The Dark Secret of Harvest Home

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The Dark Secret of Harvest Home
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Genre	Mystery Horror Thriller
Based on	Harvest Home novel by Tom Tryon
Written by	Jack Guss Charles E. Israel
Directed by	Leo Penn
Starring	Bette Davis David Ackroyd Joanna Miles Rosanna Arquette Norman Lloyd
Music by	Paul Chihara
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
Production
Producer	Jack Laird
Cinematography	Charles Correll Jim Dickson Frank V. Phillips
Editors	Robert F. Shugrue Robert Watts
Running time	228 minutes (original airing)
Production company	Universal Television
Release
Original network	NBC
Original release	January 23–24, 1978

The Dark Secret of Harvest Home is a 1978 American television horror-thriller miniseries, produced by Universal Television and directed by Leo Penn, that aired January 23–24, 1978 on NBC.^[1] The screenplay was based on the 1973 novel Harvest Home by Tom Tryon and is largely faithful to the original material.^[2]

Cast[]

• Bette Davis^[3] – Widow Fortune
• David Ackroyd – Nick Constantine
• Joanna Miles – Beth Constantine
• Rosanna Arquette – Kate Constantine
• René Auberjonois – Jack Stump
• John Calvin – Justin Hooke
• Norman Lloyd – Amys Penrose
• Stephen Joyce - Robert Dodd
• Linda Marsh – Maggie Dodd
• Michael Durrell - Ty Barth
• Steve Gustafson - Jimmy Minerva
• Michael O'Keefe – Worthy Pettinger
• Grayce Grant - Mrs. Pettinger (Worthy's mother)
• Martin Shakar - David Adwell
• Laurie Prange – Sophie Hooke
• Lina Raymond – Tamar Penrose
• Tracey Gold – Missy Penrose
• Bill Balhatchet and Kathleen Howland – Fred and Asia Minerva

Release[]

The miniseries originally aired on NBC in 1978, and reran in March 1979.^[4] It was also shown on TNT in 1992, in two parts. This two-parter was the full 3-hour, 48-minute version. It was later broadcast in a slightly truncated version, running just about 3 hours, on the Sci-Fi Channel at some point in the mid-1990s. Many bootleg copies are taken from this source. The Dark Secret of Harvest Home has been released on video; this version is more heavily edited, running only 2 hours long.^{[citation needed]}

The chapters to this series are:

• Part 1: Ploughing Day, Planting Day, Agnes Fair, Choosing The Young Lord, The Day Of Seasoning
• Part 2: Tithing Day, Sheaving Tide, Husking Bee, Corn Play, Kindling Night, Harvest Home

References[]

External links[]

• The Dark Secret of Harvest Home at IMDb
• The Obscurity Factor : Bette Davis & Rosanna Arquette in The Dark Secret of Harvest Home (1978)

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