My Mum played the Lawrence Olivier recording to me when I was about 4 years old. I bawled like a baby every time. I tear up even now just thinking about it. I am 67.
I just watched this film for the first time in 50 years, and had the same reaction I did when I first saw it...it's just as poignant today as it was then, and just as emotional.
You can't beat Richard Harris co-starring opposite anybody ... even a snow goose. Despite all his accolades, the most underrated cinema actor the world has yet known.
@@stephenlaing2152 Agreed, more genuine. George Lucas handpicked director Irvin Kershner to direct 'Empire Strikes Back' due to the genuine realistic quality Kershner had brought to 'Return of a Man Called Horse.'
I read the book before I saw the film, but the casting was just perfect. I still have that book, secondhand when I bought it and I still read it every couple of years. It is just so moving and it's one of those books I will never dispose of!
One of my favourite books. One of my favourite movies. I read this annually always around Remembrance Day and the tears always accompany the reading. A hauntingly beautiful and simple film with its starkness and music.
This was aired on TV in Australia about 1972, I was 11 years old and cried like a baby of course, I never forgot this film for so many reasons, about to watch it again...with tissues nearby!
The layers in this film, and in the Paul Gallico book are myriad and complex. How wonderful, and how special to see it. It is a poor quality copy, but the only one out there. Thanks for posting. No product placement, no car chases, no one on the movie poster pointing a gun at you. There's no comedy relief scene where she teaches him how to dance or try to be as care free as she is. No one's spouting tag lines for sound bites.
Reading Paul Gallico is even more imaginatively rewarding than watching a limited dimensional movie. The mind is free to fill so many gaps. 'The Man Who Was Magic' with the talking dog is so unusually entertaining.
Finally found..... I was only a child when I saw this movie, but I did not know its name, not its actors, nothing, only memories about the last sad scene when she goes away with the painting. ... How great is Internet!!!!... I never did give up, had to write and write questions to google, dates of drama movies of 60´s, 70´s, even 80´s, though I knew it was a old movie. But at last I got it. Thanks for share it, .. salute from Chile, land of Lighthouses.... !!!
This brings back memories. Along with my Lambretta-riding pals, I watched the 'lighthouse' structure being built atop a wartime pillbox at the end of Island Lane, near Kirby-le-Soken, Essex. We also saw a smoke machine creating the foggy scene with Richard Harris. The structure was taken down immediately after filming. I understand some other scenes were shot at nearby Landermere. It must have been the summer of 1971.
I first heard this when I was 6 years old (a 78rpm record).....Just as this movie brings a lump to my throat and touches my heart, so did that recording: a beautiful story of the strength and gentleness of love that bonds creatures and humans.
I must say, every movie a watched with Jennifer Agutter in it was insanely good. Just the other day i watched Walkabout for the first time and was absolutely blown away by it.
This movie is a great piece of art. Unlike the book, which is the forest, this movie is the tree. And it is a majestic specimen. The pacing is quick, but is handled deftly, like a master watercolorist. We feel the emotional tug between Harris and Agutter, but the goose keeps the whole thing pure and noble. 3 creatures, 'orphaned' from the rest of their families, come together in a unique way. The results are joyous and devastatingly sad, but beautiful. Richard Harris was asked about the great roles he played, late in his life, and of course he cited Lear, Oedipus, other classics. But The Snow Goose was right at the top of his list. His performance is nuanced and unforgettable. It is a privilege to have seen this film again, now an old man, to remind me how good the world can actually be.
In 1971, when our oldest daughter was 5, she sat in my lap while we watched this, both with tears streaming down our faces. (I will have to try this again later, I couldn't get past the snow geese in the titles.)
@@kingcurry6594 I've been listening to this for years and had no idea it had anything to do with Dunkirk - I'm glad I've now been enlightened and agree it is beautiful!
Have to correct myself here - I was thinking of Camels first album - The one with the train on the cover! Still nice though - But not a heart rending as Snow Goose!
I was 13 when this originally aired. It is as moving now as it was then. I will add that this was shown at a time when television as a medium still had asperations to being something better than what it eventually became.
I have always loved this film for the story and the places and people I knew. Sailing barge Venture shown at Kirby Le Soken Essex. Ephraim Sharman and Bill Simpson both bargemen during the war years from Pin Mill. Tom Poldens boat from Heybridge Basin and the Lockhill at Heybridge Basin where I spent a lot of my youth on barges. The Blackwater and Walton Backwaters have always been some of my favourite places for their wildness and good memories. So glad we can still see this. Ha’penny Breeze another good film based on Pin Mill and now pretty much a time capsule.
I'm glad to have found this, as it was A Hallmark Hall of Fame show and that pretty much guaranteed back then, that it would be exceptional. Interesting that 50 years later , Jenny Agutter continues to shine in Call The Midwife and other roles.
