Home for the Holidays (1972) (TV)

User Rating:

6.5/10   

Director:

John Llewellyn Moxey

Writer:

Joseph Stefano (writer)

Release Date:

28 November 1972 (USA)

Genre:

Mystery | Thriller | Horror

Tagline:

There's nothing more chilling... Than a warm family gathering!

Plot:

An ailing man summons his three daughters home for Christmas and asks them to kill his new wife, who he suspects is poisoning him.

Plot Keywords:

Airport | Christmas | Death | Drinking | Drowning In Bathtub

Cast

Jessica Walter	...	Frederica Morgan
Sally Field	...	Christine Morgan
Jill Haworth	...	Joanna Morgan
Julie Harris	...	Elizabeth Hall Morgan
Eleanor Parker	...	Alex Morgan
Walter Brennan	...	Benjamin Morgan
John Fink	...	Doctor Ted Lindsay
Med Flory	...	Sheriff Nolan

Also Known As:

Deadly Desires

Runtime:

73 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Filming Locations:

Movie Ranch, California, USA

Company:

ABC Circle Films

Goofs:

Continuity: When Christine leaves the house to find Sheriff Nolan it is nighttime, but when she gets to the woods to get away from the killer it is daytime.

Movie Connections:

References Psycho (1960)

Wednesday night Suspense movies

I remember this movie on the Wednesday night suspense movies. It was very creepy. What I remember most of all is the sound of the tinsel tinkling on the Christmas tree every time someone walked by and then Sally Field running past the tree to escape from the killer. The rain in the film made for an unhappy holiday season and then for wrestling in the mud down an embankment with the grandmother who was trying to kill her with a pitchfork -- I thought it was Susan Hayward. How can one get videos of this and other films that played on 70's TV, I wonder? There are many obscure titles that I recall from this series of movies many of which scared the bejesus out of me as a kid.