Release Date

21 Dec, 1980

Runtime

00:26: (HH:MM)

Synopsis

Willy Krueger, a lonely and aging widower, lives in a basement apartment with only his cat George for company. Finishing his work for the day as the custodian for the building, he ventures out on Christmas Eve to buy a tree and on the way, he imagines he is a well-dressed gentleman while peering at some fine tailoring in a shop window along the snowy street. Returning home, he falls asleep listening to an LP by The Mormon Tabernacle Choir, dreaming that he is conducting them in carols of the season. Awakening to find some carollers outside his window, he beckons them to visit him offering hot chocolate, but they leave after only one song. In trimming the tree, he places upon it the mittens left behind by Clarissa, the youngest of the carolling group. Handling figures of the small nativity beneath his tree, Willy finds himself in the manger for the very first Christmas.

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Actors

James Stewart

Beverly Rowland

Kamee Aliessa

Tamara Fowler

Gordon Jump

Oscar Rowland

Tyson Lewis

Darro Glissmeyer

Rolando González

Leslie Peery Howa

Rita Jensen

Alan Nash

Crew

Kieth Merrill

Alan Henderson

J. Scott Iverson

Michael McLean

Ernie Wallengren

Stephen B. Allen

Michael McLean

William J. Evans

Jeremy Lepard

Stephen L. Johnson

Karl Wesson

Thomas Pratt

Paul Nibley

Louis Lane