This movie made me cry 40yrs ago & again today. Without birds & animals, which I have in abundance around my property, including birds that return each year, life would be colourless & dull. The love animals give in return to me fill my heart with love, & pride because we love each other. Richard Harris- a great actor. Macarthur Park a great, classic song by Richard Harris.
I'm a lifelong WWII history buff and when asked where I would have served had I lived then and had the choice I answer, "A civilian boater participating in the rescue of the British Expeditionary and Allied Forces at Dunkirk". This came directly from seeing "The Snow Goose" when I was 13. Today the new movie "Dunkirk" opens. I hope it does the event justice. Godspeed!
It did. And it compelled me to find this movie, which I still remembered, having only seen it once, in 1971. I think the movie was to Dunkirk what Private Ryan was to D-Day- that being, the closest most of us will ever get to understanding what it was like. And it was plenty close enough for me.
182436hike - I too remember watching this on TV when I was 12 or 13. My strongest memory was Richard Harris. My older sister had his record album MacArthur Park and at the time I thought he was a musician turned actor.
I also have seen both. I'm showing my students The Snow Goose today, and many of them have also seen Dunkirk. To me, Dunkirk was great visually, full of sound and fury. But The Snow Goose uses character and story, not bells and whistles, so it is much more powerful, despite the grainy, sometimes dark visuals of the 1971 version.
I watched this with my gran when I was about 8years old I think. The first thing that made me cry apart from pain, when falling and the like. I had not seen film from that say to this. Over 40 years later and still makes me cry.
Thank you very much for posting this film. I don't care about the aspect ratio. It is beautifully filmed and a beautiful story. Like others, I just saw Dunkirk and wanted to connect with Paul Gallico and this story. Really, thank you.
There are no real words to describe this film - stunning, moving, classic, dramatic, sensitive - are all understatements of the true value of this film. Superb story-line, acting quality, music, timing, and many more aspects make it such a special movie. The juxtaposition of speech, music and moments in the story-line, provide such impact and humanity. I too saw this when it came out, on TV in Portsmouth, with my parents who had been in the RAF, my father particularly who although he wasn't in Dunkirk, was actively on base assisting the pilots and planes. This film provided me with that connection to history and my family which I had never lived through. I could understand the need for good, for people to be good and to do good things for others. To not stand by idly and just watch. How important a message or messages this film has for human kind anywhere. How sad that for whatever reasons the film was never made widely available and how awful that a few should prevent others from seeing this work of audiovisual art. The film score is perfect. The call to help on the radio has such urgency. The final scenes where Fritha is talking with those returning on the boat, "we buried him at sea", the bat's horn, the engine and then the music and the Snow Goose. It is truly a work of art and has haunted me my entire life. It always brings me to tears, thinking of such huge sacrifices those men, and their families, paid for our safety and future. I do hope someday soon the good digital remastered version will appear, and the issues surrounding its blocking to the world, are lifted, and due praise can be publicly given to all those involved in its production. A great author whose book was turned into reality. Thank you for posting this so others can feel for it.
Vielen Dank für diesen wunderbaren Film, der mir sehr zu Herzen geht ! Ich bin durch meine Lieblingsband CAMEL hier hingekommen. Am 17. Oktober 1975 führte Camel das wunderschöne Album THE SNOW GOOSE - zusammen mit dem London Symphony Orchestra - in der ROYAL Albert HALL auf. The Snow Goose : nach einer Novelle von Paul Gallico aus dem Jahr 1941 !
Beautiful. I tried to ask the film distributors Hallmark about it once but they said there was a dispute with the Gallico estate and it would likely never be resolved. Galileo wouldn't let the band Camel use any text to create lyrics for their album The snow goose. as he thought they were promoting cigarettes. So it became an instrumental album. It's beautiful too.
Apparently, this is one of those films that has been butchered for TV over the years to the point that the copies left in the public domain are missing 10 to 20 percent of their original length. This is a film that should be preserved in it's entirety. The chemistry between Harris, Agutter and the Snow Goose is precious.
I had already read the book when I first saw the movie in the early 70's, when I was 20 years old or so. It brought me to tears then and again every time I watch it. And of course, I fell in love with Jenny Agutter too. :-) She went on to star in Logan's Run.
I remember hearing this story on a record my parents bought back in the 60s, and finding it unbearably sad. Ever since then I have been afraid of experiencing that sadness again.
It is sad but don't forget it is as beautiful as it is sad. And think just how much the sweet man deserved heaven. We must all strive to be like him. A friend of my family at my church, Bill Ward was one of the many soldiers who's life he saved at Dunkirk. I can see this film being remade. Perhaps I would love me the thought of the girl remaining at the lighthouse with all the birds and continuing his good work. I would like to know if that happened.
@@carolinemacrae6227 With respect, this is a classic and a remake would-be an injustice ! The girl did not return for she brought the painting with her when she left. She had again lost her family but this time as a young woman who was in love.A hideous loss at any age. That she also lost the Snow Goose is just more heartbreaking. That the Snow Goose left when Philip said that she would never leave the first time she returned to them also made it pointless for her to stay for the Snow Goose did leave because she knew Philip was not returning. The bewildering and agonizing pain to be there without them would be too much to take ! I hope they never make a remake ! There are film restorers who should, by all means, fully restore this classic performance !
