Skinflint: A Country Christmas Carol

Skinflint: A Country Christmas Carol

Release Date:  12/18/1979
Country of Release:  USA
Length:  99 minutes
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Medium:  Video
Genre:  FAM MUS
Release Message:  On Christmas Eve, an old miser named Cyrus Flint is visited by the spirit of his former partner, Jacob Burley who warns him to change his ways or face the consequences in the afterlife.
Description:  Skinflint featured Hoyt Axton as Cyrus Flint, a greedy banker, who runs the town of Flint City, Tennessee. Like Ebeneezer Scrooge, Flint had an abused, underpaid employee with a dying son played by Mel Tillis. His wife is played by Lynn Anderson. Flint has a nephew, played by Larry Gatlin, that ask him to a Christmas party. Flint is visited by the ghost of a deceased partner, played by Tom T. Hall. He is visited by three more ghosts. The ghost of the past, played by Martha Raye (shows us that Flint's greedy cost him a relationship with a woman, played by Barbara Mandrell.