The Fighting Sullivans - Commemorative Edition

i like every thing with all the features except there are no inrtuctions on how to use them

THIS IS ONE YOU WILL WATCH AGAIN

Not a dry eye in our house after watching this movie. We watched it as a family movie.

Received earlier than expected, thank you. Although this dvd was extremely expensive, my hubby is very happy.

Great script, great acting, and a wonderful story.

I wanted this movie at a reasonable price and found it with this company.Prestivo was in contact with me throughout the entire process. I received the DVD very quickly. The movie is of good quality. Brings back a lot of memories!

This is a review for the red cover, "Artiflix" copy of The Fighting Sullivans. Many others have reviewed the film itself so I thought I'd review this new copy. I have been wanting to own this movie for some time but the only copy available was a very expensive used DVD. So when this inexpensive DVD-R became available for $9.99 I decided to give it a shot and see. It's not bad for a film made in 1944. There are a few flickers here and there and in several scenes there are vertical white lines that keep showing up. They go away after a few minutes though. The dialogue is a little hard to hear in spots mostly when the boys are young and yelling at each other really loudly and unfortunately there are no subtitles. It's not perfect but it's watchable. I don't know what the original DVD Commemorative Edition looks like so I can't compare but for only ten bucks this DVD-R was worth it to me. I really didn't want to spend nearly 70 bucks for a used copy of this film. It's odd that the title on this Artiflix copy is "The Sullivans" and not "The Fighting Sullivans". At first I thought it was a different movie but rest assured, it's the same one. Great movie! What a family! What a sacrifice!

Amazingly, only the last 20 minutes of an almost 2-hour movie are sad, yet the whole movie builds up to that final dreadful situation, and you can't help but get emotional (that's a good thing, by the way. Everyone should get emotional every now and then.)The bulk of the movie is spent letting you "get to know" the Sullivan family--an Irish family full of scrappers. It's really quite cheesy and fluffy for the most part--until all five brothers determine they are going to help put a quick end to the war after Pearl Harbor. Of course, being a family that has always done everything together, they refused to enlist *unless* they could be guaranteed the same ship to serve aboard.The Sullivans got their wish, of course, and this resulted in one of the singular most tragic episodes of WW2 with all five brothers being lost aboard the same ship. The cover of the DVD points out how the movie almost depends on the fact that the audience knows the ending before the movie starts. I must admit it makes movies like this hard to watch, but it's worth it. Actually, my most emotional moment was after the news was given and everyone had left the room except for the mother and the Navy man (Ward Bond) who had to deliver the news. The man made a comment to the mother that was clearly made only for her benefit, and seeing her response brought tears to my eyes.Ultimately, the story should be told, and this film does a good job. The fact that it triumphantly ends was really somewhat of a surprise. I will leave the very end just in case there are people like me who didn't know that...! I recommend this movie!

I like it, coz it’s a true story of a loving family, happy but sad at the end, give me tears in my eyes.

My mother has been nagging me forever to find this for her and at last Amazon came to my rescue - I couldn't find it anywhere else! She is so pleased with it she keeps watching it over and over. Thanks so much Amazon.

I was so pleased to be able to purchase this DVD as I remember from the 1950's being taken to see this film when I was about 12 years old and could always remember the young brother calling 'wait for me' as he was always late! a lovely lovely film and true story.

what a wonderful and sad story thank goodness things have changed for other families, so they never have to endure what mr and mrs Sullivan did

it has been a longtime since i have seen this film so i was very pleased to find it.