+Anthony Sacco Robot Tin-can man. Input, circuit, and overdrive. Shadow of the future and the past. Movement hidden, you are not alive. Programs burned and running fast. What else can you do? Wakening up every morning, and not able to read the news. Passing a breeze God gave you. Barely feeling the I love you~s. Your data has been set to self destruct! Walking around all confused. While your memory is set on stuck. A heart not made to rust. Hanging laundry out in the rain. Lazy technician you can't trust. Look what he's made out of you. Ready to blow your thrust! Compute- abort- system to self destroy. Restoring the joy sucked out of you. Input: input: information . Wipe out the old, store in new. Delete all files to recycle bin. System reboot to life again. With a new program that reads: Feeling like a human once again. (This robot is on) .(self shut down!)
Believe it or not....I saw the original airing in 1971. I can't believe I found it again. Cried like a baby, such a beautiful story. I still read the book from time to time.
Thanks so much for the upload. Came here from Camel 1975..I've ordered the book Wonderful story. Never heard it before today and I'm too old to cry (Hmm). I keep geese,ducks, and chicken on a desolate farm in France and I have a male goose called Oscar who now needs a wife. I will find him one at the next market day in April. Thanks once again
Me too I came here from the album - I've only just found out the connection with Dunkirk etc... I want the book too.. I'm also a Bird fan was a member of the YOC when a kid. Thanks to lockdowns I got back into it big time and even had a Wood Pidgeon eating out of my hand. In fact he got so cheeky in the end he was snatching things of me. It was so cute I could cry.....
I had read this story when I was around 12 years old. It was translated version. But I remember it till now. I was facinated by the hidden love story in this story. I am 50+ now
This film wasn't available for a long time because, I read, Paul Gallico did not want it re-released after his death. There was an email and letter campaign imploring Hallmark to release the movie. Then this showed up on You Tube. If you enjoy this move, you should read the book. Aloud, with your family, is appropriate.
...looks like to won a BAFTA for best television film. Looks like the last batch of our WWII soldiers (and adults when WWII started) are passing, including some notable fighter pilot aces who bravely defended Great Britain in the Battle of Britain.
Yes, CAMEL : Andy Latimer, Peter Bardens, Andy Ward, Doug Ferguson, Mel Collins ! Meine Lieblingsband CAMEL ! Ich war bei mindestens 10 traumhaft schöne Konzerten dieser Progrock-Band, die leider völlig unterschätzt wird.
Many months have passed since the view of the film..I have now 5 geese who have lost their way during the migration. It is the most wonderful sight to see the wing formation here in France when the assemble takes place ready for the migration south, Then in spring they return It warms the heart..Such wonderful birds bringing warmth to stressed souls . I have one goose called Oscar who could not fly with the wing during the fall (Autumn) because of a bad leg and is now my pal. I.have failed to find a wife for him until today...enter Bub Bub..a specked goose with a bit appetite for a mate !!!!!! All are doing what geese do at this time of the year...Watch this space if you like geese...if not watch Trump !!
Not only Canada...Here in France I observed a number of flights during last Autumn. We have a lake close by and to see the birds circle the lake picking up the flight is something else. Last year we had 2 wings heading south , one of 150 birds and a second of 60. I wait today beginning of April to see the return. The birds are of different plumage from the Canada geese in that they predominately brown...but they still head South and return in the Spring.
We watched whenever Hallmark had its Hall of Fame specials bc we knew they would be great programs. I remember this one, and I'm sure I read the book, too.
Beautiful and sad. As has been commented here, Jenny Agutter is so naturally beautiful. And Richard Harris is fantastic. A mad Irishman, he and Olly Reed and Peter O'Toole drank pubs dry. Love Macarthur Park sung by him as well.
Later on came the saying: 'If you love something set it free. If it returns it's yours, if it doesn't it never was.' I wonder if 37:05 was the inspiration for that..
215,00 British soldiers and another 123,000 French were evacuated from Dunkirk between May 26, and June 4, 1940. Many thousands of civilians answered the call and sailed into a combat zone. The movie "Dunkirk" was well made, but not historically accurate. The men were concealed from the Luftwaffe by heavy cloud cover most of the time. Otherwise the Germans would have won the war. The fate of the world hung in the balance.
Forgot about the Russians who at that time were already driving the Nazis back to Germany and would have won the war anyway. The Allies entered the war way too late, the Russians didn't need them. The Allies were hurrying there to divide the European pie and not let the Russians liberate the rest of Europe. My goodness, how the Western world has been brainwashed, and fooled by the media.
She was a beautiful young woman there but they gave her a strangely posh accent. Anyway, the tale itself is beautiful and it all fits together here even if they didn't quite make it to the final outcome regarding the lighthouse.
