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Dolphin Tale (2011)
If this film doesn't bring tears to your eyes, then you must be made of steel!
The last film that made me cry, was Schindler's List. I am nearly 75 years old!!!! The film is based on a true story and the dolphin, which the film is about, is actually Winter, the star of the film. Please take your kids to see this film and if you can, visit the Clearwater Marine Aquarium in Florida and see Winter. They need your support and you can adopt Winter, or other creatures. I only wish that I still lived in America, but I am too old to visit now. There are plenty more interesting facts on the Clearwater website, about Winter and the other creatures which have been rescue. There are also stories about the humans who have been helped.
The North Star (1943)
This film has always haunted me
My parents took me to see this film at the Rex cinema in Hanworth England in 1943. I was 6 years old! About half way through the film, there was an air raid. We had to leave the cinema and go to a shelter. I remember the story and especially the song, which the children were singing on the cart. The film has been shown many times on television, but I have never been able to watch it. I guess that this must have some connection with the air raid. I am now 74 years old and the film is being shown again on television tomorrow afternoon. I hope to finally be able to watch it all the way through, at long last and lay to rest whatever has prevented me doing so previously.
I have finally seen this film to the end! Not bad after 68 years. I now realise why it made such an impression on me. In the film, the children and some adults were bombed and machine gunned by aircraft, after jumping from the carts into a ditch. It was at this point that we had to leave the cinema because of an air raid, having just seen children killed on the screen. I had already experienced many air raids at the age of 3 years and 9 months, during the Septmber 1940 Blitz and I still have vivid memories of the bombing, destruction and fires. Am I correct, or is my memory failing in that I believe the original title for the U.K release was 'The Red Star'???