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The story

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 & crew

Robert GouletBilly Bigelow

Mary GroverJulie Jordan

Pernell RobertsJigger Craigin

Marlyn MasonCarrie Pipperidge

Charles RugglesThe Starkeeper / Dr. Selden

Michael F. Blake

Michael F. Blake(as Michael Blake)

Jack DeLon

Jack DeLonMr. Snow

Linda Moulton HoweLouise

Patricia Neway

Patricia NewayCousin Nettie (Nettie Fowler)

Marge RedmondMrs. Mullin

Jim Taylor

Jim TaylorDancer