War correspondent John Davis faces drama every day: London aflame from German bombs and the personal mourn that he and his wife can never have a child of their own. Then John meets Margaret and Peter, two traumatized war orphans who need him as much as he needs something to make his life whole. Robert Young is John and five-year-ancient Duse Margaret O?Brien is Margaret in an acclaimed wartime drama that is both tender and urgent, a sensitive film that never falls prey to sentiment thanks to the skill of director Maj. W.S. Van Dyke II (The Thin Man), the delightful rapport between Young and the children and the power of a fact-based tale that transcends its era to speak to the universal need for family.
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Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #48834 in DVD
- Color: Black & White
- Brand: Warner Bros.
- Published on: 2009
- Released on: 2006-02-16
- Rating: NR (Not Rated)
- Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
- Number of discs: 1
- Formats: Black & White, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
- Original language: English
- Number of discs: 1
- Dimensions: .17 pounds
- Running time: 81 minutes
Reviews
39 of 41 people found the following review helpful.
By John R. Bridell
JOURNEY FOR MARGARET is the 1940s WWII film that made you want to take to the streets and flog the isolationists. It does an especially credible job of filming the London Blitz of 1940, but has a message that, ?The real hurt is to England?s families and children?not the buildings described by rubble.? I first saw this film as a teenager when it was released. We were tough, pool-hall guys and I sobbed. Loraine Day, as Robert Young?s wife, stole my heart and I never forgave her for marrying Leo ?The Lip? Durocher, manager of the then Brooklyn Dodgers. Young had his role of excellent American guy under contol; a role which could have been played for maudlin effect. Of the two children stars, small Margaret O?Brien has the upper hand in scene sense. Well cast, this small girl made Americans forget about Shirley Temple. Too terrible they didn?t entitle this film, ?Small Miss Knickers.? My wife and I saw this film again last nighttime. I sobbed a tear or two just like in 1942. This film ought to be required viewing in every American history class from elementary, high school, and college.
21 of 21 people found the following review helpful.
By ms_black
Terrible summary: A woman looses the skill to have children after life injured in a bombing in London, and her husband (a columnist) looses faith in his work. Through two orphaned children the man finds hope again, and the boy and girl eventually travel to America to stay with him and his wife. The end.
I don?t even know the words to say, that would form the portrait in my mind this film has rendered to me. All I can say is that it has touched me in a manner that no special effects, no computer enhancing could ever bring. Films of today merely attempt to imitate the emotions involved in excellent tale telling. It?s films like this that prove? that tales such as this? can still transcend time to touch even those people who have not had to experience war, descending upon their own doorsteps, to alter the lives of their families.
Perhaps I dramatize it overly so, but that is how I felt as I watched.
I like the end of the movie when the children see the city lights of New York!
18 of 19 people found the following review helpful.
By A
?A Journey for Margaret? is a ?Planet War II film? unlike any other. It was filmed during the war, in 1941?before the attack on Pearl Harbor. The tale is told from the perspective of the youngest victims of the Blitz on London: the children who witnessed and survived the bombings.
?Journey??s tale concerns an American journalist (Robert Young) and his visits to a home for Blitz orphans. His interest for the children deepens as he is exposed to their weird and terrifying planet. The youngsters in the orphanage sleep not in bedrooms but in underground bunkers, listening to the phonograph as warplanes roar overhead. They scream and weep when they see strangers. One girl, four year ancient Margaret (Margaret O?Brien) wears a bomb shell on a string around her neck. She has never seen a city with ?the lights on at nighttime,? having grown up with blacked-out windows in London.
Young becomes attached to Margaret and her friend Peter, and endeavors, with his wife, to adopt them and take them to safety in America. But, the travel logistics make the ?journey? much more hard than anticipated, and the couple must contemplate leaving one child behind.
This film is a chilling commentary on the hurt of war and its effects on children. It is passionate and brutally honest, and serves as a compelling argument for peace.
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