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All Mine to Give (1957) DVD5 - A Christmastime Story [DDR]
All Mine to Give (British title: The Day They Gave Babies Away) is a 1957 Technicolor melodrama film starring Glynis Johns, Cameron Mitchell, and Rex Thompson. When first one parent, then the other dies, six children have to look after themselves in the American west of the mid-19th century.
This story is based on a true-life story set in Wisconsin, based on an article The Day They Gave Babies Away by Dale Eunson and Katherine (Albert) Eunson, which first appeared in the December 1946 issue of Cosmopolitan Magazine.
A year later, the story would be published as a book with the same title. Original US TV version The Day They Gave Babies Away, starring Brandon deWilde, aired on the CBS anthology show Climax! on December 22, 1955.
Eunson and his wife Katherine also went on to write the screenplay for the movie adaptation.
The exteriors of the film were filmed in Big Bear, California, Idyllwild, California and Mt. Hood, Oregon.
CAST:-
Glynis Johns as Mamie
Cameron Mitchell as Robert
Rex Thompson as Robbie
Patty McCormack as Annabelle
Ernest Truex as Doctor Delbert
Hope Emerson as Mrs. Pugmire
Alan Hale, Jr. as Tom Cullen
Sylvia Field as Lelia Delbert
Royal Dano as Howard Tyler
Reta Shaw as Mrs. Runyon
Stephen Wootton as Jimmy
Butch Bernard as Kirk
Yolanda White as Elizabeth
Rita Johnson as Katie Tyler
Ellen Corby as Mrs. Raiden
Rosalyn Boulter as Mrs. Stephens
Francis De Sales as Mr. Stephens
Jon Provost as Robbie Eunson - age 6
Directed by Allen Reisner
Produced by Sam Wiesenthal
Written by Katherine Albert, Dale Eunson
Narrated by Rex Thompson
SYNOPSIS:- All Mine to Give (1957)
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.
Mamie is heavily pregnant upon their reaching Eureka; she delivers baby Robbie (Rex Thompson ) soon after the cabin is completed. Robert eventually starts a successful boat building business and Mamie gives birth to five more children: Jimmy (Stephen Wootton), Kirk (Butch Bernard), Annabelle (Patty McCormack), Elizabeth (Yolanda White), and Jane (Terry Ann Ross). The Eunsons are prospering and happy—until little Kirk is diagnosed with diphtheria. Mamie and Kirk are quarantined while Robert takes the other children away. The boy recovers, but the goodbye kiss Kirk gave his Dadda before his departure proves fatal, and Robert 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 will not survive, she charges Robbie, her eldest, with finding good homes for his siblings. After Mamie's death, Robbie places his brothers and sisters with kindly townsfolk as Christmas approaches. Stoic and resigned during the process, he does break down when he is 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, "Please, ma'am, I was wondering if you'd care to have my sister."
           
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS:-
Video Codec: MPEG-2
Video Bitrate: 4999 kbps
Video Resolution: 720x480
Video Aspect Ratio: 1.333:1
Frames Per Second: 29.970
Audio Codec: AC3
Audio Bitrate: 192kb/s CBR 48000 Hz
Audio Streams: 2
Audio Languages:English
RunTime 102 mins
Subtitles: Francais
Ripped by: Trinidad [DDR]
Duration: 102 mins |
