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Paul Bogart
1967-05-07


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100 min

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.

Cast

Name Character Team
Robert Goulet Billy Bigelow Unowned
Mary Grover Julie Jordan Unowned
Pernell Roberts Jigger Craigin Unowned
Marlyn Mason Carrie Pipperidge Unowned
Charles Ruggles The Starkeeper / Dr. Selden Unowned
Michael F. Blake (as Michael Blake) Unowned
Jack DeLon Mr. Snow Unowned
Linda Moulton Howe Louise Unowned
Patricia Neway Cousin Nettie (Nettie Fowler) Unowned
Marge Redmond Mrs. Mullin Unowned
Jim Taylor Dancer Unowned