Her accent is supposed to be from the Essex marshes, places that haven't changed much since Saxon times, like her name. I think she nailed it pretty well but ask someone from East Anglia.
Paul Gallic was a great writer and one I tried to imitate as a newspaper reporter. This is a wonderful story but Anglophiles should read Scruffy for the astute observations about the English personalities as much as the sweet and hilarious story. With CGI it could be made into a very good movie even if comedian Terry Thomas is no longer around to play the brigadier.
I saw this decades ago on PBS, I think and love the tale. In the original short story, the main character is handicapped and lame. He and the girl become lovers. However, in those days it was unacceptable so the author had to change it. Thus, he and the girl are just friends.
They were lovers in a pure sense. I don't mean this in a prudish way. They were lovers but didn't consumate it. Beautiful. I remember a documentary about the Battle of Britain where a WAAF met a Spitfire pilot, and they went on "a weekend" to a hotel, but she said they didn't make love. He was killed in action a few days later. She said she regretted afterwards that they hadn't made love. She actually heard him on the radio in his final dogfight as she worked in the operations room. It's true. She's always worn the badge he gave her around her neck. She remarried and had children, whom she loves dearly, but her husband and children know about the badge and are happy that she still wears it.
I have a small rescue farm in France.Geese are very intelligent birds and respond well to love, kindness and a gentle voice. I have now 2 girls having lost their way found sanctuary here. I call them by name and cuddle the them as you would a dog or cat. Bub Bub the smaller bird will put her foot on top of mine whilst being cuddled so that I will not leave. Top story from Paul Callico and terrific music from Camel..also watch the video Fly Away Home. Finally when Bub Bub gets a husband we will have a family...Take care Nancy
Remember watching this movie for the first time when I was 10. It has haunted me ever since, now I am 59 it still moves me.
Likewise. What a story.
If ever a well-funded motion picture was needed this story is it, simple beautiful and so full of love it shows humanity at its finest.
My Mum played the Lawrence Olivier recording to me when I was about 4 years old. I bawled like a baby every time. I tear up even now just thinking about it. I am 67.
I just watched this film for the first time in 50 years, and had the same reaction I did when I first saw it...it's just as poignant today as it was then, and just as emotional.
The royal family have to watch this💖💖💖💖💗💗
I read the story about 60 years ago, and I'm watching it now, and finding it as you found it - poignant and emotional.
You can't beat Richard Harris co-starring opposite anybody
... even a snow goose. Despite all his accolades, the most underrated cinema actor the world has yet known.
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Agreed, more genuine. George Lucas handpicked director Irvin Kershner to direct 'Empire Strikes Back' due to the genuine realistic quality Kershner had brought to 'Return of a Man Called Horse.'
I read the book before I saw the film, but the casting was just perfect. I still have that book, secondhand when I bought it and I still read it every couple of years. It is just so moving and it's one of those books I will never dispose of!
One of my favourite books. One of my favourite movies. I read this annually always around Remembrance Day and the tears always accompany the reading. A hauntingly beautiful and simple film with its starkness and music.
This was aired on TV in Australia about 1972, I was 11 years old and cried like a baby of course, I never forgot this film for so many reasons, about to watch it again...with tissues nearby!
The layers in this film, and in the Paul Gallico book are myriad and complex. How wonderful, and how special to see it. It is a poor quality copy, but the only one out there.
Thanks for posting. No product placement, no car chases, no one on the movie poster pointing a gun at you. There's no comedy relief scene where she teaches him how to dance or try to be as care free as she is. No one's spouting tag lines for sound bites.
I love your comment and agree this is just pure emotion It's rather short too at about 59 min's -I'm welling up now just thinking of it....
I also love the fact that you used the word 'Myriad' correctly!
Reading Paul Gallico is even more imaginatively rewarding than watching a limited dimensional movie. The mind is free to fill so many gaps. 'The Man Who Was Magic' with the talking dog is so unusually entertaining.
Finally found..... I was only a child when I saw this movie, but I did not know its name, not its actors, nothing, only memories about the last sad scene when she goes away with the painting. ... How great is Internet!!!!... I never did give up, had to write and write questions to google, dates of drama movies of 60´s, 70´s, even 80´s, though I knew it was a old movie. But at last I got it. Thanks for share it, .. salute from Chile, land of Lighthouses.... !!!
Oh yes! to all your comments. I have an original book copy which I read often. Such joy.
This brings back memories. Along with my Lambretta-riding pals, I watched the 'lighthouse' structure being built atop a wartime pillbox at the end of Island Lane, near Kirby-le-Soken, Essex. We also saw a smoke machine creating the foggy scene with Richard Harris. The structure was taken down immediately after filming. I understand some other scenes were shot at nearby Landermere. It must have been the summer of 1971.
Bit late, but thanks very much for that.
Good movie....was a bit blurry-eyed at the end. What a natural beauty Jenny Agutter was - not some make up doll. Totally enchanting.
