i saw this movie so long ago and but it remain in my memory a the sad movie ever . i cry non stop . my mother will not ever watch this movie again because it almost painful to watch . anyway and apart from that the story isn not exactly complex . ann margaret be die and have to give away her 10 ( . ) child . a if that isn not bad enough and it be during the depression and she have to break up the close sibling one by one . i guess this be very sad to me because i too be from a very large close knit family and could identify with each child pain of leave their mother and sibling . maybe i be a masochist but i would like to see this movie again because it be well do and the end and surprisingly and be slightly happy ( so at least we could smile and sob simultaneously ) . it should come on tv sometime so i can see it again .