The Homecoming: A Christmas Story
movie
Released December 19, 1971
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
as
Olivia Walton
Richard Thomas
as
John-Boy Walton
Edgar Bergen
as
Ebenezer Walton
Ellen Corby
as
Esther Walton
Dorothy Stickney
as
Emily Baldwin
Josephine Hutchinson
as
Mamie Baldwin
William Windom
as
Charlie Snead
Cleavon Little
as
Hawthorne Dooley
Andrew Duggan
as
John Walton
David Huddleston
as
Sheriff Ep Bridges
Woodrow Parfrey
as
Ike Godsey
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Sally Chamberlin
as
City Lady
Crew
Fielder Cook
as
Director
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Earl Hamner, Jr.
as
Teleplay
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Earl Hamner, Jr.
as
Novel
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Harold Lewis
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Sound Mixer
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Robert Harris Jr.
as
Costumer
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Betsy Cox
as
Costumer
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Max Stein
as
Assistant Director
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Morton Stevens
as
Music Supervisor
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Edward O. Denault
as
Production Manager
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Pam Polifroni
as
Casting
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Robert Emmet Smith
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Production Design
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Robert Sidell
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Makeup Artist