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Film · Disney · 1957

Old Yeller

Name: Old Yeller scores 69 — Live Historic
Item: Old Yeller
Rating: 69
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69Worth an evening.

Do not put it on by accident. The love is real, and the last duty is the point.

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The review

The father leaves to drive cattle, and the older boy is told the farm is his job. A yellow dog arrives, wrecks things, and becomes the boy's. I am not going to soften the ending. The dog is sick with something that will kill the family if the boy will not do what has to be done. The mother does not steal the act from him. The act is his because the responsibility was already his.

Do not put this on for a small child who was not told. Do put it on, when a child is old enough, as a story about love that is not the highest good in a house. The country's children in 1957 were not protected from that sentence, and the sentence is sound. Cry. Then ask who the boy was protecting. The answer is not the dog. A house that can say that can be trusted with the film.

Journal

Keep Old Yeller in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 69. Yours can differ.

The glance

Republic is the thin one.

Does anyone owe a neighbor, a law, or a town — or is every person out for themselves?

This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.

Consider this

To Kill a Mockingbird

81 instead of 69

To Kill a Mockingbird is still a drama film, and it scores 81 instead of 69. What you gain is republic: A town on trial along with a man.

The eight

7
Industry
A farm without the father home is work, and the boy is given the work.
8
Household
A mother, a younger brother, and the dog are the household he is suddenly responsible for.
5
Piety
The duty at the end is treated as grave, not as a shock for its own sake.
8
Courage
He does the thing he does not want to do, because the people in the house come first.
4
Republic
The public is a sparse settlement. The debt is to the family in reach.
7
Temperance
Love of the dog is not allowed to outrank the safety of the brothers.
8
Truth
The disease is real. The film does not invent a mercy the facts will not give.
8
Stewardship
A child inherits love and a duty that can cost the thing you love. Both.

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Film · Italy · 1916

Cenere

69Worth an evening.

A mother sees the son she gave up and leaves, so she will not ruin his life.

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The review

She gave him up, and then she sees him again. A mother, a son, and a choice not to ruin the life he has. Eleanora Duse's only film. Italian, 1916, not an American gross. The face is why the picture was made. A house can watch it. I watched it hoping I would leave a hard meeting that cleanly, and I am not sure I would.

The leaving is the mercy. She does not spend his life to ease the meeting. That is a household doing a hard thing, not a famous face collecting a bow. The camera came for the face. I would keep the mercy. If the kids are up, the line is short: she meets him, and she will not break what he already has.

Journal

Keep Cenere in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 69. Yours can differ.

The glance

Industry and Republic are the thin ones.

Does anyone here do a real job, and does that job matter?

This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.

Consider this

Enoch Arden

79 instead of 69

Enoch Arden is still a drama film, and it scores 79 instead of 69. What you gain is industry: He is a sailor, and that wrecked work is why the years pass.