as he leaves the room, he hears the record start to play again of its own accord, although the record player is still shut off. Downstairs, he meets a visitor, his nephew Fred Gazzara. Grudge caustically notes that Fred always comes to him for help with various causes and asks what cause he is promoting this time. Fred complains that Grudge used his influence to cancel a cultural exchange program that Freds university had planned with a Polish university. Grudge gets into a heated argument with Fred, with Grudge taking the isolationist position that the United States should stay out of international affairs, and not participate in cultural exchange programs, foreign aid to the needy, or discussions at the United Nations. Grudge distrusts foreign countries, and contends that the U.S. should build up its arsenal, including nuclear weapons, and make sure other countries know the U.S. is willing to use them. Fred disagrees, arguing that the U.S. should help all people in need and foster international communication in order to avoid future wars and nuclear destruction. As Fred leaves, he reminds his uncle that they have one thing in common their love for Grudges son Marley, who was killed in WWII twenty years earlier, on Christmas Eve 1944.After Fred leaves, Grudge once again hears the record playing upstairs, and sees a short vision of the deceased Marley sitting at the dining room table. Suddenly Grudge finds himself aboard a World War Iera troopship, which is carrying many coffins. A soldier on board introduces himself as the Ghost of Christmas Past Lawrence and explains that the ship is carrying the dead of all nations and from a

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