I saw this movie with my parents, brother and sister at a drive-in. I was eleven. I haven't seen it since, but it has stayed with me all my life. Richard Thomas the clumsy new guy, troubled, hurt and alone; Catherine Burns the hot new friend whom Desi Arnez, Jr. already ''knows'' and whom you want to know too, completely. This movie gave me my first anxiety attack - believe it! at eleven, an anxiety attack. I still get upset sometimes when I think about it too much. It's because I felt so much for Thomas's character, out in the desert, far from his home, hurting without a father, in the midst of losing his mother, innocence and childhood, and wishing life could return to the way it was before, but could not and ultimately does not. I still cry thinking about the movie. Richard Thomas's emotion-filled, painful expressions (especially when he ''meets'' the dead cow), and Catherine Burns's welcoming smile still call out to me in my memory. The end of the movie is truly one of the saddest commentaries on war and loss, and the whole movie is the most bittersweet example out there of a coming of age film. I wish this film were available for collection. Please Universal, put this movie back out there. I need to see it again to revive my faded memories of it and help me cope with my own coming of age.
Review of Red Sky at Morning
