UnowPriceless hyped garbage

Baseshment I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

ThrillMessage There are better movies of two hours length. I loved the actress'performance.

Roman Sampson One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.

michael thompson I give this film 10 out of 10, when in a way it is not up for scoring points because of it's subject matter, based on a true story.However, because this is a review of a movie I saw decades ago and have never forgotten, the review says I have to vote, so it's a 10, it cannot be less.This movie is based on a true story which makes it all the worse, even writing this review puts a lump in my throat.I defy anybody to watch this movie without weeping out loud, the ending is a killer.If you watch this at Christmas and you have a good heart and soul, it will either put you off your Christmas, or it will make you value what you have, no matter how much that is by today's highly materialistic and in many cases, selfish standards.The hardest heart will be crucified watching this movie.People who spit on the homeless, people who believe the elderly are a burden on the State, people who believe the unemployed are wasters and scroungers, these sad people will be crucified by this movie.This is without doubt the saddest movie ever, ever, ever, made.I defy anybody reading my review to watch this film on Christmas Eve, and then try to enjoy your Christmas.Because watching this movie will put everything in perspective, if it does not, you reading this have no heart and no soul.HAPPY Christmas

woodvillelite This film use to be on television all the time in the 60's and now hardly ever. It came on just a few hours ago and I immediately sat down to watch it as I wondered if it would be as good as I remembered it to be. It was actually better as I picked up on a lot of things I may have taken for granted.I wont go into what has already been said.... sad movie that starts you tearing up mid way through right to the end. Towards the end when eldest brother is delivering his youngest sister to her new home he stops to look in the window of one of the other families where another brother has been taken in. The brother is playing cards with his "new" sister with the parents in the background sitting talking and doing things. The reflection on the window is of him looking in, the sled with his sister in the background, and then you see him leave and start to walk up the road dragging the sled behind. Wow.... this scene was so powerful you wanted to ball right then. Amazing film making and score...definitely more appreciated now than before.

Rgdemond This is a tissue-tugger if there ever was one! I haven't seen this movie in several years but growing up, I always made a point of seeing this movie. It is one of the few movies that as a young man and an adult that I have watched multiple times. I always found it very moving and an emotional experience. I don't normally cry at movies but this one always made me misty. I looked for it for several years, telling my wife what a great movie it was to see and how I wanted to share it with her. I finally wrote to several of the TV networks and got one to respond with the next time it was going to be on television. It was a big night in our household, popcorn popped, tissues handy, and kids to bed as we watched the movie. As the finally credits start rolling and I'm holding back from getting misty, I look to my wife, ask her what she thought and she answered with, "Is that all there is to it?" I was crushed to say the least.At any rate, it still moved me, though I hadn't seen it in years. You feel for the struggles of the family, the harshness of the wilderness and the era for growing family. You see how adversity makes the family more close-knit and the bond between one another grows. No TV, no Nintendo, none of the amenities of today but the love and understanding that builds in a large family that relies on each other.

edwagreen An extremely tragic film. It is so sad that one can easily burst out crying.Something very different for Cameron Mitchell and Glynis Johns. They shared a wonderful chemistry as a foreign couple who settle in the west in the 19th century. They have 7 children and manage a decent, wonderful life. They give so much to their children as they are wonderful people themselves. They may have been poor but they were so rich in spirit.Tragedy strikes. Within a couple of years, both Mitchell and Johns die leaving 7 young children orphaned. The story basically becomes, what is to become of the children? The eldest, who is barely a teenager himself, has the horrible task of dispersing his brothers and sisters. What he has to go through in the process will bring you to tears. When he has achieved his goal and given the last child away, he goes off in deep snow to another town to seek work. Heart-wrenching, tragic-no other adjectives are adequate enough to express the viewers feelings when this film is seen. Truly a classic of major proportions.