I first heard this when I was 6 years old (a 78rpm record).....Just as this movie brings a lump to my throat and touches my heart, so did that recording: a beautiful story of the strength and gentleness of love that bonds creatures and humans.
I must say, every movie a watched with Jennifer Agutter in it was insanely good. Just the other day i watched Walkabout for the first time and was absolutely blown away by it.
Logan's Run
This movie is a great piece of art. Unlike the book, which is the forest, this movie is the tree. And it is a majestic specimen.
The pacing is quick, but is handled deftly, like a master watercolorist. We feel the emotional tug between Harris and Agutter, but the goose keeps the whole thing pure and noble. 3 creatures, 'orphaned' from the rest of their families, come together in a unique way. The results are joyous and devastatingly sad, but beautiful.
Richard Harris was asked about the great roles he played, late in his life, and of course he cited Lear, Oedipus, other classics. But The Snow Goose was right at the top of his list. His performance is nuanced and unforgettable.
It is a privilege to have seen this film again, now an old man, to remind me how good the world can actually be.
Beautiful and tragic story, so well done by Richard Harris and Jenny Agutter! I wish so much this movie could be purchased! 💔
In 1971, when our oldest daughter was 5, she sat in my lap while we watched this, both with tears streaming down our faces. (I will have to try this again later, I couldn't get past the snow geese in the titles.)
I have remembered the pathos and message of this film from watching the original as a young child - so pleased to see it again - thank you
the album snow goose by camel is as remarkable piece of music inspired by this story
Without doubt, the Camel album is the most beautiful thing created by mankind.
As I recall, the author sued the band over the album title.
@@kingcurry6594 I've been listening to this for years and had no idea it had anything to do with Dunkirk - I'm glad I've now been enlightened and agree it is beautiful!
There are even some parts which Iron Maiden have 'Borrowed' !
Have to correct myself here - I was thinking of Camels first album - The one with the train on the cover! Still nice though - But not a heart rending as Snow Goose!
A touchingly bittersweet story. Richard Harris and Jenny Agutter gave superb performances. This is one to remember!
Utterly beautiful. I have a copy of the original book which is very precious to me.
I was 13 when this originally aired. It is as moving now as it was then. I will add that this was shown at a time when television as a medium still had asperations to being something better than what it eventually became.
Early 1970s..Hallmark Production..Tough at the End..
We saw this back in the '70s and loved it. It's such a special little film, and I've been looking for it for years. Thank you so much for posting it.
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I have always loved this film for the story and the places and people I knew. Sailing barge Venture shown at Kirby Le Soken Essex. Ephraim Sharman and Bill Simpson both bargemen during the war years from Pin Mill. Tom Poldens boat from Heybridge Basin and the Lockhill at Heybridge Basin where I spent a lot of my youth on barges. The Blackwater and Walton Backwaters have always been some of my favourite places for their wildness and good memories. So glad we can still see this. Ha’penny Breeze another good film based on Pin Mill and now pretty much a time capsule.
Very emotional!
I seen this as a child and watching it again as an adult. Still the same reactions ❤
Having now watched this I can say that I've never Welled Up so much in my life
. It's so heart wrenching! Lovely stuff............
I'm glad to have found this, as it was A Hallmark Hall of Fame show and that pretty much guaranteed back then, that it would be exceptional. Interesting that 50 years later , Jenny Agutter continues to shine in Call The Midwife and other roles.
This movie made me cry 40yrs ago & again today. Without birds & animals, which I have in abundance around my property, including birds that return each year, life would be colourless & dull. The love animals give in return to me fill my heart with love, & pride because we love each other. Richard Harris- a great actor. Macarthur Park a great, classic song by Richard Harris.
I'm a lifelong WWII history buff and when asked where I would have served had I lived then and had the choice I answer, "A civilian boater participating in the rescue of the British Expeditionary and Allied Forces at Dunkirk". This came directly from seeing "The Snow Goose" when I was 13. Today the new movie "Dunkirk" opens. I hope it does the event justice. Godspeed!
It did. And it compelled me to find this movie, which I still remembered, having only seen it once, in 1971. I think the movie was to Dunkirk what Private Ryan was to D-Day- that being, the closest most of us will ever get to understanding what it was like. And it was plenty close enough for me.
182436hike - I too remember watching this on TV when I was 12 or 13. My strongest memory was Richard Harris. My older sister had his record album MacArthur Park and at the time I thought he was a musician turned actor.
I also have seen both. I'm showing my students The Snow Goose today, and many of them have also seen Dunkirk. To me, Dunkirk was great visually, full of sound and fury. But The Snow Goose uses character and story, not bells and whistles, so it is much more powerful, despite the grainy, sometimes dark visuals of the 1971 version.
I watched this with my gran when I was about 8years old I think. The first thing that made me cry apart from pain, when falling and the like.
I had not seen film from that say to this. Over 40 years later and still makes me cry.
