Carousel

Carousel

100 mins | Drama, Romance, Music, TV Movie | May 7, 1967

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.

Carousel

100 mins | Drama, Romance, Music, TV Movie | May 7, 1967

Carousel
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.
Producers Armstrong Filmworks
Original title Carousel
Directors Paul Bogart
Writers Oscar Hammerstein II, Benjamin Glazer, Sidney Michaels, Ferenc Molnár

Cast

Robert Goulet

as Billy Bigelow

Mary Grover

as Julie Jordan

Pernell Roberts

as Jigger Craigin

Marlyn Mason

as Carrie Pipperidge

Charles Ruggles

as The Starkeeper / Dr. Selden

Michael F. Blake

as (as Michael Blake)

Jack DeLon

as Mr. Snow

Linda Moulton Howe

as Louise

Patricia Neway

as Cousin Nettie (Nettie Fowler)

Marge Redmond

as Mrs. Mullin

Jim Taylor

as Dancer