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When my family watched this we had gotten very attached to the characters and wanted to know the whole story (today's films would have followed the tale with "So-and-so went on to do such-and-such"). Knowing that the tale is TRUE made it more powerful but unfulfilled at the end without following up. The local Wisconsin online historical societies had the best coverage of the Eunson's. The writer (who lived to be 98) is one of the grandchildren of the parents in the story.... Clark County Press usgennet.org is where I found what we wanted to know when the film 'ended'. Could be a good propaganda piece for vaccinations!
- hopesprings-544-189075
- 1 दिस॰ 2012
- परमालिंक
"All Mine to Give" is based on a real story, so it definitely has realism on its side. It's the story of a hard luck family living in Wisconsin during the mid-19th century. You see Mr. and Mrs. Eunson create a family and work hard to raise them until ultimately both parents die from illnesses--leaving six kids and the oldest was only 12. It is then the sad duty of this oldest boy to find homes for each of his siblings on Christmas.
If the film sounds incredibly depressing and awful, well, you'd be right. It's exceptionally made, well acted and worth seeing...but it's also the type film that might send you over the edge! It is not a film for anyone to see who's suffered a recent loss or is dealing with depression. It's definitely a film to see with Kleenex nearby. And I really did marvel at some of the child actors in this one...they were amazing. Though, once again, I should point out that this is one of the most painful films you could see....remember this when you choose to see the movie.
By the way, although I did enjoy the film and do haltingly recommend it, I was left wondering WHO created the fake eyebrows worn by Cameron Mitchell in the film. Could it have been Jim Henson?
If the film sounds incredibly depressing and awful, well, you'd be right. It's exceptionally made, well acted and worth seeing...but it's also the type film that might send you over the edge! It is not a film for anyone to see who's suffered a recent loss or is dealing with depression. It's definitely a film to see with Kleenex nearby. And I really did marvel at some of the child actors in this one...they were amazing. Though, once again, I should point out that this is one of the most painful films you could see....remember this when you choose to see the movie.
By the way, although I did enjoy the film and do haltingly recommend it, I was left wondering WHO created the fake eyebrows worn by Cameron Mitchell in the film. Could it have been Jim Henson?
- planktonrules
- 22 जन॰ 2020
- परमालिंक
We take for granted a lot of things in our lives. The struggle of the first settlers of this country is something we don't tend to think much about, yet, what these people endured during the XIX century, is something most of us, today, are not prepared to do, myself included.
The film is a sweet account to a Scottish family settling in Wisconsin. As directed by Alan Reisner, it makes us look into the past as this family decides to take root in a hostile environment. It was a surprise to hear the score by the great Max Steiner in the background, as it helps the film tremendously.
The acting by Cameron Mitchell, Glynis Johns, and the rest of the cast is predictable. The children are wonderful, as they decide to continue the legacy of their parents.
The film is a sweet account to a Scottish family settling in Wisconsin. As directed by Alan Reisner, it makes us look into the past as this family decides to take root in a hostile environment. It was a surprise to hear the score by the great Max Steiner in the background, as it helps the film tremendously.
The acting by Cameron Mitchell, Glynis Johns, and the rest of the cast is predictable. The children are wonderful, as they decide to continue the legacy of their parents.
This is a very affecting movie. I can't watch it for two minutes without crying. I always seem to catch the last few minutes of it but those have more meaning and human feeling than the vast majority of movies made recently. In my opinion, the oldest boy of the family is the main reason it's so good. I remember being jarred by his English accent when the other kids had none, but his touching performance and captivating looks soon overcame that problem. The first time I saw the movie, I couldn't believe anyone could be as strong as Robbie, I couldn't believe what was happening in the movie,and I kept waiting for the Hollywood ending that didn't come. After seeing the movie again today, I searched for the name of the boy, Rex Thompson, and was disappointed to see that his career ended quite some time ago. What a waste. I'd really like to know what happened to him.
- donnaleemartin
- 10 जुल॰ 2004
- परमालिंक
- jacobs-greenwood
- 1 दिस॰ 2016
- परमालिंक
I saw this movie in the theater back when it was new and then again when we used it at a Children's Christmas program at a small public library near the town where the author was from. Eureka, Wisconsin. It is an excelent presentation of frontier life and hardship like Old Yeller and Davy Crocket with the added touch of being about a local family in our area. I wish it were more available in video format or on DVD for this generation.
- mark.waltz
- 4 सित॰ 2016
- परमालिंक
When we were in high school and college, my sister and I used to watch this movie every time it came on TV. If it started at 3AM, we were there with our tissues! We watched it so many times, that I would start to cry even before any thing sad happens. My sister and I are trying to find a copy so we can share it with our daughters. So far I've found 14 Video stores nation-wide that still carry it, but I don't know yet if any of them will rent it to me via the mail. I'm hopeful though, because any one who has ever seen this special movie, never forgets it. I now have seven children of my own, and even though none of them have seen it, they all know the story, and the title. It's difficult to summarize ALL MINE TO GIVE, without giving the story away. If you see it once, you'll look forward to seeing it again and again. I don't think there is another movie of this type that elicits such a universal reaction from the viewers.
