All Mine to Give

Actors: Butch Bernard, Rosalyn Boulter, Ellen Corby, Royal Dano, Francis De Sales
Studio: Turner Home Ent
Category: DVD

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Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars 10 reviews
Sales Rank: 18500

Format: Color, Dvd-video, Original Recording Remastered, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 102 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.3 x 0.5

MPN: WARD033342D
UPC: 053939790221
EAN: 0053939790221
ASIN: B001CW801G

Theatrical Release Date: 1956
Release Date: November 11, 2008
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5 out of 5 stars Holiday Staple    January 1, 2009
David Baldwin (Philadelphia,PA USA)
This film is definitely a buried treasure and deserves to be discovered and placed in the pantheon with "The Bishop's Wife" and "It's a Wonderful Life" as essential holiday viewing. The makers of the film are working with tricky material and succeed in capturing your heart. Some would dismiss the film as mawkish and overly sentimental but I did not feel the least bit manipulated. Whatever tears the movie engenders are earned. Be forewarned that it's tough viewing at times but you will feel rewarded having seen this film.


5 out of 5 stars All Mine To Give DVD    December 16, 2008
C. Birchem (MN)
I love this movie! Waited years for it to come out on DVD!
Excellant story, very moving. Would recommend for anyone.


5 out of 5 stars WONDROUSLY MAUDLIN HOLIDAY CLASSIC    December 15, 2008
N. Thomas
2 out of 2 found this review helpful

WARNING, SPOILERS, etc.

This DVD's cover art, which is original to the movie's release over fifty years ago, has a tagline that reads: "Six kids on a true and wonderful adventure!" This is one of the most misleading teasers in cinematic public relations history. It has the reader imagining a sextuplet of young ones perhaps sledding on particularly icy mountains or facing down some Scrooge-like, anti-Christmas archnemesis. In fact, it's about children losing both parents to highly contagious diseases and having their family rent permanently asunder.

This tale is based on a true-life story set in Wisconsin. Robert and Mamie Eunson (Cameron Mitchell and Glynis Johns) are Scots who have just landed in America (the year is 1856), having been invited there by Mamie's uncle. They arrive in the tiny logging village of Eureka, only to be informed that both uncle and his cabin have been incinerated in a house fire. The Eunsons are assisted by the friendly locals in reconstructing the house and Robert takes to tipping timber. It should be noted Mamie is heavily pregnant upon their reaching Eureka; she delivers baby Robbie soon after the cabin is completed. Robert eventually starts a successful boat building business and Mamie gives birth to five more children: Jimmy, Kirk, Annabelle, Elizabeth, and Jane. The Eunsons are prospering and happy--until little Kirk is diagnosed with diptheria. Mamie and Kirk are quarantined while Robert takes the other children away. The boy recovers, but the goodbye kiss he gave Dadda before his departure proves fatal, and Mr. Eunson succumbs.

Mamie takes to working as a seamstress and Robbie becomes the man of the house. Things stabilize, but only briefly: tired and work-worn, Mamie contracts typhoid. Knowing she won't survive, she charges her eldest with finding good homes for his siblings. After her death, Robbie does exactly that, dispatching his brothers and sisters to kindly townsfolk. Stoic and resigned during the process, he does break down when he's alone and sees the tree outside the homestead where his father had carved the names of the children into the bark. Baby Jane is the last to be handed over--Robbie stands at the door of a house and asks the woman who answers, "Will you take my sister, ma'am?" Pathos, lachrymose, mourning, and gloom! (It reminds me that in Great Britain, this movie was released under the title The Day They Gave Babies Away...*gulp*!)

He then turns and trudges, solitary and struggling, up a hill in a snowstorm. You may ask, "What does this horribly sad tale have to do with Christmas?" Robbie is breaking up the clan on Christmas Eve, wisely thinking people are more likely to accept taking in an orphan while filled with the holiday spirit.

I remember having my grade school show this film when I was a kid and half the auditorium was weeping openly by the end. While many people would avoid something this maudlin during a time of year we're enjoined to be merry and bright, I find it triumphant and warm-hearted. Trade a viewing of this classic release for one of the bubble-gum, toothless cinematic confections Hollywood releases every year in December...


5 out of 5 stars all mine to give    December 8, 2008
Ailton (New Jersey, USA)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful

All Mine to GiveI first sought this movie when I was about 14 years old. Today I'm 55 and still have it in my head as the best movie ever. My older brother and I cried every time during the five times we sought this movie on TV back home in Brazil. I looked for it under it's name in portuguese " em cada coracao uma saudade^ which has nothing to do with the original title, but it gave me the name in english ( thanks to the internet ). I want to see it again, in english this time, to see how much I cry. I will get my 15 year old daughter and her friends to watch this with me to see their reaction compared to mine some forty years ago. I highly recommend this. If it stayed in my mind for forty years, it must be great.


5 out of 5 stars I love this movie    December 7, 2008
Lorraine Brutsman (Boise, Idaho USA)
I first found this movie on Turner Classic Movies and missed the beginning so I did not know the name of it for years. When my sister finally found the title, I quickly found the autobiographical book and made reading the book a holiday tradition in my family. A co-worker just told me that it was released on DVD this year and I will buy a copy for my (now grown) children's homes so they can also make it a holiday tradition. This movie touches the length that love will go to. It's is an amazing true story and I love it that much.