The story centers on (Sterling Hayden), a wealthy, isolationist industrialist still embittered by the loss of his son in World War II. Unlike the original Scrooge, whose sin is greed, Grudge’s flaw is a "me-first" ideology that rejects international cooperation.

On Christmas Eve, he is visited by three unconventional spirits:

Takes Grudge to a WWI troop ship and a haunting, faceless ward of children injured in the Hiroshima bombing .

Leads Grudge through a post-nuclear wasteland where survivors follow a populist demagogue named "Imperial Me" (played by a chillingly comedic Peter Sellers ). Key Highlights & Critiques A Carol for Another Christmas (1964) Movie Review

A gluttonous spirit feasting at a banquet table while a mass of starving refugees waits behind a barbed-wire fence.