Film · 1968

The Thanksgiving Visitor

Name: The Thanksgiving Visitor
Director: Frank Perry
Genre: Drama, TV Movie
Released: 1968-11-28

44 min · Directed by Frank Perry

Drama TV Movie

7.34
ratings

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.

Cast

Geraldine Page

Miss Sook

M

Michael Kearney

Buddy

H

Hansford Rowe III

Odd Henderson

J

Joy Nicholson

Miss Armstrong

V

Virginia Chew

First Cousin

L

Lavinia Cassels

Second Cousin

N

Neil Fitzgerald

Uncle B

Pierre Epstein

Mr. Pruitt

Georgia Simmons

Mary Wheelwright

Christopher Norris

Annabelle Conklin

Truman Capote

Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

Crew

Director: Frank Perry
Producer: Frank Perry
Writer: Truman Capote
Editor: Marion Kraft
Cinematography: Joseph C. Brun
Production Design: Gene Callahan
Composer: Thomas Wagner
Costume: Anna Hill Johnstone
Makeup: Robert Laden

Details

Studios: Hallmark Hall of Fame Productions
Countries: United States of America
Languages: English
Release: November 28, 1968

Themes

thanksgivingbased on short storytruman capote

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