Raymie, a nine-year-old boy and an avid fisherman, dreams of catching a legendary giant barracuda know as Old Moe. When he finally accomplishes the feat of landing Old Moe, he has a change of heart and doesn’t want to see the barracuda destroyed.
Director: Frank McDonald.
Stars: David Ladd, Julie Adams, John Agar, Charles Winninger, Richard Arlen, Frank Ferguson, Ray Kellogg, John Damler, Jester Hairston, Vicente Padula, Ida Smeraldo, Christy Lynn, Brent Wolfson, Marianne Gaba, Shirley Garner.
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Note: I think this one’s got to be the most epic upload on the site to this day. The original source of this print is a 16mm that a TV station worker found while cleaning up the station’s archive room back in the early 2000s, which he then sent to have it digitally trasferred. This copy specifically was sent to me by a very kind and generous guy over in Australia who managed to get a copy of the digital transfer, this upload wouldn’t have been possible without him, many, many thanks, Mr. R. You can read more about how this film was recovered and why it has never been released on DVD or VHS on his personal blog, here.
Great find, Jon! Thanks so much for making it more widely available!
I think I remember reading about this rediscovery a year or two ago. Glad to finally see the film. My utmost thanks to you, Jon, and of course to our friend from down under, Mr. R!
Wow! What an amazing opportunity you’ve given us! Thank you to you and to the generous Mr. R.!
Fantastic work ! Thanks
What a delightful movie! I’m always amazed when a movie about a fish can capture an audience. Thank you, Mr. R, for sharing.
Thank you very much. I wonder what David Ladd thinks about the resurfacing of a movie he shot almost a lifetime ago.
Great little gem. Glad it was rescued!
Epic indeed! Thanks for sharing!
Great film!!! We were lucky to be able to see it!!! I love David Ladd’s work he did other nice family films too like “The Rebel”….!! Fantastic!
Thank you so very much for making this extremely beautiful movie available to all of us to watch. I’ve just finished watching it and I have tears streaming down my face. It’s both wonderful and heartbreaking at the same time. Very rare. I can’t thank you enough. I’ve wanted to see this movie for a long time. And it was worth the wait!
This is a lovely movie. It deserves much more than being shelved somewhere.
Hopefully one day the vault will open for Raymie to get a proper re-release on dvd.
A pity the final scene seems to be incomplete of the copy here, but I guess it’s just a matter of seconds that are missing.
I am SO stoked to see all the positive responses to Raymie from you guys. And might I join you in sincerely thanking Jon for making the film easily publicly available here. It’s indeed a little gem restored to its rightful place in film history when it might so easily have been lost to us.
Huge thanks to Troy in Florida for sending me a digitized copy of the film after I discovered his Raymie fan page. And thanks so much to my great mate Matt, in Melbourne, for so willingly applying his technical knowhow to splice together the two digitized disks Troy sent me.
I’ve just received the cutest little story in my Raymie blog post Comments section, which you might like to check out – from a guy whose parents named him after the film!! I don’t know why, but I was so touched,
https://www.boomtownrap.com/9261/raymie-1960-movie-review/
Cheers all
Ross (aka rolanstein).
Marc, sorry to hear the ending is truncated by a few seconds. I’m pretty sure my copy is complete. I’ll check it against the version posted here, and if there is anything missing, will collaborate with Jon to remedy it. Won’t be until mid December, unfortunately – otherwise indisposed for a few weeks.
Cheers
Ross
I really enjoyed this Movie… Another great movie David Ladd was in was “The Proud Rebel” 1958
Saw this at the Fulton theater on Jackson Avenue in Jersey City at a Saturday noon matinee. I was 8 & I’ve never forgotten how beautiful & sensitive this film was.
I had been searching for years to watch just once more. Thank you! I will now need to share with my grandchildren.
I first saw this movie in 1970 on sarkes tarzians WTTV channel 4 in Bloomington indiana. I .Never saw it again for 50 years. It was seemingly lost and no one I talked to had ever even heard of it. For the fun of it I kept the legend of “” OLD MOE “” alive. I lived down in Stuart florida from 1978 -1989 and would tease the locals about this great fish. I was always amused with their reactions. Especially since no one had ever seen the movie .