- steveaperry
- 16 अग॰ 2006
- परमालिंक
An unexpected heart-warming movie I first saw on a late night movie about 21 years ago. The scenes of life for a new family in America are touching. The trials and tribulations of this family lead to an extremely heart-wrenching finale. I scan the T.V. paper every week looking for this film and make a point of watching it every time it's on, therefore I've seen it over 10 times
It's 1856. Young couple, Robert and Mamie Eunson, arrives in Eureka, Wisconsin. They are new Scottish immigrants invited by her uncle, but he died three weeks earlier. They set out to build a life in the new world with help from friendly locals. It's the trials and tribulations of the Eunson family when tragedy leaves six young ones on their own.
This needs to get to the children alone a bit sooner. That seems to be the heart of the drama. It's well past the midway point before the kids are alone. After the initial section, that's the most compelling part of the movie. It is the heart of the matter and the movie needs to get there sooner. I would give more time for Robbie to develop as a character. It's a solid performance from the kid. He just needs more time as the lead.
This needs to get to the children alone a bit sooner. That seems to be the heart of the drama. It's well past the midway point before the kids are alone. After the initial section, that's the most compelling part of the movie. It is the heart of the matter and the movie needs to get there sooner. I would give more time for Robbie to develop as a character. It's a solid performance from the kid. He just needs more time as the lead.
- SnoopyStyle
- 24 दिस॰ 2023
- परमालिंक
- Christmas-Reviewer
- 15 जन॰ 2018
- परमालिंक
Such a story goes frankly and unblushingly for the tear ducts, but for some reason this one didn't quite get mine. There was some quality in the stoic big brother--or lacking in the stoic big brother--that just did not draw me in. Or perhaps when the tragedy is as blatant as it is here, my remove and reserve are self-protective. Anyway, if you really do go for stories about families dismantled child by child for everyone's own good, you should look for an old TV movie, "Who Will Love My Children," from 1983. It too is based on a true story, only the stoic in this case is the children's mother, dying from cancer, who decides to give her many children away while she's still living so that she can make sure they'll be in good homes. So she packs them off, one by one, to separate families, while her alcoholic and ineffective husband fumes impotently in the background. If you like tearjerkers, you'll love this one.
- Morganalee
- 3 सित॰ 2006
- परमालिंक
I've seen this once- many years ago, buried in a package of old movies the local station owned. For most of the way, it's a good, realistic view of frontier life, like something out of the Waltons or Little House on the Prairie. At the end, however, it becomes something much more special than that. I call the end of this film the "Rock Test". If you can watch it and not cry, you're a rock. The thing that makes it work is that it's not maudlin, just real and human. A rare gem, the sort of thing that makes it worth scanning the TV listings looking for it. Believe me, if you find it, it will be the best thing on the page.
The kids are the best actors, here. The kids are easy to relate to. You are bound to see shades of your own childhood in one or all of them.
This movie is heartwarming, heart-wrenching, thoughtful and hard not to like. It begs a person to search their heart. You will find yourself asking how strong mentally, morally and emotionally mature you could have been at the tender age of 12 or younger.
It will also make you appreciate how far we have come with our strides in Medicine. It should also give you a profound respect for those that went before that endured tougher times than we have or ever will see.
Think, "The Yearling" meets "The Little House on the Prairie".
This movie is heartwarming, heart-wrenching, thoughtful and hard not to like. It begs a person to search their heart. You will find yourself asking how strong mentally, morally and emotionally mature you could have been at the tender age of 12 or younger.
It will also make you appreciate how far we have come with our strides in Medicine. It should also give you a profound respect for those that went before that endured tougher times than we have or ever will see.
Think, "The Yearling" meets "The Little House on the Prairie".
- duchessofpercy
- 22 दिस॰ 2013
- परमालिंक
I took a quick look at the career of director Allen Reisner who worked at Studio One before taking on this feature film. Reisner went back to working mostly for television after All Mine To Give. But never in his career did he come close to doing anything as good as this film. Very few have.
All Mine To Give has become a Christmas classic in its own right as well received as It's A Wonderful Life. The story though is one of the most depressing you'll ever see and yet it's about an unconquerable spirit present even in our children.
The film is the story of the Eunson family, Scottish immigrants who settle in frontier Wisconsin in the 1850s. The parents are Cameron Mitchell and Glynis Johns who then raise five children, the oldest being Rex Thompson.
All Mine To Give while showing the Eunsons and most of the rest of their neighbors as decent folks is a no frills, uncompromising look at frontier life in those days. So many diseases we've conquered now were present back then. When both Mitchell and Johns fall to them the orphaned Eunson kids are left in a terrible fix. It's up to Thompson to decide their fates.
