A Day Of Thanksgiving (1951)

★★★★★ · A Day of Commie Bashing! · Spuzz · 2003-08-12

Another amazing film from the Centron corperation, "A Day Of Thanksgiving" is. on the surface a melodrama of a turkeyless family on Thanksgiving realizing that the holiday is not all about getting the bird (lol). But really, this film mostly is disguised as a Thank God We Live Here Instead Of Some Awful Communist Country film. This is abundantly evident in the "prayer scene" Daughter is thankful she can practice religion, little brother is thankful he can get books from the library, mother is glad she has the ability to talk about anything she wants, but the lulu of thank yous belong to the…

★★★★★ · A Day of Thanksgiving · Mr. · 2007-06-30

Nice cozy little patriotic short. Recommended.

★★★★★ · A Good Little Film · Educational Archive Fan · 2005-01-31

Do you really understand Thanksgiving is? Centron has produced a film in which a average father explains why we should be thankful for what we have. Though the film was written when HUAC and Mc Carthyism prevailed in America, the same standards apply today: God, Patriotism and love for our country! These are the things we should always be grateful for and never forget!!

★★★★ · A Day of Thanksgiving · Christine Hennig · 2002-10-21

A working class family has trouble making ends meet, and so the parents have to break the news to the kids that there will be no turkey for Thanksgiving this year. When the kids act like this is the End of the World, Dad changes their mind by having everybody in the family make a list of what they are thankful for. Mostly they are thankful for living in the good ol' U.S. of A., even if they are poor. This film would be laughable, except it's a Centron production, and the gritty Kansas feel gives it a certain poignancy. The kids' lists of what they are thankful for sound like genuine school…

★★★ · A good message · ERD. · 2009-08-15

While I found the script to be too preachy and the acting stilted, I liked the message it tries to bring out.