ridiculous rating

Blending excellent reporting and strong storytelling, this is a disturbing film truly stranger than fiction

Excellent characters with emotional depth. My wife, daughter and granddaughter all enjoyed it...and me, too! Very good movie! You won't be disappointed.

Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

Cameron Mitchell's Scottish accent in All Mine to Give is amongst the worst you will ever hear in a motion picture. That's about all you need to know about this film, an otherwise passable story of Scots immigrants adapting to life in Wisconsin circa 1850. Determinedly studio bound, this RKO production manages to make the most of Albert D'Agostino's art direction to tell its tale of harsh times in the frozen upper mid-west. Unfortunately, it's all for naught: Mitchell is absolutely appalling and a terrible distraction whenever he opens his mouth. It's a pleasure, however, to watch the Bad Seed herself, Patty McCormack, in a non-evil-incarnate role--though if I were her, I'd have been tempted to push Cameron into a nearby lake in order to put an end to his horrible accent.

I remember this movie as a child in 4th grade. It was the first time that I had ever experience real emotions watching a film. Like a lot of the viewers here I saw the movie at school. As I look back now it makes me grin. I remember when the lights came on everyone was crying, that including the school teachers. I've seen the film only once more since way back then "1962" and it still had the same effect.I would highly recommend this film to everyone who enjoys a good family type movie. In the beginning I thought that the movie might be about life in a forest and the creatures that they might encounter, or someone being lost. I never expected anything happening to either of the parents. I've seen many many movies in my life, I own over 3500 films and I have never seen a movie that moved me as much as this one. It's one of the best tear jerking movies that I have ever ever seen. Parents should watch it with their kids.

CAMERON MITCHELL and GLYNIS JOHNS are young newlyweds trying to find their place on arrival in Wisconsin as Scottish immigrants. They're soon pioneering with him finding work as a logger (thanks to bossman ALAN HALE, JR.) and gradually start raising a family of six children.Some charming moments as the kids grow and interact with parents and neighbors, but then the soap suds angle gets the upper hand in the script. First the youngest son gets diphtheria but recovers. Then the father becomes ill but fails to survive the illness. And finally, the brood of children are left orphaned when their mother dies of typhoid fever.The last third of the film has the youngest son promising his dying mother that he'll find good parents for the kids instead of sending them off to an orphanage and the Christmas theme works nicely here in time for a happy ending.It's a bit schmaltzy at times--a sort of poverty story a la A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN with a different setting--but at times it has the ability to hook you into the story and really care about those kids. Among them, blonde PATTY McCORMACK stands out although given little to do. REX THOMPSON does a nice job as the "man of the family" who fulfills his mother's wish in finding families to take the kids.Summing up: Nice, but could have been a lot better with a finer cast and director. Too predictable right up until the end.

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.