All the Way Home (1963 film)

All the Way Home is a 1963 drama film directed by Alex Segal and starring Jean Simmons, Robert Preston, Pat Hingle and Michael Kearney. The plot concerns a young boy and his mother who must deal with the sudden death of the family patriarch. It is based on the 1957 James Agee novel A Death in the Family and the 1960 Tad Mosel play All the Way Home.

Plot

Cast

• Jean Simmons as Mary Follett
• Robert Preston as Jay Follett
• Pat Hingle as Ralph Follett
• Aline MacMahon as Aunt Hannah
• Thomas Chalmers as Joel
• John Cullum as Andrew
• Helen Carew as Mary's mother
• Ronnie Claire Edwards as Sally
• John Henry Faulk as Walter Starr
• Mary Perry as Great-aunt Sadie
• Lylah Tiffany as Great-great-grandmaw
• Edwin Wolfe as John Henry
• Michael Kearney as Rufus Follett
• David Huddleston (uncredited)

Release

The film was screened at the first New York Film Festival at Philharmonic Hall on September 14, 1963. Its official premiere was held at the Tennessee Theatre on October 17, 1963.

See also

• List of American films of 1963

References

Further reading

• Paul F. Brown, Rufus: James Agee in Tennessee, Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 422 pages, 2018. . The book's appendix details the making and premiere of the film All the Way Home.

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