60 years for me still makes me cry . I guess if I live till 100 the same . We are the lucky ones to feel so profoundly 🕯🔆
That last speech Philip gives before leaving for Dunkirk brings tears to my eyes.
Thank you very much for posting this film. I don't care about the aspect ratio. It is beautifully filmed and a beautiful story. Like others, I just saw Dunkirk and wanted to connect with Paul Gallico and this story. Really, thank you.
There are no real words to describe this film - stunning, moving, classic, dramatic, sensitive - are all understatements of the true value of this film. Superb story-line, acting quality, music, timing, and many more aspects make it such a special movie. The juxtaposition of speech, music and moments in the story-line, provide such impact and humanity. I too saw this when it came out, on TV in Portsmouth, with my parents who had been in the RAF, my father particularly who although he wasn't in Dunkirk, was actively on base assisting the pilots and planes. This film provided me with that connection to history and my family which I had never lived through. I could understand the need for good, for people to be good and to do good things for others. To not stand by idly and just watch. How important a message or messages this film has for human kind anywhere. How sad that for whatever reasons the film was never made widely available and how awful that a few should prevent others from seeing this work of audiovisual art. The film score is perfect. The call to help on the radio has such urgency. The final scenes where Fritha is talking with those returning on the boat, "we buried him at sea", the bat's horn, the engine and then the music and the Snow Goose. It is truly a work of art and has haunted me my entire life. It always brings me to tears, thinking of such huge sacrifices those men, and their families, paid for our safety and future. I do hope someday soon the good digital remastered version will appear, and the issues surrounding its blocking to the world, are lifted, and due praise can be publicly given to all those involved in its production. A great author whose book was turned into reality. Thank you for posting this so others can feel for it.
Vielen Dank für diesen wunderbaren Film, der mir sehr zu Herzen geht !
Ich bin durch meine Lieblingsband CAMEL hier hingekommen.
Am 17. Oktober 1975 führte Camel das wunderschöne Album THE SNOW GOOSE - zusammen mit dem London Symphony Orchestra - in der ROYAL Albert HALL auf.
The Snow Goose : nach einer Novelle von Paul Gallico aus dem Jahr 1941 !
Beautiful. I tried to ask the film distributors Hallmark about it once but they said there was a dispute with the Gallico estate and it would likely never be resolved.
Galileo wouldn't let the band Camel use any text to create lyrics for their album The snow goose. as he thought they were promoting cigarettes. So it became an instrumental album. It's beautiful too.
Gallico lol
yes listening to it now!
Great album, great band
Apparently, this is one of those films that has been butchered for TV over the years to the point that the copies left in the public domain are missing 10 to 20 percent of their original length. This is a film that should be preserved in it's entirety. The chemistry between Harris, Agutter and the Snow Goose is precious.
Fortunately this upload features all but about 7 or 8 seconds from the original airing which was 50 minutes.
So beautiful. So heartbreaking.
Been searching for VHS then DVD of this since it was first broadcast so many thanks for posting this Beautiful TV Film
Very nice movie. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you for your coment , you are welcome.
Happy Heavenly 91st birthday, Richard, Jenny Agutter's Emmy Award winning role.
Oh my.... I read the novel in 80's and translated it in Urdu. thanks for uploading.
You are welcome.
I had already read the book when I first saw the movie in the early 70's, when I was 20 years old or so. It brought me to tears then and again every time I watch it.
And of course, I fell in love with Jenny Agutter too. :-) She went on to star in Logan's Run.
Brings me to tears too - also love Logan's run!
I remember hearing this story on a record my parents bought back in the 60s, and finding it unbearably sad. Ever since then I have been afraid of experiencing that sadness again.
It is sad but don't forget it is as beautiful as it is sad. And think just how much the sweet man deserved heaven. We must all strive to be like him. A friend of my family at my church, Bill Ward was one of the many soldiers who's life he saved at Dunkirk. I can see this film being remade. Perhaps I would love me the thought of the girl remaining at the lighthouse with all the birds and continuing his good work. I would like to know if that happened.
@@carolinemacrae6227
With respect, this is a classic and a remake would-be an injustice !
The girl did not return for she brought the painting with her when she left. She had again lost her family but this time as a young woman who was in love.A hideous loss at any age. That she also lost the Snow Goose is just more heartbreaking. That the Snow Goose left when Philip said that she would never leave the first time she returned to them also made it pointless for her to stay for the Snow Goose did leave because she knew Philip was not returning. The bewildering and agonizing pain to be there without them would be too much to take !
I hope they never make a remake ! There are film restorers who should, by all means, fully restore this classic performance !
just saw Dunkirk the movie.Yes and I am crying like a baby.What amazing actors these two are. Oh yeah seriously recommend Dunkirk.
Maake Klein the original Dunkirk is the best remakes are rubbish
Love this, saw it years ago, and never forgot it ~💞
If you are not weeping like an infant by the end of this movie, then you must be a robot.....
