The Homecoming: A Christmas Story (1971)

7.3/10 99 min Drama Family TV Movie

Overview

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

Jon Walmsley

Jason

Judy Norton

Mary Ellen

Mary Elizabeth McDonough

Erin Walton

Eric Scott

Ben

Kami Cotler

Elizabeth

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