The Lion King
1994 · Animation · Family
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Film / 1971
The Homecoming: A Christmas Story
Directed by
Fielder Cook
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 …
The story
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 NealOlivia Walton
Richard ThomasJohn-Boy Walton
Edgar BergenEbenezer Walton
Ellen CorbyEsther Walton
Dorothy StickneyEmily Baldwin
Josephine HutchinsonMamie Baldwin
William WindomCharlie Snead
Cleavon LittleHawthorne Dooley
Andrew DugganJohn Walton
David HuddlestonSheriff Ep Bridges
Woodrow ParfreyIke Godsey
Sally ChamberlinCity Lady
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