All Mine to Give (The Day They Gave Babies Away) (1956)

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Release Date: Jan 1, 1956 Wide

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Glynis Johns and Cameron Mitchell are top-billed in All Mine to Give, but they're out of the picture halfway through. Johns and Mitchell play a Scottish couple, Mamie and Robert, living in the American wilderness of the mid-19th century. Robert dies, whereupon Mamie takes on the responsibility of raising their six children. And when she succumbs to illness, it is the oldest child, Robbie (Rex Thompson, who'd previously played Louis Leonowens in The King And I), who takes on the challenge of

PG, 1 hr. 42 min.

Drama, Classics

Directed By: Allen Reisner

In Theaters: Jan 1, 1956 Wide

On DVD: Nov 11, 2008

Warner Home Video

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Cast

Glynis Johns
Mamie
Cameron Mitchell
Robert
Rex Thompson
Robbie
Patty McCormack
Annabella
Ernest Truex
Dr. Delbert
Hope Emerson
Mrs. Pugmire
Alan Hale Jr.
Tom Cullen
Sylvia Field
Lelia Delbert
Royal Dano
Howard Tyler
Reta Shaw
Mrs. Runyon
Stephen Wootton
Jimmie
Butch Bernard
Kirk
Rita Johnson
Katie Tyler
Ellen Corby
Mrs. Raiden
Rosalyn Boulter
Mrs. Stephens
Francis De Sales
Mr. Stephens
Jon Provost
Bobbie

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One of the strangest, most off-putting Christmas-themed tearjerkers ever conceived.

December 11, 2008 Full Review Source: DVDTalk.com

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Number 2 in my quest to see 30 Christmas Films by Christmas Day. Had never heard of this one in my years of TV watching during h season and wondered why. Was it the teaching of Christian values. Made in 1957 its about a man and women who move to Wisconsin from the Faroe Islands. Shows their life and raising 7 children,

November 13, 2010