I remember when this played on Uncle Walt’s show (when I was much much younger). I loved it. It made me want to read the book and find out more.....the rest as they say is history
it is a simple movie that reflects American values unlike the current Disney Company.....this was a different time, and Walt was still here....he loved this country, and the message of this film, “Johnny Tremain” will be understood by any age.....and you, my fellow Freepers will agree will all that is said....
BTTT!!!!
Do you know when this program will be broadcast next time? Please share when I can record this movie. I love liberty, I want to share it’s meaning with my children. Thank You
Do you know when this program will be broadcast next time? Please share when I can record this movie. I love liberty, I want to share it’s meaning with my children. Thank You
This was required reading in some of our sixth or seventh grade classes. I never read it, but I got hooked on Kenneth Roberts novels. They are outstanding.
As I recall, the young actor who played Johnny Tremaine also played the part of the son on the TV show The Rifleman (starring Chuck Connors).
It does not appear to be available on DVDs that you can buy.
This was on my required summer reading list back in grade school. I remember my parents bought me a copy and I think I read it several times while growing up. I still remember the picture on the dust jacket.
Walt Disney was a very decent guy, and his company made many excellent, morally positive movies until he died and the bad guys started taking it over.
They still made some good movies, but you could no longer count on them for family values.
Both an excellent book and movie. Read and saw them when I was young and learned about the fight for freedom through the characters in them.
Highly recommend for children as young as 11. Definitely needed in today’s age of “historical deconstruction”.
Disney was a great patriot, esp. during WW2, with his studios helping to win friends in Latin America. Also his movies and cartoons were well done, both in their professional context as well as in their pro-America, pro-freedom messages.
Today we have Quentin Tarantino, Michael Moore, Oliver Stone, and Spike Lee, among others, who make a lot of money attacking the very country that gives them the freedom to make crap, distort history and promote their own brand of hate.
Unfortunately, Walt Disney’s successors at Disney Studios, have turned more to the Left, negating the pro-America stance of a great movie industry giant.
Reading “Johnny Tremain” is a good start for young people in their education to counter the leftist propaganda now flooding the movie screens, air waves, music, and in print.
Great movie from back in the days when the Disney Company stood for something good.
I love the book, but I did not know that there was a movie. Yay!
Two of my home-schooled kids have read the book, I don’t know if their teacher (mom) knows there is a movie.
We saw this on the Disney Channel many years ago, when our kids were young. We all enjoyed it.
Giving up your guns? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bywHCTjuoaw
I can’t believe you posted this. Johnny Tremain and the Sons of Liberty have been own my mind lately. I’ve been intending to get the story to my grandkids.
An apparently ever lasting memory goes back to the day I saw it at the movies when I was a single digit midget. I only remember bits of the story. What sticks in my mind is at the end of the movie I thought how great it must have been to be involved in the Revolution and that opportunity was gone forever.
Hey, back then that’s the way things looked.