You command your way (film)

Movie
German title	You command your ways
Original title	All mine to give
Country of production	United States
original language	English
Publishing year	1957
length	100 minutes
Age rating	FSK 6
Rod
Director	Allen Reisner
script	Dale Eunson Katherine Eunson
production	Sam Wiesenthal
music	Max Steiner
camera	William V. Skall
cut	Bettie Mosher
occupation
Glynis Johns : Mamie - German voice: Margot Leonard - Cameron Mitchell : Robert - German voice: Paul Edwin Roth - Rex Thompson : Robbie Patty McCormack : Annabelle Ernest Truex : Doctor Delbert Hope Emerson : Mrs. Pugmeister Alan Hale junior : Tom Cullen - German voice: Arnold Marquis - Sylvia Field : Lelia Delbert Royal Dano : Howard Tyler Reta Shaw : Mrs. Runyon Stephen Wootton : Jimmy Butch Bernard : Kirk Yolanda White : Elizabeth Rita Johnson : Katie Tyler Ellen Corby : Mrs. Raiden Rosalyn Boulter : Mrs. Stephens Francis De Sales : Mr. Stephens Jon Provost : Robbie Eunson at age 6

Befiehl du your ways (Original title: All Mine to Give ) is an American feature film directed by Allen Reisner from 1957 and based on a true life story in Wisconsin entitled The Day They Gave Babies Away by Dale Eunson and Katherine Eunson, the first appeared in the December 1946 issue of Cosmopolitan . The melodrama depicts the fate of six children who, after the death of their parents, have to look after themselves in the American west of the 19th century.

action

Robert and Mamie Eunson come from Scotland and were invited by Mamie's uncle in 1856 and therefore emigrated to America. They arrive in the tiny logging village of Eureka and now they learn that the uncle recently burned to death in his hut. The friendly locals are helping the Eunsons to rebuild the house. Mamie is heavily pregnant when they reach Eureka and soon, as soon as the hut has been rebuilt, her son Robbie is born. Robert initially works as a woodcutter, later he starts a successful boat building business. Mamie has five more children: Jimmy, Kirk, Annabelle, Elizabeth, and Jane. Everything is going well when little Kirk suddenly falls ill with diphtheria . Mamie and Kirk are quarantined, while Robert has to look after himself and the other children on his own. The boy fortunately recovers, but the kiss Kirk gave his father before he left is fatal for Robert and he dies.

Mamie now works as a seamstress and Robbie, as the eldest, becomes the head of the family. The situation stabilized only for a short time, then Mamie fell ill with typhus . Knowing that she will not survive, she hires her eldest son Robbie to find a good home for his siblings. After his mother's death, Robbie takes his brothers and sisters up with friendly people in town on Christmas Day. Resigned, he brings Baby Jane to a house as the last of the siblings. After Robbie knocks on the door, he asks: "Please, ma'am, I was wondering if you want my sister."

background

You command your way was filmed in Mount Hood National Park in Oregon , as well as in Big Bear and Idyllwild in California and was shown for the first time in the USA on November 13, 1957.

criticism

The zweiausendeins.de/filmlexikon rated: "Sentimental family film, whose noticeable sympathy for the well-portrayed characters conceals some formal deficiencies."

Web links

• Commit your ways you at the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Command your way on Internet Movie Database , accessed January 13, 2018.
2. ↑ You command your way. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed January 13, 2018 .