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How old were you at the time Betsy? I think a lot of kids, including my ex, were traumatized by the death in that movie. Come to think of it, he too had lost his father before seeing it. Hmm, never thought of that before.

I had a similar experience (of being seriously traumatized by a film) with the 3-D movie House of Wax with Vincent Price (but I didn't know who that was then). It involved a man badly disfigured by a fire in a wax museum, with his face dripping like wax, and how embittered he was. He would climb through the bedroom window of young women and kill them with a knife. That's about all I remember because I too spent most of the movie on the floor with my eyes covered or in the lobby crying. After that movie, I could no longer sleep in my room (its window was just above the roof of our porch and easily climbed), walked in my sleep for years, and was terrified of knives and fires for a decade or more.
Wasn't worth it, was it. To this day I cannot watch that movie on tv. I get shivers just repeating this.

Bets, my ex wasn't even born until late 1944, so it's possible you saw it in one of its many many theatre runs sometime after '45. That's one movie (Bambi) I never saw in a theatre--didn't take my kids either based on Bob's experience. Little bodies, huge imaginations, even bigger screens, and no sense of what's real or not yet. Not a great combination.