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Movie Description
A Christmas drama based on the novella by Paul Gallico. A frontier woman tells the story of Christmas to the Indian chief who kidnapped her family. As she speaks, he envisions the story as it would occur in the Indian tradition.
Synopsis
Kris Kristofferson and Kim Cattrall co-star in this telefilm of two whites on the frontier who saved their lives by teaching the Story of the Nativity to a savage American Indian tribe.
Ex-gunsmith Jericho Adams has finally settled down on a ranch with his wife, Dora, and their baby boy. Their rustic utopia is later shattered, though, by the arrival of a band of Blackfeet. Apparently, Jericho had shot dead the son of this tribe's chief. Now the Indians plan to take away Jericho's child. But after several skirmishes, Jericho and Dora realize the hellbent natives respond peacefully to the tale of Christ's birth.
The uplifting lore soon thaws the icy relationship between Jericho's family and the tribe.
Film Notes
Additional cast: David Oliver.
Filmed on location in New Mexico.
Originally aired on the cable television channel TNT.
A Ruddy & Morgan production.
The Turner videocassette is part of the "TNT Collection."
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