good, but it could've been better

Rating: 9/10 (20 January 2008)

Primarily, I was shocked that the VHS version (which we've owned for years, but I just saw recently for the first time) said this movie was rated PG, but once I got into it, there was some very graphic content - especially for a movie made in 1965! According to IMDb, it's rated PG-13, but that is certainly not what the case said! Additionally, I found a good deal of the content to be "assumed" and glossed over quite vaguely. It was often quite confusing - and I am not one to be confused with movies! Although it was beautifully done and worth the 3.5 hours to watch it, I found I had to read the book to really understand what was going on.