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Status
Released
Release
1979
Runtime
2h 25m
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A big-city female doctor returns to her roots in the backwoods of the Blue Ridge Mountains to bring modern medicine to the local folks in the Appalachia of the 1930s and finds herself at odds with the homespun ways of the resident medicine woman.
36 Cast Members
Lindsay Wagner
Dr. Meg Laurel
Jane Wyman
Granny Arrowroot
Dorothy McGuire
Effie Webb
Andrew Duggan
Judge Adamson
Gary Lockwood
Harley Moon
Brock Peters
Joe
John Reilly
Thom Laurel
Charles Tyner
Doug Slocomb
James Woods
Sin Eater
Woodrow Parfrey
Messerschmidt
Peggy Walton-Walker
Mrs. Slocomb
Kath Soucie
Becca
Tracey Gold
Laurie Mae Moon
Cherilyn Parsons
Sophie Pride
Tom Spratley
The Dentist
Gary Graham
Jacob Barth
Ray Young
Joel
Gloria Stuart
Rose Hooper
Mary Ellen O'Neill
Granny Bacon
Meegan King
Willis
