Linbeymusol
Wonderful character development!
SoftInloveRox
Horrible, fascist and poorly acted
Mischa Redfern
I didn’t really have many expectations going into the movie (good or bad), but I actually really enjoyed it. I really liked the characters and the banter between them.
Raymond Sierra
The film may be flawed, but its message is not.
hawktwo
I'm writing this 40 years after first seeing this movie, so that should tell you how tremendously this film impressed me. It was released so close to Vietnam that almost any war movie made one think of Vietnam even when not about that war.Richard Thomas was the perfect actor for the lead. His sensitive interpretation of a boy becoming the man of the house through less than typical circumstances should have won awards.But this movie wasn't as funny of Summer of 42 and wasn't as heart-braking as the Last Picture Show, so it failed to grab the attention it deserved.
secretdomineux
I saw this film for the first time in 1976, on television. I, for some reason immediately made a connection to Summer Of '42 (1971) but I don't connect it to Class Of '44 (1973) but rather, complete a trilogy with Baby Blue Marine (1976) Makes me wonder why the 1970's nostalgic films about ww2 home front USA seem so real and authentic, more so than examples from the 1950's or those made more recently. I love this film, especially the scoring by Billy Goldenberg. I can remember holding a portable cassette recorder up to the television, (circa 1980) to feebly capture some of the beautiful music.When asked by an online community survey to list favorite films about ww2; I listed the first two films of "my" trilogy right along with Best Years Of Our Lives (1946) and The 49th Parallel (1941)Before I caught this film on IFC a few years ago, 1980 was the last time I saw it. I was living on the Eastern seaboard then, and I can tell you that the cinematography showcasing the beauty of New Mexico made me homesick for the Western landscapes that I grew up around.D
Nmhistory
At last a small company has made Red Sky at Morning (1969 release) available on DVD. You will find it by going to Google and searching Red Sky at Morning DVD. You will not find it through Amazon as yet. Fans are lucky this happened, as it is obvious that usable copies are getting scarce. The quality is good. After seeing the DVD and rereading the Bradford novel, I must say that the changes made for the video are improvements to the story. The "Game of the Rooster" or rooster pull scene is something that was very common in New Mexico in the 1940s. The sensitivity toward racial classification succinctly defined by Steenie continued well into the 1960s. Whatever happened to Catherine Burns who played Marcia Davidson so accurately to the text of Richard Bradford?
danadeb
A conversation over dinner tonight prompted my looking up Red Sky At Morning. My husband and I were talking about the old saying Red Sky at Morning which led to the discovery we had both seeing the film in our teens long before we ever met.One of the funniest lines in the whole film is during a make out scene in the truck and the girl saying "hey that's not a radio knob". I remember my friends laughing over that for weeks. 30 years later - my husband remembers the same line.Neither one of us could remember much of the plot except, we remember LOVING the movie and wishing we could see it again. It must have made quite an impression.I had forgotten Desi Arnaz, Jr was even in the film. This must have been about the time he was in Tiger Beat and dating Patty Duke. I am really old to remember that. I can still remember a voice-over with Richard Thomas reciting "Red Sky at Morning - Sailors Take Warning. Red Sky at Night - Sailors Delight." I think it had a sunrise scene right out of Gone With The Wind. In my youthful ignorance - I thought he was quoting scripture.Not a great movie but certainly it tried and for horndog hormonal teenagers - memorable.Wish it was on DVD!
