Rod Serling’s Nuclear Nightmare: Carol for Another Christmas
- This is a past program
Presented by the UCLA Film & Television Archive.
Part of the UCLA Film & Television Archive screening series Archive Television Treasures. Learn more at cinema.ucla.edu.
In person: Introduction by author Anne Serling, who will join Television Curator Mark Quigley for a post-screening conversation. Prior to the screening, Serling will sign copies of her book As I Knew Him: My Dad, Rod Serling.
Preserved by UCLA — new 35mm preservation print!
Carol for Another Christmas (1964) reunites stars Sterling Hayden and Peter Sellers of Dr. Strangelove in Rod Serling’s impassioned telefilm to promote the peace-keeping work of the United Nations. Artistically resembling a feature-length Twilight Zone, Serling illuminates the suffering at Hiroshima, the plight of innocents displaced by war, and the tragedy of hunger. The unflinching drama culminates in a post-apocalyptic future led by an egomaniacal demigod self-named “Imperial Me” (Peter Sellers).
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