I can barely watch it....

I guess I'm glad I never read the book because I love this movie.

i love the book so much! I borrowed it out yesterday and have been reading it since. If they scriptwriters took the whole and true character of POllyanna from the book and put her on screen, i think it would just be too sickly sweet :D but i do love it!
And how could someone not speak to someone for fifteen years! even if they were jilted and still have clandestine feelings for each other! 15 years! I mean what on EARTH did they fight about?! I'm hoping to find a copy of another Pollyanna movie version in my library which I've heard is a bit truer to the book.
Yeah they completely changed it all, the whole accident and everything. at the moment I'm trying to convert the two of them together to write a musical version of it but they're just so different. I like the movie too though. Jane Wyman is awesome!

"It's not appropiate for royalty to jingle"

I remember as a little kid being shocked at my teacher's disdain for Disney and how he/they messed up classic books and changed storylines...now I understand but can appreciate the differences. I watched many Disney films as a child, but they made me want to go read the books(which I did). Pollyanna, Pinocchio, Bambi, Cinderella were all fabulous books very different from the classic films. Some of those books were quite scary and a bit dark, especially for children's eyes, IMO. The Wizard of Oz is actually 2 books and VERY different from the film.

Watch the 2003 version.I watched it yesterday and I loved it so much that I had to see the 1960 version too.But I'm so disappointed,I only watched 1 hour of the movie.From what I've read,the 2003 version follows the original storyline of the book

Frankly, I think the film is quite a bit of an improvement over the book (which I've just re-read within the past few days). The book was episodic and loosely structured, where the film took all the basic story threads and wove them into a cohesive whole.

Obviously the largest difference between the film and novel is with the Pollyanna character herself. The primary problem I have with the book is that the heroine is just TOO good, TOO sweet, TOO everlastingly charming and upbeat to be the least bit believable. Now, I wouldn’t say that she is offensively good---unlike the horribly sanctimonious Elsie Dinsmore (a popular Victorian kid-lit heroine), Pollyanna doesn’t preach to the other characters or give the impression that she’s morally superior to everyone else. But Pollyanna didn’t come across as a natural little girl for me; she pales not only into insignificance, but into invisibility, in comparison to, say, the marvellous Anne Shirley of the "Green Gables" books.

In addition, I would say that the Pollyanna of the novel displays a general naïveté that might have a certain charm in a child half her age, but in a ten- or eleven-year-old character, it just seems a bit odd. I don't want to sound too mean-spirited, but you'd almost think that she has some sort of developmental disability. So, the portrayal of the main character is kind of a major drawback to the novel.

Hayley Mills makes the character much more believable, more realistic, while still being quite charming and likeable.

This one is a frightful adaptation. I like the book, and very much like the other two adaptations that I have seen. But this one? Impossible to like if the book has been read, or the other versions have been viewed.

that's why i prefer the more recent adaptation

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let's not go to camelot, it is a silly place

The book, is so stupid, bad and unrealistic. This film though is Lovely, I love Hayley Mills Pollyanna, she feels more like a real person, with some darkness inside of her and not just pure happiness.