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Down in the Valley

Apr 16, 1984

0h 51m

★ 0.0

Overview

Short opera. A boy falls in love with a girl after an Appalachian prayer meeting, but her father wants her to go to the dance with a local shyster who the father thinks will bail him out of his money troubles instead.

Genres

TV Movie

Music

Romance

Production Companies

Moving Picture Company

Unitel

Channel 4 Television

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Cast

Brack Weaver

Hutton Cobb

Jennie Parsons

Linda Lou Allen

Bob Sessions

Narrator

Van Hinman

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