Red Sky at Morning (1971)

everything you have heard about this movie is true.

Great movie! If you want to be entertained and have a few good laughs, see this movie. The music is also very good,

When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

I'm writing this 40 years after first seeing this movie, so that should tell you how tremendously this film impressed me. It was released so close to Vietnam that almost any war movie made one think of Vietnam even when not about that war.Richard Thomas was the perfect actor for the lead. His sensitive interpretation of a boy becoming the man of the house through less than typical circumstances should have won awards.But this movie wasn't as funny of Summer of 42 and wasn't as heart-braking as the Last Picture Show, so it failed to grab the attention it deserved.

I am not sure just what a spoiler is. I am not trying to write a spoiler. I am just trying to tell it straight. This turkey movie makes no sense. A young man lives in Alabama where his father owns a ship yard. World War II breaks out and his dad can't run the ship yard because he is called up by the Navel Reserve. OK Then what. There is a war on. That leaves the guys mom to run the shipyard. Wouldn't you think he would be doing everything to help her and help the war effort by helping out at the ship yard. I sure would. I worked when I was a teenager. So what does he do? Does he even try to help out? No. He goes out to New Mexico to goof off. You know John Boy was more helpful working at the saw mill at Walton's Mountain than he was in this turkey movie. Now when he gets to New Mexico he gets in fights with some Hispanics. John boy fight the Germans not the Mexicans. I can't see why anybody would think this was a good movie. Thanks. I am not trying to knock it. I am just telling it like it is. I hope this helps.

A conversation over dinner tonight prompted my looking up Red Sky At Morning. My husband and I were talking about the old saying Red Sky at Morning which led to the discovery we had both seeing the film in our teens long before we ever met.One of the funniest lines in the whole film is during a make out scene in the truck and the girl saying "hey that's not a radio knob". I remember my friends laughing over that for weeks. 30 years later - my husband remembers the same line.Neither one of us could remember much of the plot except, we remember LOVING the movie and wishing we could see it again. It must have made quite an impression.I had forgotten Desi Arnaz, Jr was even in the film. This must have been about the time he was in Tiger Beat and dating Patty Duke. I am really old to remember that. I can still remember a voice-over with Richard Thomas reciting "Red Sky at Morning - Sailors Take Warning. Red Sky at Night - Sailors Delight." I think it had a sunrise scene right out of Gone With The Wind. In my youthful ignorance - I thought he was quoting scripture.Not a great movie but certainly it tried and for horndog hormonal teenagers - memorable.Wish it was on DVD!

I first saw this movie in 1979 on HBO, it was on 3 times that day and I saw it over and over again as If I could not get enough of the movie and by some magic Josh would come home and the movie would go on. It is hard to explain something "of" the Heart, words cannot describe how I feel about this movie. It had everything. The music was beautiful and when I hear the song it takes me right back to Segrata (the landscape was quiet and peaceful with a never ending sky, the characters were so alive. I just loved it. I must be one of the few lucky ones who got it on tape when it was on Showtime (unedited) a few years ago and I watch it often. Red Sky At Morning is my favorte movie of all time.