Home for the Holidays (1972 film)
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| Genre | Drama Horror Mystery |
| Written by | Joseph Stefano |
| Directed by | John Llewellyn Moxey |
| Starring |
Sally Field Eleanor Parker Julie Harris Jessica Walter Jill Haworth John Fink Walter Brennan |
| Theme music composer | George Tipton |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) |
Aaron Spelling Leonard Goldberg |
| Producer(s) | Paul Junger Witt |
| Location(s) | 20th Century Fox Ranch, Malibu Creek State Park - 1925 Las Virgenes Road, Calabasas, California 20th Century Fox Studios - 10201 Pico Blvd., Century City, Los Angeles, California |
| Cinematography | Leonard J. South |
| Editor(s) | Allan Jacobs |
| Running time | 73 minutes |
| Production company(s) |
ABC Circle Films Spelling-Goldberg Productions |
| Distributor | ABC |
| Release | |
| Original network | ABC |
| Original release | November 28, 1972 |
Home for the Holidays is a 1972 American made-for-television horror film directed by John Llewellyn Moxey, produced by Aaron Spelling and starring Sally Field, Eleanor Parker, Julie Harris, Jessica Walter and Walter Brennan which premiered on ABC on November 28, 1972. The plot focuses on a wealthy father on his deathbed who invites his four daughters home for Christmas and tells them he suspects his second wife of poisoning him. Shortly after, the girls learn that their stepmother was accused of killing her first husband, and they begin to fall prey to a killer dressed in a yellow rain slicker.
The film opens in an enormous house where Benjamin Morgan (Walter Brennan), a rich dying father, is talking to his eldest daughter, Alex (Eleanor Parker). He believes his wife, Elizabeth (Julie Harris), is trying to poison him. Alex believes him. Morgan then sends Alex off to pick up her three sisters. While Alex is driving, she stops and asks her father's doctor, Ted Lindsay (John Fink), for directions. He gives them to her and comments on the fact that the daughters haven't returned home since their mother committed suicide five years earlier.
Later that night, Alex returns with her three sisters, Frederica a.k.a. Freddie (Jessica Walter), Joanna (Jill Haworth) and Christine (Sally Field). They park inside the barn. Once inside the house, they meet their stepmother, Elizabeth. Their father then calls them to his room, where he urges the sisters to kill Elizabeth before she kills them. Elizabeth, meanwhile, has gone outside in the rain to get something from the barn. She then comes back to the confused sisters and shows them all their rooms before making dinner. Joanna wants to leave, while Freddie begins drinking and taking anti-depressants. Christine goes downstairs to make coffee for Freddie and finds Elizabeth making tea. Christine then notices Elizabeth's yellow rain slicker, gloves, and boots by the door. Christine brings Freddie the coffee, but she doesn't want it, preferring the vodka and other alcoholic beverages she has brought; she also talks about their mother and how she never should have died.
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