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In a Maine coastal village toward the end of the 19th century, the swaggering, carefree carnival barker, Billy Bigelow, captivates and marries the naive millworker, Julie Jordan. Billy loses his job just as he learns that Julie is pregnant and, desperately intent upon providing a decent life for his family, he is coerced into being an accomplice to a robbery. Caught in the act and facing the certainty of prison, he takes his own life and is sent 'up there.' Billy is allowed to return to earth for one day fifteen years later, and he encounters the daughter he never knew. She is a lonely, friendless teenager, her father's reputation as a thief and bully having haunted her throughout her young life. How Billy instills in both the child and her mother a sense of hope and dignity is a dramatic testimony to the power of love.

1967 |1h 40m |  Drama, Music, Romance, TV Movie

Cast

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Robert Goulet

Billy Bigelow

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Mary Grover

Julie Jordan

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Pernell Roberts

Jigger Craigin

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Marlyn Mason

Carrie Pipperidge

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Charles Ruggles

The Starkeeper / Dr. Selden

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Linda Moulton Howe

Louise

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Marge Redmond

Mrs. Mullin

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Status

Released

Language

English

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