All Mine to Give

All Mine to Give (1957)

SIX KIDS ON A TRUE AND WONDERFUL ADVENTURE!

This is a story based on fact that follows a husband and wife who emigrate from Scotland to Wisconsin in the 1850s. They work very hard and become welcome citizens of their new town, Eureka. They have six children. They prosper in the husband's boat-building business. But when their eldest is 12, tragedy strikes the family, and the 12-year-old is burdened with a terrible task which he handles as well as any adult could.

Date of release
1957-11-13
TMDB
6.3 / 10 (25)
Runtime
1h 43m
Genres
Drama, Romance, Family
Director
Allen Reisner

Casting

Interesting facts

All Mine to Give is a 1957 Technicolor melodrama film directed by Allen Reisner and starring Glynis Johns, Cameron Mitchell, and Rex Thompson. When first one parent, then the other, dies, their six children have to look after themselves in the Wisconsin of the mid-19th century.

Production

The film is based on an article "The Day They Gave Babies Away," by Dale Eunson and his wife Katherine Albert, which first appeared in the December 1946 issue of Cosmopolitan. The article is about a true-life story in Wisconsin. Dale Eunson is the son of the story's protagonist, Robert Eunson. A year later, the story was published as a book of the same title.

Although the film is set in Eureka, Wisconsin, exteriors were filmed in Big Bear, California, Idyllwild, California and Mount Hood, Oregon.

Eureka, Wisconsin is a city in Winnebago County, Wisconsin. It is not situated in Polk County. It sets approximately 8 miles NE of Berlin Wisconsin, of which a reference is made by Robbie in the film "All Mine To Give".

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