Ebenezer

Starring: Jack Palance, Rick Schroder Director: Ken Jubenvill Original UK Premiere: 1997 Dvd Release: 3rd November, 2003 Number Of Discs: 1 Format: PAL, Region 2 Encoding

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Saddle up for a cowboy Christmas in this adaption of Charles Dickens well loved story A Christmas Carol. The scene is transfered from Londons East End to a Wild West town in the Rocky mountains during the Gold Rush. Ebenezer is the miserable card-cheating miser, who owns the local saloon along with half the town. On Christmas Eve he is mysteriously visited by three apparitions who try to teach him the true spirit of Christmas. Will the lessons be learnt? Will Ebenezer show the improverished Bob Crachett any appreciation.

Although this tale is Westernized, it works here. Jack Palance performance of playing the redeemed & transformed Scrooge is excellent. Palances Scrooge converts just slowly enough that its believable & the townsfolk are at least initially reluctant to accept his transformed version. Overall, this warm hearted re-telling of the classic story will be loved by all. It works well !!

Jack Palance is an American actor. Of Ukrainian descent, Palance was born in Lattimer Mines, Pennsylvania. He won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in 1991 for City Slickers. There is an urban legend that Palance liked Marisa Tomei so much that in 1992 he announced her as an Oscar winner for her part in My Cousin Vinny while there actually was another name on his note. According to the legend, this mistake was considered too embarrassing to correct. He currently resides in Tehachapi, California in retirement. Posters Of Jack Palance

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Rick Schroder is an American actor who began his career as a child actor. Schroder debuted in the 1979 remake of the movie The Champ. In the following year, he made a Walt Disney film called The Last Flight Of Noahs Ark with Elliott Gould in which he gave a generally recognised as good performance. However, the film bombed at the box office is generally forgotten. He became well-known as star of the television series Silver Spoons, but as he grew older, he struggled to become known as a serious actor, changing his name from Ricky to Rick & preferring to take roles which helped him to stretch as an actor. His co-starring role in the Western mini-series Lonesome Dove & its sequel, Return to Lonesome Dove, helped Schroders attempt at maturity. Still, it came as a surprise to much of the public when it was announced that he had been chosen to act in the series NYPD Blue, notorious for its partial nude scenes. Schroder only acted in NYPD Blue for three years, preferring to leave Hollywood with his family to life full-time on the familys ranch in Colorado.

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