Hellen I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

XoWizIama Excellent adaptation.

CommentsXp Best movie ever!

Derry Herrera Not sure how, but this is easily one of the best movies all summer. Multiple levels of funny, never takes itself seriously, super colorful, and creative.

sandcrab277 I was totally turned off by paul peterson, he must have needed to spread his wings after the donna reed show...he was the only cast member that drew down the performance of the others....slavery was abominable yet not much changed until the kennedy irish catholics pressed the issue...like all wars its difficult to see the enemy and after you do you see its us

inspectors71 On the cashing-in-on-the-youth-market front, there's William Hale's ridiculous Journey to Shiloh. A band of suspiciously late-20s looking 18 year olds leave Texas to go off to find the Civil War. If one can forgive the leaden performances, the Quick-Draw McGraw accents, the idiot-level plotting and action, the obvious Southern California locations, the 1870s armaments, and those gawd-awful wigs, one might find a movie that could have been a wee bit interesting.But it sucks on every level, thereby rendering whatever chance there was for not nodding off as dead as the Confederacy.Which, for the modern-day youth market, may come as a surprise. The Civil War was between the Germans and the Japanese, right?

Wuchak "Journey to Shiloh" (1968) details the story of seven youths from Concho County in near-West Texas who travel across the Mississippi to join the Confederate Army and kick some Yankee arse. While they intend to ride to Richmond, Virginia, they end up hooking up with Braxton Bragg's Gulf Coast outfit and fighting in Shiloh, Tennessee. The male ingénues learn a lot on their long journey and their introduction to soldiering and war. Who lives and who dies? James Caan plays the main protagonist, "Captain" Buck Burnett, while the other six "teens" (all well into their 20s) are Michael Sarrazin, Don Stroud, Jan-Michael Vincent, Michael Burns, Paul Petersen and, believe it or not Harrison Ford, a full nine years before his breakthrough with Star Wars, but don't get too excited as he gets the least screen time of the bunch.On the downside, Universal was huge on TV movies at the time and so "Journey to Shiloh" looks like a TV movie; in fact, it was directed by one of their TV movie directors. So don't expect the cinematic scope of contemporaneous Westerns, like "Duel at Diablo," "Bandolero!," "Hang 'Em High" and "Shalako." It looks serviceable, but also phony and stale. A big part of the phoniness is due to the fake Southern countryside, as the movie was shot in Agoura and Thousand Oaks, California, but takes place in East Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee and adjoining regions. No matter how you slice it, California doesn't look like the deep South, not to mention the studio sets. Another issue is the movie's cartoony vibe. Things that would ordinarily take much longer occur with the quickness of a comic book.Despite these glaring flaws, I found myself ignoring them in favor of the story, particularly as it moved along. You feel like you get to know most of the gang by the end of the movie, Harrison's character being the biggest exception. The "boys" grow from wide eyed youngsters to hardened men over the course of the movie, the biggest rude awakening of course being their baptism into soldiering and war.Speaking of which, I really enjoyed the last third of the film that involves the youths joining up with Bragg's brigade, the ensuing warfare, deaths, injuries, possible desertion and aftermath. Although decidedly comic booky the movie offers a unique glimpse of being a Confederate soldier.The film features no less than four beauties, albeit all relatively short roles: Tisha Sterling as Airybelle Sumner; the un-credited Susanne Benton as the blond saloon girl, Lucy; Brenda Scott as the brunette saloon girl who falls for Buck; and a nurse (Eileen Wesson).FINAL WORD: Someone criticized "Journey to Shiloh" for its obvious low-budgeted faults by pointing out that it's no "Magnificent Seven" or "The Wild Bunch." While this may be technically true I found myself enjoying "Journey to Shiloh" more than these heralded Westerns. Yes, the movie has the unmistakable gloss of one of Universal's factory-made television movies, but it's strong in characters and story, cartoony or not. This is likely because the movie's based on Henry Wilson Allen's excellent novel (aka Will Henry). Some call it an "anti-war movie," but this isn't really true; it's simply a "showing-soldiering-and-war-the-way-it-really-was" movie.The film runs 101 minutes.GRADE: B

qormi Okay, we have a pre-perm James Caan. He got that first perm when he played Sonny in The Godfather 40 years ago and he will apparently be buried with it. We have Sarrazin, Vincent, and Ford; all who had very successful acting careers. We have Stroud and Popworth, who were featured in several Clint Eastwood flicks. The cast was good. The rest was poor. Cheap production - lots of stock footage and indoor sets with fake scenery. Anachronisms abound, as Brenda Scott sports a "That Girl" hairdo made famous by Marlo Thomas. The trouble is, it's supposed to be 1862 - the era of sausage curls - not 1968. I don't believe they had hairspray back then. Then, all of the men are clean shaven in an era where practically all men had beards. James Caan got shot in the arm, had the arm amputated, and is out and about the next day as if nothing had happened. Jan Michael Vincent has the phoniest death scene ever. Brenda Scott's fake eyelashes look like flyswatters. I could go on and on.....skip it.