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The film starts in 1946, five years after the book was published. It tells the story of Alec Ramsey, a boy who is shipwrecked on a deserted island with a wild Arabian stallion that he befriends. After being rescued, they are set on entering a race challenging two champion horses.
Everything depends on the outcome of the big race at the film’s end. The young boy, of course, is the jockey (the Elizabeth Taylor role, so to speak). Ballard and Deschanel are still gifted at finding a special, epic look for the movie; one especially good scene has the stallion racing against time, in the dark before dawn, in the rain.
It was basically him and Ballard, the kid and the horse alone in Sardinia. Some of the shots are totally miraculous. I’m surprised no one got hurt filming this. They shot the entire ending of the movie first and then did the magical Sardinia footage after the ending was locked.
16 maj 2015 · The movie begins and ends with that totem but it’s otherwise sparingly used and, perhaps for that reason, surprisingly effective. 5. Mickey Rooney IS Henry Dailey. This was the first movie I ever saw Mickey Rooney in, when I had no knowledge of his history as a child actor, vaudeville performer, or yellowface caricature in Breakfast at ...
25 lis 2019 · Once completed, The Black Stallion got shelved by United Artists. “I thought the film was an utter failure,” Ballard confides. “The studio guys that came to see it thought it was...
Based on the 1941 children's novel of the same name, the movie tells the story of a young boy who becomes shipwrecked on an island with a powerful and mysterious black Arabian stallion, and the bond that forms between the two and strengthens as they return to civilization.
19 cze 2023 · Our list of facts delves into those intriguing details, shedding light on the elements that together make The Black Stallion a timeless classic. 1. Kelly Reno, Who Played Alec, Accepted the Role Because He Wanted To Learn to Swim
