Shenandoah (1965) Review

1. Shenandoah | Rotten Tomatoes

  • Overall, a mediocre film. Too many themes are pursued at once. The film starts as a comedy and then forces itself into a tragedy in the last 15 or so minutes.

  • American Civil War film about a wealthy widower who has remained steadfast in his opposition to the war on moral grounds. However, he is forced to become involved in the conflict when his son-in-law is called upon to serve in the Confederate forces, his youngest son is captured by the Union army, and another son and his pregnant daughter-in-law are killed by looters.

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2. "SHENANDOAH" (1965) Review - SCW1842

  • While watching the first twenty to thirty minutes of "SHENANDOAH", one gets the impression of watching a warm family comedy-drama with a Civil War setting. I ...

  • "SHENANDOAH" (1965) Review During my recent viewing of the 1965 movie, "SHENANDOAH" , I came to the surprising conclusion that it proved to be entirely different than what I had assumed it would be. But it is not surprising that it would take several years for the movie to be appreciated by today's…

3. "Shenandoah" Is Civil War Thriller - The Cleveland Memory Project

4. Shenandoah – Brian Fuller

  • It's a distractingly implausible archetype, lifted from pre-school picture books, flatly (even clumsily) lit by director of photography William Clothier.

  • Despite its many genre tropes, I’m not sure Shenandoah counts as a Western. Yet it performs a function common to Westerns of the 1960s. It allows pointed criticism of current events (in this case, the Vietnam War) from a safe, thus palatable, distance.  Many have tagged this an anti-war film, but I’m not sure it is. Yes, Charlie Anderson (Jimmy Stewart) repeatedly avoids involvement in the Civil War, claiming “It’s not on my land. I’m not a slave owner. It doesn’t concern me.” But Anderson cannot long afford his isolationism. Confiscation of private resources, conscription of sons, the death of loved ones — he may not simply opt out of war’s collateral damage. Notwithstanding his earlier protests, there are, it seems, quarrels one simply cannot avoid.

5. Shenandoah (1965) - Seeing Things Secondhand

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  • Dir. Andrew V. McLaglen. Starring Jimmy Stewart, Phillip Alford, Rosemary Forsyth One of my five favorite movies of all time is Gettysburg, a childhood favorite which I describe in that linked piec…

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6. ‎Shenandoah (1965) directed by Andrew V. McLaglen • Reviews, film ...

  • Charlie Anderson, a farmer in Shenandoah, Virginia, finds himself and his family in the middle of the Civil War he wants nothing to do with.

  • Charlie Anderson, a farmer in Shenandoah, Virginia, finds himself and his family in the middle of the Civil War he wants nothing to do with. When his youngest boy is taken prisoner by the North, the Civil War is forced upon him.

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7. Shenandoah - Variety

  • Shenandoah centers upon one person, a sort of behind-the-scenes glimpse ... Extract of a review from 1965. Running time: 105 MIN. With: James Stewart ...

  • Shenandoah centers upon one person, a sort of behind-the-scenes glimpse of one man's family in Virginia during the Civil War.

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8. Shenandoah, directed by Andrew V. McLaglen | Classic Film Review

  • Aug 2, 2021 · A combination of Civil War drama and domestic soap opera, Universal's 1965 hit, written by James Lee Barnett and directed by Andrew V.

  • A combination of Civil War drama and domestic soap opera, Universal’s 1965 hit, written by James Lee Barnett and directed by Andrew V. McLaglen, stars James Stewart as widower Charlie Anderson, a curmudgeonly Virginia farmer who adamantly refuses

Shenandoah, directed by Andrew V. McLaglen | Classic Film Review

9. Shenandoah (1965) - A Fistful-of-Leone!

  • May 2, 2009 · You know, the pacifist message and things like that. James Stewart's not bad but the story is too secured for my taste (apart from being very ...

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10. Shenandoah (1965) - Virginia Center for Civil War Studies

  • The film tells a human story, rather than a traditional war story. Audiences of the time responded to such themes more positively than to its themes of violence ...

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