The Christmas Tree

The Christmas Tree (1969)

Genres - Drama  |   Sub-Genres - Melodrama  |   Release Date - Sep 25, 1969 (USA)  |   Run Time - 110 min.  |   Countries - France, Italy  |   MPAA Rating - G
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Synopsis by Dan Pavlides

Laurent (William Holden) is willing to give his terminally ill son Pascal (Brook Fuller) anything to make his last days comfortable. The unfortunate boy is stricken with leukemia after being showered with radioactive poison when an airplane exploded. Laurent takes Pascal back to Paris where he and his girlfriend Catherine (Virna Lisi) and his war buddy Verdun (Andre Bourvil) try to cater to his every wish. He buys a farm tractor and with the help of the faithful Verdun steals some wolves from the Paris zoo. Father and son spend as much time as they are allowed in this sentimental family story.

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child, Christmas, crash, death, death-watch, family, family-member, father, generation-gap, holiday, love, radiation-poisoning, son, terminal-illness, wealth