The Thanksgiving Treasure (1973)

I’ve had a copy of this (as part of a set with The House Without a Christmas Tree) for many years, but it wasn’t until buying the other two films in the series that I felt the push to put this one in. In all of the films, Lisa Lucas is a young girl living in 1940s Nebraska with her widowed father Jason Robards and her grandmother Mildred Natwick. In this one, Lisa, inspired by a school lesson on the first Thanksgiving, secretly reaches out and befriends a local misanthrope, despite her father’s feud with the man. Though they are relatively low budget made for television specials, the cast is appealing, especially Lucas in the lead. There are so few good Thanksgiving themed movies that I’ll probably be visiting this one again regularly in future years.