The Thanksgiving Visitor

Nov 28, 1968

0h 44m

★ 7.0

Overview

In this sequel to Truman Capote's "A Christmas Memory," a boy recalls his life with an elderly cousin in rural Alabama in the 1930s and the lesson she taught him one Thanksgiving Day about dealing with a bully from school.

Genres

Drama

TV Movie

Production Companies

Hallmark Hall of Fame Productions

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Cast

Miss Sook

Geraldine Page

Buddy

Michael Kearney

Odd Henderson

Hansford Rowe III

Miss Armstrong

Joy Nicholson

First Cousin

Virginia Chew

Second Cousin

Lavinia Cassels

Uncle B

Neil Fitzgerald

Mr. Pruitt

Pierre Epstein

Mary Wheelwright

Georgia Simmons

Annabelle Conklin

Christopher Norris

Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

Truman Capote

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