Bobby Driscoll was really good, and the story was fine in this Disney classic. The animation sequences (also used in other movies of that time period) that Disney employed were distracting to me, but were meant to teach values like sticking to something that you start. The story alone did that, though, and it was a much better movie when Bobby Driscoll was smiling, traipsing through the woods, and dancing. A barefoot boy with a great smile can't be beat.
Jeremiah (Jerry) Kincaid lives with his grandmother on a farm near Fulton Corners in 1903, and the movie is primarily about his relationship with a little black ram that he raises after the mother ewe refuses to feed it because it's a "black sheep". (I'm glad my mom didn't treat me that way.
) That little ram is constantly getting into things and getting Jerry in trouble for ignoring his chores and things like that, but the grandmother never follows through on her threats to get rid of it. Jerry has a real good relationship with his uncle in this movie, as well as with his grandmother. The climax is when Jerry enters his ram in the livestock show at the County Fair, but is a black sheep capable of winning the blue ribbon as a Champion?
Bobby Driscoll at his best.
1964 poster of the re-release of this 1949 movie and a photo from Bob's Child Film Stars Photo Gallery:
(You need to Login or Register to view media files and links) (You need to Login or Register to view media files and links)We've discussed it before, but here is a link to a website that tells how Bobby Driscoll died homeless and unknown in 1968, after his fame in his youth had waned.
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So Dear To My Heart (1949) (Read 5,006 times)
