Just watched the movie!

Just so you know, Jenny was 18 when this movie was filmed so by society's standards, it's OK to lust after her in this film. Also, a woman doesn't have to be smoking hot to be appealing. A wholesome girl-next-door type can be infinitely more attractive than the monstrosity that is Pamela Anderson to those of us who appreciate natural beauty. Just my opinion.

I wish there were more recent notes from people about this movie, because I'd love to see any new opinions and get updates on the availabliltly of this beautiful, beautiful film. First of all, I agree, if this film is unattainable, that is a huge tragedy. I was born in 1958 - that makes me now 51 years old - and I saw it when I was 13 years old girl - the first Christmas Season Hallmark released it on TV - and I have never forgotten it. I'm sure I would understand the film on different levels now, but, as a 13 year old girl when first viewing it, I didn't notice whether Jenny A. was attractive or not - in fact, didn't even remember she was in the film until reading the notes on this site.

As a side note, the first time I ever noticed Jenny A's presence in a movie was when I was about 22 and saw her in the gorgeous movie 'Walkabout'. Here she played a nice but rather clue-less, deadpan and one-dimensional 'lust prop' for the far more beautiful, moving and intense charachter of the young Aborigine who loved her. I have found Jenny A.'s acting throughout her life to be similar - very competent but not terribly inspired and rather emotionless. I think perhaps someone would have to be a guy, (or maybe a gay female) lusting after her for just her looks alone to be that interested in her, because I think amongst the rest of the heterosexual, female viewing public, she's not considered a terribly interesting actress.

While we can all see that she is technically pretty and many men will take it on as part of their life's work to confirm the technical truth of that, it's like the difference between someone playing Beethoven technically perfectly with no mistakes but also with no emotion, vs. a pianist who may make mistakes but plays with intense feeling. The technical perfection of a woman's appearance does NOT sexy make, and I think most people, even guys, with any maturity at all, know that. I could be wrong, but I don't think fellow hetero females would deem Jenny A. even naturally truly sexy in a wholesome, girl-next-door way because, even though technically pretty, because she lacks the general female adorableness of looks AND sparkling personality AND native intelligence AND wit and humour - like a Jennifer Aniston or an Amanda Peat or a Julia Roberts, or from back in the day, a Teri Garr, for instance. These are 'pretty' girl-next-door types that aren't JUST pretty but also have sex appeal because of their personal style and charm - which Jenny A. has always struck me as almost totally lacking.

That's just my little side blog to the Jenny A. lusters out there. Sorry about criticising someone to whom you've obviously assigned lustful admiration - and I agree you can lust over whomever you want - it's (at least as of today), still a free country - I'm just offering my humble opinion that you yourselves would become happier, less one-dimensional charachters if you'd chose less one-dimensional objects of your lust.

So, anyway, as a 13 year old girl I never noticed whether Jenny. A. was attractive or not or even that she was in this movie at all. However, during that same year, I was hugely impressed, and with life-long effects, by female performances in films that let the viewer know something about the female's role in the story other than, "I'm pretty, don't you lust after me?" Those were the performances of Bette Davis in 'Now Voyager' and Merle Oberon in 'Wuthering Heights'. Unlike Jenny A.'s role in the Snowgoose, those were performances that MEMORABLY demonstrated the endurance, beauty, self-sacrifice and heartbreak involved in some of the female condition of life - intensely shown glimpses into this truth that would (and still will) knock any truly thinking/feeling person on their ass no matter what age - from 13 to 113 - amybe even guys, but again, I can't speak for guys. I don't know what guys are capable of learning, sociologically speaking, that is, other than who's pretty and/or sexy and who's not - maybe they're capable of learning only this, maybe capable of learning lots more than this - I'm only 51 years old and so I still haven't had enough time to really be able to tell for sure. It's a study in progress.

As far as the Snowgoose movie, what did make an impression on my innocent 13 year old female self was that the love between the man and his snow goose was more pure than love complicated and contaminated by romantic yearnings, (also, by the way, a theme not identically but similarly worked in both Wuthering Heights and Now Voyager, involving man/woman love that was so deep as to be beyond the sexual) - and that the sacrifice of tearing oneself away from that kind of innocent love was the more tragic separation because of the total innocence and inability to comprehend the reason for separation on the part of the snowgoose. She embodies pure and innocent love, which compels her to desperately fly alongside her master until she can fly no longer, as he rows his tiny boat out to sea to pick up fleeing soldiers from the Battle of Dunkirk.

The film shows this beautiful stairway-stepping of uncommunicable yet pure and sacrificial love - the goose for her master and her master for his fellow man. If only he could have explained to his snowgoose that he was only channelling her same feelings for him towards a higher, more noble cause - she would have understood his need to leave her. It reminds me of a quote from, I think, Sir Walter Scott (not sure) - and even then, I'm only paraphrasing: "I could not love you did I not love honour more".

I saw this movie alone at age 13 and had my heart ripped open and cried my eyes out for these reasons. If there had been a room full of adults watching with me and crying, too, they may have had additional reasons for crying, but reasons that would have included these, I'm sure. I have never seen this movie since I was 13 and have never met anyone else who has, though I've talked about it for years and have asked almost everyone I've ever met if they saw it, always with the response, 'no'. I'm so happy to be in touch with people who have seen it and who could maybe help me get a copy or invite me to a viewing so I could see it again from the more adult perspective that I would have now.

Then again, I have always been so hard-wired, since the day I was born, to be so emotionally in love with animals, that I don't know if my adult perspective would change much of the emotional quality I had in response to this film the first time I saw it. I've gone through my 20's through 40's now, and titillating suggestions or images DON'T carry much weight with me as they did during those years - it's rather like I've reclaimed my childhood perspective on things, and what a beautiful place that is for the heart and mind to reside, once again!

I don't know whether my finally noticing that the Richard Harris characther in this movie had a 'thing' for Jenny A., (not sure, but this seems to be the suggestion from other writers, (perhaps 'missers-of-(or-detractors-from)-the-point-of-the-story) on this site - whether this ever-so-late-in-the-day realization would add or actually detract from the sweet, tender, innocent emotions I had when I first saw this film. Then, I was someone not yet in the grips of adult mindset - a 13 year old, unlike most of our 13 year olds, (or even 7 year olds), today - who had actually not yet lost her chilhood innocence.

If anyone reading this can also remember what it was like to see the world through the innocent eyes of true childhood, you, as am I, are lucky indeed. Most of our children for the last many decades have had the chance at seeing things through innocent, truly childlike eyes, stripped away from them starting while they're still in diapers and in their playpens, what with their parents having positioned them right in front of T & A tabloid TV news shows and 'reality shows'. So sad.

If someone knows of a way I could get a copy or come to a viewing of the Snowgoose, please contact me asap by writing a reply to me here at IMDb. Thanks, fellow Snowgoose lovers! - Sarah

Hi, I live in New Zealand and like you watched as a young girl & really moved me, I have been trying to get a copy, but have had no luck? is there anywhere that you know of I can get a copy? Many thanks, kind regards, Cherry

I just finished watching it again, after decades of having lost track of it. It made me weep just as it did when I first saw it as a child.