All Mine to Give

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 ...more

All Mine to Give is an unashamedly manipulative tearjerker, the kind that will appall those who approach it with a critical eye and will totally consume those who are willing to give in to its powerful manipulations. From a critical standpoint, there's plenty to object to in Give. The filmmakers ceaselessly and obviously are attempting to reach into the audience's heart and tear it out; they want buckets of tears and will stop at no contrivance to wring the last drop out of a viewer. The ...more