![]() ![]() “This Ebenezer Scrooge is no harmless old crank he’s a gun ready to go off - and that makes his redemption all the more cathartic,” a Times reviewer wrote. The classic Charles Dickens story was updated with a protagonist who runs a saloon in the 1870s and snarls, “Christmas, hogwash.” In the Wild West retelling of “A Christmas Carol,” Palance starred as the title character in the movie “Ebenezer, “ which premiered on cable in 1998. ![]() And he was still doing quality work on television in the 1990s - notably in the third installment of the Glenn Close-Christopher Walken vehicle “Sarah Plain and Tall,” in which he portrayed Walken’s long-lost and resented father. Palance was “a constant revelation and delight,” the Times review said, and emerged “as a terrific comedian.”Įqually at home on television, Palance earned an Emmy for his role as a has-been boxer in “Requiem for a Heavyweight” in 1956. He had shown a flair for funny in the comic fable “Bagdad Cafe” (1988), in which he played a retired Hollywood set painter turned primitive artist. ![]()
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