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The Homecoming: A Christmas Story (1971)
Directed by Fielder Cook
Drama, Family, TV Movie · 1h 39m
It's Christmas Eve, early 1930s on Walton's Mountain. As the family prepares for the holiday, they anxiously await Pa's return home from his job in the city some 50 miles away. He is late, and Ma and the grandparents hear on the radio a report of a bus accident that worries them. Oldest son John-Boy must step up to help grandfather cut down a Christmas tree, and upon learning the concern about Daddy sets out to find him.
Cast
Patricia Neal
Olivia Walton
Richard Thomas
John-Boy Walton
Edgar Bergen
Ebenezer Walton
Ellen Corby
Esther Walton
Dorothy Stickney
Emily Baldwin
Josephine Hutchinson
Mamie Baldwin
William Windom
Charlie Snead
Cleavon Little
Hawthorne Dooley
Andrew Duggan
John Walton
David Huddleston
Sheriff Ep Bridges
Woodrow Parfrey
Ike Godsey
S
Sally Chamberlin
City Lady
Crew
- Director
- Fielder Cook
- Novel
- Earl Hamner, Jr.
- Director of Photography
- Earl Rath
- Original Music Composer
- Jerry Goldsmith
- Editor
- Gene Fowler Jr., Marjorie Fowler
- Producer
- Robert L. Jacks
Details
- Release date
- 1971-12-19
- Runtime
- 1h 39m
- Genres
- Drama, Family, TV Movie
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- CBS