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CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS AND THE CINEMA
the village school but he was German, he had to fight for Germany. Now he is back however, and the padre thinking it to be the will of God tells everyone that the corporal is not an enemy. The film here emphasizes the leniency after the last war shown to the Germans, and the vital mistake made.
18. T.S.
Now that so many purely fantastic films are being made I was very glad to see a trueto-life film which I thoroughly enjoyed — namely The Sullivans .
This, was I think, an excellently produced film about a mother and father and their five sons. It begins at the christening of the children, and takes you right along till their deaths. Some parts were extremely funny others — well, just everyday things that occur to all normal families containing schoolboys, and some parts were very moving, although even then, they were things that might happen to anyone in wartime.
The producer — I cannot remember his name — must have been a man who had at one time been just an ordinary working class man — living among such people as the film was centred upon.
One incident in the film I remember very clearly; the five boys — at the time the youngest was about five years old and the oldest about thirteen — 'took' to smoking behind their father's back; when their father caught them they were each given half a cigar and ordered — yes, even the youngest! — to smoke them. After about five minutes they all felt so sick that they could hardly manage to get upstairs to the bathroom. Well some people might not find this so amusing but I have a small brother, and often he gets up to the same pranks as those boys!
Like most small boys, the five of them wanted to be sailors. The war began. What a chance for them. Oh! — but I forget — the youngest was married; just an ordinary attractive young girl but — how could he leave her — and his baby.
The day when he saw his brothers go, he had to go with them — they'd always stuck together — they mustn't break apart when the country needed them. All aboard the same ship one brother was injured; not even thinking of their own danger, the other four tried to get their brother off the ship which was sinking fast — but they weren't quick enough and they all died. The reason? Because they stuck together! Later a ship was named after them The Fighting Sullivans.
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