

13/11/1957
This is a story based on fact that follows a husband and wife who emigrate from Scotland to Wisconsin in the 1850s. They work very hard and become welcome citizens of their new town, Eureka. They have six children. They prosper in the husband's boat-building business. But when their eldest is 12, tragedy strikes the family, and the 12-year-old is burdened with a terrible task which he handles as well as any adult could.

Glynis Johns
as Jo Eunson

Cameron Mitchell
as Robert Eunson

Rex Thompson
as Robbie Eunson

Patty McCormack
as Annabelle Eunson

Ernest Truex
as Doctor Delbert

Hope Emerson
as Mrs. Pubmeister

Alan Hale Jr.
as Tom Cullen

Sylvia Field
as Lelia Delbert

Royal Dano
as Howard Tyler

Reta Shaw
as Mrs. Runyon

Stephen Wootton
as Jimmy Eunson

Tom Nolan
as Kirk Eunson

Yolanda White
as Elizabeth Eunson

Rita Johnson
as Katie Tyler

Ellen Corby
as Mrs. Raiden

Francis De Sales
as Mr. Stephens

Jon Provost
as Robbie Eunson - age 6

Dabbs Greer
as Clendenning

Mary Adams
as Mrs. Roscoe
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