Orphan Train / EMI Television Programs, Inc. ; executive producers, Roger Gimbel, Marian Rees ; produced by Dorothea G. Petrie ; teleplay by Millard Lampell ; story by Dorothea G. Petrie ; directed by William A. Graham.
Publisher:
Parade Video,
Copyright Date:
1998
Description:
1 videocassette (approximately 138 min.) : sound, color ; 1/2 in.
Jill Eikenberry, Glenn Close, Kevin Dobson, Linda Manz, Graham Fletcher-Cook, Melissa Michaelsen. Based on the novel by James Magnuson and Dorothea G. Petrie. Originally produced as a motion picture for television in 1979.
Summary:
In this fictionalized story of the Children's Aid Society in New York in the 1850s, a young social worker, a newspaper photographer, and a group of slum kids travel across the country by train to new lives in the American west.
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