And this is all happening at Christmas time which has made All Mine To Give a staple on TCM in December. The story is based on a true incident at the time this story is taking place. It also is strikingly similar to what happened to Herbert Hoover and his two siblings when they were orphaned.
Such fine character players as Sylvia Field, Reta Shaw, Royal Dano, Alan Hale, Jr. play some of the townspeople. All Mine To Give will pull on so many emotions at once you'll be drained with a single viewing. Filmed during the last years of RKO Studios, All Mine To Give is a flawless holiday classic with a great story and a wonderful cast to tell it.
All Mine To Give has become a Christmas classic in its own right as well received as It's A Wonderful Life. The story though is one of the most depressing you'll ever see and yet it's about an unconquerable spirit present even in our children.
The film is the story of the Eunson family, Scottish immigrants who settle in frontier Wisconsin in the 1850s. The parents are Cameron Mitchell and Glynis Johns who then raise five children, the oldest being Rex Thompson.
All Mine To Give while showing the Eunsons and most of the rest of their neighbors as decent folks is a no frills, uncompromising look at frontier life in those days. So many diseases we've conquered now were present back then. When both Mitchell and Johns fall to them the orphaned Eunson kids are left in a terrible fix. It's up to Thompson to decide their fates.
And this is all happening at Christmas time which has made All Mine To Give a staple on TCM in December. The story is based on a true incident at the time this story is taking place. It also is strikingly similar to what happened to Herbert Hoover and his two siblings when they were orphaned.
Such fine character players as Sylvia Field, Reta Shaw, Royal Dano, Alan Hale, Jr. play some of the townspeople. All Mine To Give will pull on so many emotions at once you'll be drained with a single viewing. Filmed during the last years of RKO Studios, All Mine To Give is a flawless holiday classic with a great story and a wonderful cast to tell it.
- bkoganbing
- 31 अक्टू॰ 2012
- परमालिंक
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.
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.
(1956) All Mine To Give
DRAMA
Adapted from the novel "The Day They Gave Babies Away" by Dale Eunson based on a true story about foreigner's husband, Robert and his wife, Mamie Eunson immigrating from Scotland. And upon them settling down on Wisconsin, USA during the 1800's is when they begin their struggles while living there with their six children. What audiences will see at the beginning would explain itself toward the end.
Unbelievable storytelling on a family's struggles, with so much bad luck and unfortunate circumstances that could have been anyone for it needs to be seen to be believed.
Adapted from the novel "The Day They Gave Babies Away" by Dale Eunson based on a true story about foreigner's husband, Robert and his wife, Mamie Eunson immigrating from Scotland. And upon them settling down on Wisconsin, USA during the 1800's is when they begin their struggles while living there with their six children. What audiences will see at the beginning would explain itself toward the end.
Unbelievable storytelling on a family's struggles, with so much bad luck and unfortunate circumstances that could have been anyone for it needs to be seen to be believed.
- jordondave-28085
- 14 अक्टू॰ 2023
- परमालिंक
This movie is the most heart-wrenching movie I have ever seen, and I will never forget it. I first saw the movie in a parochial grade school in the early 1960s. The nuns thought it would be good for us; and it was. This movie has stayed in the front of my mind for all of my life. The memories evoke emotions in everyday life allowing more compassion towards others in terrible plights. This movie truly shows human emotion so strong one thinks it is real. The acting is superb!! I still get shivers when I think of what one child alone in the world had to face, both physically and emotionally. I don't think I could have been that courageous. No special effects needed here - bring a hankie!!
- foxslippers
- 21 मई 2004
- परमालिंक
Mine all mine. In delicious Technicolor. no real big stars in here. A family tries to survive out in the wild west in the 1860s, but tragedies keep happening. Glynis Johns (born in south africa) is "Jo". trying to raise the family in the old west. filmed in scenic Oregon and California. Alan Hale Junior (Skipperrrrr !) is in here as "Tom". Ellen Corby ( Waltons) is Mrs. Raiden. it's all just very okay. the determined scottish couple raises a family in the midwest, but tragedies keep knocking them down. Directed by Allen Reisner, his first film ! and one of the few full length films he made. Story by Dale Eunson... since the story takes place in the 1800s, it's possible that this story is from his family history, but he himself was born in 1904. it's pretty hokey, but entertaining enough. some ethnic issues from the time, but it IS a period piece... Scotsman versus Irishman. shows on Turner Classics now and then.
I first saw this movie in 1958 by accident. We had gone to an "arts" theater to see another film and were not aware of its being a double feature. AMTG was shown first. Immediately at the close of the film the theater lights went up and nobody was getting up or doing much of anything: mostly looking at their shoelaces or whatever would keep them (us) from making eye contact. I actually heard some sobs. To this day when I attempt to tell someone about "the saddest movie ever made" I choke up at the end. That was the only time I've ever seen the movie and I so much want to share it with someone before I die. It was a beautiful, wondrously poignant experience and I will carry it in my heart forever. Surely they will release it on DVD someday.
- richardcates
- 16 अग॰ 2006
- परमालिंक