The Homecoming A Christmas Story (1971)

Its Christmas Eve early 1930s on Waltons Mountain As the family prepares for the holiday they anxiously await Pas return home from his job in the city some 50 miles away He is late and Ma and the grandparents hear on the radio a report of a bus accident that worries them Oldest son JohnBoy must step up to help grandfather cut down a Christmas tree and upon learning the concern about Daddy sets out to find him