Füge eine Handlung in deiner Sprache hinzuA strong-willed family in a small New England town struggles against tremendous odds to realize their dream of establishing a sanctuary for the great flocks of wild geese that migrate overhe... Alles lesenA strong-willed family in a small New England town struggles against tremendous odds to realize their dream of establishing a sanctuary for the great flocks of wild geese that migrate overhead.A strong-willed family in a small New England town struggles against tremendous odds to realize their dream of establishing a sanctuary for the great flocks of wild geese that migrate overhead.
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- Drehbuch
- Hauptbesetzung
- Bucky Calloway
- (as Brandon de Wilde)
- Nigosh
- (as Frank de Kova)
- Doug
- (Nicht genannt)
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Keith is so in character, I worried at one point where he broke his leg in the story, whether he was still doing his own stunt work at age 44. I certainly hope not.
Vera Miles sans makeup, hair in a bun, acted like a woman used to roughing it as a wife, mom and woman - not always liking that reality, but continually re-accepting it as part and parcel of her love for Cam. The movie does a good job of demonstrating that both life and love come at a price, but that the risk of seeking what you really want in life is worth the cost.
Even the dog, the blackbird and the bear had their own wranglers in this local-color flick.
I liked the idea of being totally invested in a dream, in idealism, in fervent values, to point where you would stake everything, life itself, to make that dream actually happen - even against overwhelming odds, formidable, moneyed interests, calloused and remorseless antagonists.
The Canadian geese stole every scene they were in. Pythagoras would revere their straight lines of flight, each new group parallel to the flight above them.
The movie made me think of a saying on the back of a T shirt I observed today at the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure for Cancel in Kalamazoo, something Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote: "What lies behind us and what lies before us are not as important as what lies within us."
Tremendous cast: Brandon De Wilde, Vera Miles, Ed Wynn, and Brian Keith as well as Tom Skerritt at age 31. He looks like a young kid.
The movie looks and sounds exactly like what it truly is - a Disney film from 1965, where music telegraphs every upcoming dramatic moment, and violence, blood and gore and so forth are not shown.
At the same time, in our age of IRS corruption and interminable political partisanship, it is heart-warming to see two people renew their love for and commitment to each other, again and again, knowing that, as Langston Hughes wrote, "Life ain't been no crystal staircase."
Such a total lack of pretense in this movie! That sort of pure, ingenuous sincerity, is rare in the world of film and in life where deep concerns for profit, market share, pragmatism, and the every-man-and-woman-for-himself-and-herself world many adopt, crushes out the little important things in life like tenderness, patience, and honesty.
Many of the scenes in this movie have the look of a filmed stage play, and I say that in a complimentary way.
If our local Civic Theatre cast and acted out this dramatic vehicle, it would be tantamount to furnishing audiences with a far more innocent age, a more pure one where people say exactly what they mean and where people mean exactly what they say, even the villains.
I yearn for such unaffected directness.
"Those Calloways" is a live action DIsney film which has long ago faded into obscurity. I decided to watch it because of its impressive cast. However, if you try to watch it on Disney+, you are forced to watch a quick blurb about how the film isn't politically correct. The only 'offensive' things I saw were hunting and trapping and a non-American Indian playing an Indian. In other words, Disney is appealing to REALLY sensitive people out there...and if you see the film, ignore this blurb. By the way, this isn't all that easy because I found if you stop and re-start the film, it makes you watch this statement again.
As for the movie, it seems to epitomize the word 'okay'. It is nice is some ways but in others it could have stood some improvement. In particular, Mr. Calloway is big into preserving the geese from over hunting....but he yells and bellows so much. You can actually understand why many folks DIDN'T listen to him. A John Muir, he was not!
Apart from that, it's the type of live action film Walt himself loved, as it emphasizes a bygone era in America and old fashioned values. Considering his love of the late 1800s and early 1900s, setting the film during the Coolidge administration (1923-1929) isn't a surprise.
Overall, the film features some nice story and nice acting (apart from Brian Keith...the character who seemed to be yelling all the time). It's not a film I'd rush to see but don't let Disney's current warning scare you away...it's not offensive unless you hate hunting and can't get past Frank DeKova playing an Indian...though hundreds of films and TV shows of the 1950s-60s featured this. I don't like it because it's more realistic to have American Indians playing American Indians, but I have pretty thick skin.
I do really like Brian Keith as an actor, but he really did get the more lamer Disney films didn't he? 'The Parent Trap' aside, all of his others with the studio up until this point are marginally good at best; despite Keith's talent.
'Those Calloways' is poorly paced and doesn't have any truly lovable characters. The shtick with the main family is that they are opposed to hunting, yet their whole thing is hunting in itself. Sure, they're doing it for differing reasons, but it's hardly a massive gap - it's not like the film portrays them as disliking it either.
As for the cast, Keith is the best on display as Cam. Brandon deWilde (Bucky), Ed Wynn (Ed) and Walter Brennan (Alf) are fine. All of the antagonists are forgettable, though. Considering how long the film goes on for, they hardly do anything with the exception of one moment. There's a few scenes which could've done with some music too, particularly ones involving Bucky and Whit (Tom Skerritt).
There is definitely a good message attempted, but it kinda falls flat unfortunately. This isn't one I'd recommend, even if it isn't terrible.
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- WissenswertesThe only Walt Disney film for which Max Steiner composed the music.
- PatzerWhen the guys are in the store talking about the town meeting for the hunting club, one of them is holding a box of Winchester AA ammunition. These shells were not available until the 1960's....years after the time frame of the film.
- Zitate
Cam Calloway: Buck, I been asking around. You know something? We could buy this whole place for eleven hundred dollars. I mean, lake and all.
Bucky Calloway: Buy it? Well, what for, Pa? It runs mostly to marsh.
Cam Calloway: Well, for the geese. You know, for a stopping-over place. Some place they could come down every year and be safe from these dogs and guns.
Bucky Calloway: Yeah, but they don't stop every year.
Cam Calloway: Just cos' they ain't been invited. There's a way of bringing them down. Indians got a trick; all you got to do is plant some corn. See you could put a patch over there.
Bucky Calloway: Just corn?
Cam Calloway: Like saying molasses to a bear cub. Them geese can spot a corn husk from two miles up.
Bucky Calloway: I don't know, Pa. Eleven hundred; it might as well be eleven million.
Cam Calloway: Yeah. Well, it's something to think on, anyhow.
- VerbindungenEdited into Disney-Land: Those Calloways: Part 1 (1969)
- SoundtracksThe Cabin Raising Song
Written by Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman
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