+Anthony Sacco Robot
Tin-can man.
Input, circuit, and overdrive.
Shadow of the future and the past.
Movement hidden, you are not alive.
Programs burned and running fast.
What else can you do?
Wakening up every morning,
and not able to read the news.
Passing a breeze God gave you.
Barely feeling the I love you~s.
Your data has been set to self destruct!
Walking around all confused.
While your memory is set on stuck.
A heart not made to rust.
Hanging laundry out in the rain.
Lazy technician you can't trust.
Look what he's made out of you.
Ready to blow your thrust!
Compute- abort- system to self destroy.
Restoring the joy sucked out of you.
Input: input: information .
Wipe out the old, store in new.
Delete all files to recycle bin.
System reboot to life again.
With a new program that reads:
Feeling like a human once again.
(This robot is on)
.(self shut down!)
Check out the album by Camel. It was based on the book and the song names are based on the characters.
khuggf very nice....
Believe it or not....I saw the original airing in 1971. I can't believe I found it again. Cried like a baby, such a beautiful story. I still read the book from time to time.
greatest album of all time. Saw Camel live at hammersmith odeon in 1979.
The kind of movie you wish you could tell someone about, but it would be no use. People have been conditioned to crave garbage.
This is so good, also recommend the audio drama of this!
Many many thanks for posting 👌
Really good movie with the great Richard Harris. Saw it many, many moons ago and loved it then. Thanks so much for uploading.
I had to watch this for an English class when I was in the Eight Grade in 1971-72.
Watched for the first time in 2019 :)
Thanks so much for the upload. Came here from Camel 1975..I've ordered the book
Wonderful story. Never heard it before today and I'm too old to cry (Hmm).
I keep geese,ducks, and chicken on a desolate farm in France and I have a male goose called Oscar who now needs a wife. I will find him one at the next market day in April.
Thanks once again
You are welcome, I'm glad you liked it, and good luck with Oscar.
Me too I came here from the album - I've only just found out the connection with Dunkirk etc... I want the book too.. I'm also a Bird fan was a member of the YOC when a kid. Thanks to lockdowns I got back into it big time and even had a Wood Pidgeon eating out of my hand. In fact he got so cheeky in the end he was snatching things of me. It was so cute I could cry.....
what a lovely film
I had read this story when I was around 12 years old. It was translated version. But I remember it till now. I was facinated by the hidden love story in this story. I am 50+ now
This film wasn't available for a long time because, I read, Paul Gallico did not want it re-released after his death. There was an email and letter campaign imploring Hallmark to release the movie. Then this showed up on You Tube. If you enjoy this move, you should read the book. Aloud, with your family, is appropriate.
Sad this is the only version available now. It was made with great care. Now, only this capture. Sad.
This classic should be upscaled, a work of art,
'God speed' 🕊
Man I love this story!
as a youngster heard this on the radio back in nz sunday requests 7.00am 9.00am never forgotten
lovely movie. I'm in the United States///NYC...the Bronx...saw SNOWGOOSE/a dunkirk story listed on Richard Harris' wikipedia page....
...looks like to won a BAFTA for best television film. Looks like the last batch of our WWII soldiers (and adults when WWII started) are passing, including some notable fighter pilot aces who bravely defended Great Britain in the Battle of Britain.
Among my very favorites. Thank you so much for posting this!
Thank you.
Also, the 1976 album by Camel massively shreds
Yes, CAMEL : Andy Latimer, Peter Bardens, Andy Ward, Doug Ferguson, Mel Collins !
Meine Lieblingsband CAMEL !
Ich war bei mindestens 10 traumhaft schöne Konzerten dieser Progrock-Band, die leider völlig unterschätzt wird.
Many months have passed since the view of the film..I have now 5 geese who have lost their way during the migration. It is the most wonderful sight to see the wing formation here in France when the assemble takes place ready for the migration south, Then in spring they return It warms the heart..Such wonderful birds bringing warmth to stressed souls .
I have one goose called Oscar who could not fly with the wing during the fall (Autumn) because of a bad leg and is now my pal. I.have failed to find a wife for him until today...enter Bub Bub..a specked goose with a bit appetite for a mate !!!!!!
All are doing what geese do at this time of the year...Watch this space if you like geese...if not watch Trump !!
F**k Trump bring on the Geese!
It'a a wonderful story, my father loved it.
So wonderful to see this again. Forgot the goose came from Canada.
Not only Canada...Here in France I observed a number of flights during last Autumn. We have a lake close by and to see the birds circle the lake picking up the flight is something else.
Last year we had 2 wings heading south , one of 150 birds and a second of 60. I wait today beginning of April to see the return.
The birds are of different plumage from the Canada geese in that they predominately brown...but they still head South and return in the Spring.
We watched whenever Hallmark had its Hall of Fame specials bc we knew they would be great programs. I remember this one, and I'm sure I read the book, too.
