Red Sky at Morning (1971)

That was an excellent one.

The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

I am so glad I found this site and these comments on Red Sky at Morning. I saw this film when I was 13 (36 years ago). As a teen I was just starting to form opinions on relationships. It deeply influenced me for the better I believe. The only coming of age movie that has come close is Stand by Me. I will never forget this movie which considering the number of movies I have watched and deleted from my memory over the 35 years since says a lot. I thought I was the only one that thinks this movie is criminally under rated. If you can find a home made copy please make me a copy. I will pay any amount.No really please send me an email THANKS

This was a great movie. I saw it when it came out. It reminded me of the time I was growing up in the small town in NM. The way we used to play and the pranks we used to pull on new kids in town. It was a great time for me growing up there until we moved to CA. The movie brings great memories. Especially when the kids in town lead the new kid to the local dump and while running at full speed runs into a dead cow. I can still see the new kid in the dead cow and the smell, it must have been awful. That's the kind of innocent pranks I remember pulling on other kids as we were growing up. If and when it is decided to make a DVD of videotape, I would like to be notified so I can purchase one.

I saw this movie the year it came out. I was 19 and living in Corrales, New Mexico. It was a year after I graduated from High School in California and hit the road. The cinema is shot mostly outdoors and really captures the charm and essence of the New Mexico landscape and the flavor and culture of the rural villages. The storyline was brilliant and the actors were matched beautifully to the characters they played. It is a very funny, touching and emotional film at several levels. It is truly classic and timeless. The movie left a lasting impression on me. I think of it often over the years and how much I enjoyed it and would like to get a copy. It is a crime that Universal Studios will not release this movie to CD or video. I cannot understand it. I guess Universal feels it's too "indie" to generate any major income from commercial resale.

I saw this movie with my parents, brother and sister at a drive-in. I was eleven. I haven't seen it since, but it has stayed with me all my life. Richard Thomas the clumsy new guy, troubled, hurt and alone; Catherine Burns the hot new friend whom Desi Arnez, Jr. already ''knows'' and whom you want to know too, completely. This movie gave me my first anxiety attack - believe it! at eleven, an anxiety attack. I still get upset sometimes when I think about it too much. It's because I felt so much for Thomas's character, out in the desert, far from his home, hurting without a father, in the midst of losing his mother, innocence and childhood, and wishing life could return to the way it was before, but could not and ultimately does not. I still cry thinking about the movie. Richard Thomas's emotion-filled, painful expressions (especially when he ''meets'' the dead cow), and Catherine Burns's welcoming smile still call out to me in my memory. The end of the movie is truly one of the saddest commentaries on war and loss, and the whole movie is the most bittersweet example out there of a coming of age film. I wish this film were available for collection. Please Universal, put this movie back out there. I need to see it again to revive my faded memories of it and help me cope with my own coming of age.