Directed by Roy RowlandMy rating: 2.5 stars out of 4
IMDb
(Turner Classic Movies)
Edward G. Robinson is a father in rural Wisconsin raising young Margaret O'Brien. It's more or less a typical farmer's life, and the movie seems content with its slow and uneventful depiction. Little O'Brien is perhaps a bit precocious and can be irritating. There is some dark foreshadowing of things to come: the death of a squirrel for instance. The hammer eventually falls on a neighbor's barn, and many animals are killed. The moral learned is not to covet things you can't have and don't need. Occasionally endearing Americana is undercut by a formulaic presentation.
IMDb
(Turner Classic Movies)
Edward G. Robinson is a father in rural Wisconsin raising young Margaret O'Brien. It's more or less a typical farmer's life, and the movie seems content with its slow and uneventful depiction. Little O'Brien is perhaps a bit precocious and can be irritating. There is some dark foreshadowing of things to come: the death of a squirrel for instance. The hammer eventually falls on a neighbor's barn, and many animals are killed. The moral learned is not to covet things you can't have and don't need. Occasionally endearing Americana is undercut by a formulaic presentation.
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