After
a nine-year estrangement from their wealthy father, Benjamin Morgan
(Walter Brennan), after he had an affair with Elizabeth
Hall (Julie Harris) which led to their mother’s suicide, he
summons home his four daughters.
Reluctantly,
because Elizabeth is now their stepmother, Alex, Freddy, Jo, and Chris Morgan (Eleanor Parker,
Jessica Walter, Jill Haworth and Sally Field)
all return to their father’s home on Christmas Eve, to find that Benjamin is
bedridden, but has reinstated them into his will, and he believes that
Elizabeth is slowly poisoning him to death.
He
needs the girls to stop her, by killing her, if necessary, but as she was
suspected of killing her first husband the worry is that she might kill them
all.
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