All Mine to Give
An immigrant family in 1850's Wisconsin prospers until tragedy strikes. This is a story based on fact that follows a husband and wife who emigrate from Scotland to Wisconsin in the 1850's. They work v…
All Mine to Give
An immigrant family in 1850's Wisconsin prospers until tragedy strikes. This is a story based on fact that follows a husband and wife who emigrate from Scotland to Wisconsin in the 1850's. They work very hard and become welcome citizens of their new town, Eureka. They have six children. They prosper in the husband's boat building business. But when their eldest is 12, tragedy strikes the family, and the 12-year old is burdened with a terrible task which he handles as well as any adult could. —Ron Kerrigan This is the story of the Eunson family and their attempt to establish a new life for themselves in America. Jo and Robert Eunson have come from Scotland and are soon well established in their new home of Eureka. They and their 6 children fit in quickly in their new community. Tragedy strikes however when one of the boys contacts diphtheria. He recovers but patriarch Robert succumbs to the disease. As a single parent, mother Jo works as a seamstress but she too dies, of typhoid. On her deathbed, she asks the eldest, 12 year-old Robbie, to find good homes for all of the children. On Christmas day, he sets out to find homes for each of his siblings. —garykmcd Set in the 1850s, the Eunson family move from Scotland to the Midwest of America. They are a happy family and successful businesswise until the ill-timed deaths of the children's' parents, Mother, "Jo" (Actress - Glynis Johns) and Father, Cameron (Actor - Cameron Mitchell). Now orphaned, the oldest son, "Robbie" (Actor - Rex Thompson), does his very best to take care his siblings all the while searching for foster parents to adopt, he and his siblings. Christmas, 1868. Twelve year old Robbie Eunson, the oldest of the six offspring of boat builder Robert Eunson and his wife Jo Eunson, the other five, in chronological order, being Jimmie, Kirk, Annabelle, Lizzie and Jane, acts as the occasional narrator in telling the story of his loving family, and the trials and tribulations they faced ever since the day Robert and Jo set foot in rural Eureka, Wisconsin in 1856 emigrating from their home on the Shetland Islands, Jo pregnant with Robbie at the time. Beyond the immediate change in circumstance that brought them to Eureka in the first place, they were like a fish out of water, with no one formally to show them the "ropes" of the way things were done in America or in rural Wisconsin. While most in the community came to their aid, they did face some level of animosity by a few, including Tom Cullen, Robert's boss at a logging camp in nearby Berlin, and always judgmental Mrs. Runyon. But on this specific day, Robbie has to make some difficult decisions not only to ensure that he and his siblings have a good Christmas this year, but that they have happy future, both situations challenging under the circumstances. —Huggo
All Mine to Give
Drama,Family,Romance
Film Details
An immigrant family in 1850's Wisconsin prospers until tragedy strikes. This is a story based on fact that follows a husband and wife who emigrate from Scotland to Wisconsin in the 1850's. They work very hard and become welcome citizens of their new town, Eureka.
They have six children. They prosper in the husband's boat building business. But when their eldest is 12, tragedy strikes the family, and the 12-year old is burdened with a terrible task which he handles as well as any adult could.
—Ron Kerrigan This is the story of the Eunson family and their attempt to establish a new life for themselves in America. Jo and Robert Eunson have come from Scotland and are soon well established in their new home of Eureka. They and their 6 children fit in quickly in their new community.
Tragedy strikes however when one of the boys contacts diphtheria. He recovers but patriarch Robert succumbs to the disease. As a single parent, mother Jo works as a seamstress but she too dies, of typhoid.
On her deathbed, she asks the eldest, 12 year-old Robbie, to find good homes for all of the children. On Christmas day, he sets out to find homes for each of his siblings. —garykmcd Set in the 1850s, the Eunson family move from Scotland to the Midwest of America.
They are a happy family and successful businesswise until the ill-timed deaths of the children's' parents, Mother, "Jo" (Actress - Glynis Johns) and Father, Cameron (Actor - Cameron Mitchell). Now orphaned, the oldest son, "Robbie" (Actor - Rex Thompson), does his very best to take care his siblings all the while searching for foster parents to adopt, he and his siblings. Christmas, 1868.
Twelve year old Robbie Eunson, the oldest of the six offspring of boat builder Robert Eunson and his wife Jo Eunson, the other five, in chronological order, being Jimmie, Kirk, Annabelle, Lizzie and Jane, acts as the occasional narrator in telling the story of his loving family, and the trials and tribulations they faced ever since the day Robert and Jo set foot in rural Eureka, Wisconsin in 1856 emigrating from their home on the Shetland Islands, Jo pregnant with Robbie at the time. Beyond the immediate change in circumstance that brought them to Eureka in the first place, they were like a fish out of water, with no one formally to show them the "ropes" of the way things were done in America or in rural Wisconsin. While most in the community came to their aid, they did face some level of animosity by a few, including Tom Cullen, Robert's boss at a logging camp in nearby Berlin, and always judgmental Mrs.
Runyon. But on this specific day, Robbie has to make some difficult decisions not only to ensure that he and his siblings have a good Christmas this year, but that they have happy future, both situations challenging under the circumstances. —Huggo.