Review – Carol for Another Christmas

Ask Rod Serling to redo Dickens and you get pretty much exactly what you’d expect. Sterling Hayden takes on the Scrooge part, perfectly typecast as a crabby conservative corporate type clinging to his greed and xenophobia. The usual ghosts take him on an all extra preachy journey from the grim history of war profiteering to a post-nuclear-apocalypse world dominated by an insane cult leader (Peter Sellers). This plays like an extra-long, extra-strange episode of The Twilight Zone, which makes it an interesting look back into internationalist politics in the mid 1960s. Mildly amusing