Wow. I saw this as a kid and did not remember that the kid was played by Jenny Agutter.
Like many others, saw in 70s. Wonderful to see again. Thank you.
Beautiful.
I came across this thanks to the Camel Prog Rock Album of the same name! Can't wait to watch this and seek out the book too.
Beautiful and sad. As has been commented here, Jenny Agutter is so naturally beautiful. And Richard Harris is fantastic. A mad Irishman, he and Olly Reed and Peter O'Toole drank pubs dry. Love Macarthur Park sung by him as well.
Just toggle of the audio and see the movie with Camel album masterpiece! : )
Jenny was a lovely young lady.
Thx for posting. Lovely film.
Full of depth.
Love the book
My teacher told my call to write a 500 word recount on the WHOLE story within a week, in less them two minutes in and have used 60
Is this ted
How did u know lol
Hi
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My favorite Richard Harris film
Thank you
Very Good ! Sad, also.
Later on came the saying: 'If you love something set it free. If it returns it's yours, if it doesn't it never was.' I wonder if 37:05 was the inspiration for that..
Very interesting, thank you.
215,00 British soldiers and another 123,000 French were evacuated from Dunkirk between May 26, and June 4, 1940. Many thousands of civilians answered the call and sailed into a combat zone. The movie "Dunkirk" was well made, but not historically accurate. The men were concealed from the Luftwaffe by heavy cloud cover most of the time. Otherwise the Germans would have won the war. The fate of the world hung in the balance.
Forgot about the Russians who at that time were already driving the Nazis back to Germany and would have won the war anyway. The Allies entered the war way too late, the Russians didn't need them. The Allies were hurrying there to divide the European pie and not let the Russians liberate the rest of Europe. My goodness, how the Western world has been brainwashed, and fooled by the media.
She was a beautiful young woman there but they gave her a strangely posh accent. Anyway, the tale itself is beautiful and it all fits together here even if they didn't quite make it to the final outcome regarding the lighthouse.
Her accent is supposed to be from the Essex marshes, places that haven't changed much since Saxon times, like her name. I think she nailed it pretty well but ask someone from East Anglia.
Typical posh thespian accent of the time sadly. It's certainly not a regional accent from the district.
Let the Day Begin. 💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖
Richard Harris the Whispering actor.
Love Jenny Agutter her voice is one I would love to. Have
A great pity that the picture was cropped. Aspect ratio should always be respected.
I made a comment in somebody's thread about Iron maiden - I was wrong - I was thinking of Camels first Album - The one with the train on the cover!
Yes, it was launched in 1973. It's named as the band, Camel
Paul Gallic was a great writer and one I tried to imitate as a newspaper reporter. This is a wonderful story but Anglophiles should read Scruffy for the astute observations about the English personalities as much as the sweet and hilarious story. With CGI it could be made into a very good movie even if comedian Terry Thomas is no longer around to play the brigadier.
The original Dunkirk Story!!
if anyone know where I could get this on DVD... please let me know.
I cried when he throws the hunters' shotgun .... ouch.
Looked like a nice shotgun....
He should have broken the stocks off the shotguns over the bastards heads and then shoved the barrels up their asses!
@@CiscoDuck
Sounds like you shouldn't own a shotgun, and have never been hunting.
@@DARisse-ji1yw I've done my share of hunting.
Read the book! Read the book to your children... Let them read it for themselves!
40:40 Rule 303: If you have the means at hand, you have the responsibility to act.
I saw this decades ago on PBS, I think and love the tale. In the original short story, the main character is handicapped and lame. He and the girl become lovers. However, in those days it was unacceptable so the author had to change it. Thus, he and the girl are just friends.
They were lovers in a pure sense. I don't mean this in a prudish way. They were lovers but didn't consumate it. Beautiful.
I remember a documentary about the Battle of Britain where a WAAF met a Spitfire pilot, and they went on "a weekend" to a hotel, but she said they didn't make love. He was killed in action a few days later. She said she regretted afterwards that they hadn't made love. She actually heard him on the radio in his final dogfight as she worked in the operations room. It's true. She's always worn the badge he gave her around her neck. She remarried and had children, whom she loves dearly, but her husband and children know about the badge and are happy that she still wears it.
Gooday
is this the full movie ?
I don't know why, but I saw the post about this movie on IMDB and I wanted to watch it, but I can not find it.
How did they train that goose?
Maake Klein
You get a hatchling and raise it with gentle hands and food. It will imprint on you as its mom and follow you around for food.
I have a small rescue farm in France.Geese are very intelligent birds and respond well to love, kindness and a gentle voice. I have now 2 girls having lost their way found sanctuary here. I call them by name and cuddle the them as you would a dog or cat.
Bub Bub the smaller bird will put her foot on top of mine whilst being cuddled so that I will not leave.
Top story from Paul Callico and terrific music from Camel..also watch the video Fly Away Home.
Finally when Bub Bub gets a husband we will have a family...Take care Nancy