Reviews

As a kid, I loved this movie. I watched it over and over again because they played it at least once a year. By today's standards, perhaps people would judge it differently, but in 1966, with no computer generated effects, this movie looked absolutely plausible. It was entertaining, engaging and fueled the imagination of an entire generation.

This was the same year that Star Trek the original series began its run. Man had not yet landed on the moon, but there was a space program. So much imagination at a time when nobody knew what a nano was. Well done!

I'd still take this movie over something that was 98% CGI. Any day of the week!

I watched this movie for the first time when I was 9 years old. I wept. I watched it again, every time I could find it airing anywhere. Twenty years passed. Last night, it aired on PBS and I watched it again and still, the same way it did back when I was 9, I could not stop my tears flowing when I watched Cicely Tyson as "Miss Jane" walking to that drinking fountain and drinking from it.

That scene is on my list of all time great movie moments... TV or big screen... it doesn't matter. This scene is classic and still as powerful for me today as it was back then.

If only we still had, as a rule, TV of this high caliber today... that both entertains and educates and changes your way of thinking. It ought to be a must-see movie for everyone. Simply... magnificent!