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Home for the Holidays is a american film of genre Thriller directed by John Llewellyn Moxey released in USA on 28 november 1972 with Sally Field

Home for the Holidays (1974)

Home for the Holidays
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Released in USA 28 november 1972
Length 1h13
OriginUSA
Genres Thriller,    Horror
Rating62% 3.142993.142993.142993.142993.14299

Home for the Holidays is a 1972 American television slasher film from ABC, directed by John Llewellyn Moxey and produced by Aaron Spelling, and starring Sally Field, Eleanor Parker, Julie Harris, Jessica Walter, and Walter Brennan. The plot focuses on a wealthy father on his deathbed who invites his four daughters home for Christmas and asks them to murder his wife. Shortly after, the girls find that their stepmother was a convicted murderess who may or may not have killed her last husband, and they begin to fall prey to a killer dressed in a yellow rain slicker.

Synopsis

The film opens in an enormous house where Benjamin Morgan, a rich dying father, is talking to his oldest daughter Alex. He thinks his second wife, Elizabeth, is trying to poison him. Alex believes him. Benjamin then sends Alex off to pick up her three sisters. While Alex is driving, she stops and asks Benjamin's doctor, Ted Lindsay, for directions. He tells her and comments on the fact that they haven't come to town since their birth mother committed suicide five years ago.

Actors

Sally Field

(Christine Morgan)
Eleanor Parker

(Alexandra Morgan)
Julie Harris

(Elizabeth Hall Morgan)
Jessica Walter

(Frederica Morgan)
Jill Haworth

(Joanna Morgan)
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