The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

Worth seeing just to witness how winsome it is.

The kids are the best actors, here. The kids are easy to relate to. You are bound to see shades of your own childhood in one or all of them. This movie is heartwarming, heart-wrenching, thoughtful and hard not to like. It begs a person to search their heart. You will find yourself asking how strong mentally, morally and emotionally mature you could have been at the tender age of 12 or younger. It will also make you appreciate how far we have come with our strides in Medicine. It should also give you a profound respect for those that went before that endured tougher times than we have or ever will see.Think, "The Yearling" meets "The Little House on the Prairie".

I remember this movie as a child in 4th grade. It was the first time that I had ever experience real emotions watching a film. Like a lot of the viewers here I saw the movie at school. As I look back now it makes me grin. I remember when the lights came on everyone was crying, that including the school teachers. I've seen the film only once more since way back then "1962" and it still had the same effect.I would highly recommend this film to everyone who enjoys a good family type movie. In the beginning I thought that the movie might be about life in a forest and the creatures that they might encounter, or someone being lost. I never expected anything happening to either of the parents. I've seen many many movies in my life, I own over 3500 films and I have never seen a movie that moved me as much as this one. It's one of the best tear jerking movies that I have ever ever seen. Parents should watch it with their kids.

I love Glynnis Johns and I have always thought Cameron Mitchell was a very handsome man and a pretty good actor, so I don't know how I have missed this movie all these years. This is a tear-jerker if there ever was one. Yes, you keep waiting for that Hollywood ending but you finally realize it isn't going to turn out that way. Back in those days,loosing both parents was not so uncommon as it is today, but there was usually family to take the kids, at least the youngest ones. This one was so sad because the mother told the boy to decide where to place the children, and he did everything in his power to fulfill her last wishes. It is so powerful because it was told through his eyes as an adult. Maybe the producers should have added one more scene (like they did with Casablanca) - one where all the children finally get back together. As Robbie marched off over that hill pulling that sled, I wasn't crying, but I was very close to it. And no, they don't make them like this anymore. I, for one, enjoyed it immensely.

I first saw this movie in 1958 by accident. We had gone to an "arts" theater to see another film and were not aware of its being a double feature. AMTG was shown first. Immediately at the close of the film the theater lights went up and nobody was getting up or doing much of anything: mostly looking at their shoelaces or whatever would keep them (us) from making eye contact. I actually heard some sobs. To this day when I attempt to tell someone about "the saddest movie ever made" I choke up at the end. That was the only time I've ever seen the movie and I so much want to share it with someone before I die. It was a beautiful, wondrously poignant experience and I will carry it in my heart forever. Surely they will release it on DVD someday.