Shenandoah

This movie is one of the best ever. When boy walks in the church I cry every time. It's a shame movies can't be like this today, just a great movie. A classic.... Full review

This movie is one of the best ever. When boy walks in the church I cry every time. It's a shame movies can't be like this today, just a great movie. A classic.... Full review

"Shenandoah" is a moving and emotional drama set against the backdrop of The Civil War. Jimmy Stewart plays an archetypal widower, deeply concerned for his six sons and one daughter. They live on a farm in a remote section of... Full review

It is intriguing how some comments confidently classify "Shenandoah" (1965) as an anti-war film and others see it as pro-war propaganda (insert Vietnam here). The anti-war advocates must be basing their position on the film's similarity to "Friendly Persuasion" while... Full review

In may important ways,this is one of Hollywood's most accurate attempts to show what the Civil War was like,both on the battlefield and at home. But director Andrew McLaglen,the 45-year old son of famous movie director Victor McLaglen,and writer James... Full review

If James Stewart had done Shenandoah twenty years earlier he would have had the role that Glenn Corbett has of the son challenging the Anderson family neutrality policy at the dinner table. The Anderson patriarch would have been played by... Full review

I must have seen this film 10 times and every time it leaves a lump in my throat, its something about Jimmy Stewarts acting and the storyline that I find so believable and so sad. The three scenes that really... Full review

A good story for a great actor. Simply an excellent movie. Great scenes, well photographed, with characters you really care about.... Full review

A good story for a great actor. Simply an excellent movie. Great scenes, well photographed, with characters you really care about.... Full review

The moment you begin to watch this film you feel yourself being moved back in time. You see the simplicity of life, the hardships they endure, the way that our ancestors use to live. You feel their pain, see their suffering,... Full review

A great cast, led by Jimmy Stewart as patriarch to a bunch of new actors of the time, makes this a great movie. One of my favorite scenes in this movie is where Stewart gives his future son in-law, Doug McClure, some advice. ... Full Review

I spent my youth underestimating James Stewart , and I blame Saturday Night Live . It's not that I ever doubted he was a good actor, but the imitations of his stuttering shyness were a lot more prevalent, especially since... ... Full Article

SYNOPSIS: Charlie Anderson (James Stewart) is a hard-working Virginia farmer who raises six fine sons and one daughter after his wife dies while giving birth to Boy (Phillip Alford). ... Full Article

From Amazon : Shenandoah, a film well-liked in its day, recalls Friendly Persuasion and foreshadows The Patriot as it tells of an American clan traumatized by war on native soil. ... Full Article