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The Black Stallion Collection

The Black Stallion

Name: The Black Stallion
Released: 1979-10-13T00:00:00.000000Z
Rating: 7.1

From the moment he first saw the stallion, he knew it would either destroy him, or carry him where no one had ever been before…

1979 • 118 min • ★ 7.1 (336) • Released

Adventure Family

While traveling with his father, young Alec becomes fascinated by a mysterious Arabian stallion that is brought on board and stabled in the ship he is sailing on. When it tragically sinks both he and the horse survive only to be stranded on a deserted island. He befriends it, so when finally rescued both return to his home where they soon meet Henry Dailey, a once successful trainer. Together they begin training the horse to race against the fastest ones in the world.

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Original title: The Black Stallion
Language: EN
Country: US
Budget: $2,700,000
Revenue: $37,799,643

Reviews & Ratings 1

Wuchak

Sep 10, 2021 · via TMDB

★ 5.0

_**Aesthetically pleasing, but dramatically dull**_ A boy befriends a fiery Arabian stallion in the Mediterranean in 1946 and ends up hooking up with an ex-horse racing trainer (Mickey Rooney) back home in the northeast USA. Teri Garr plays the mother. "The Black Stallion" (1979) starts out like Tarzan’s origin, just substituting the horse for the apes, before switching to the typical sports formula (young underdog’s talent is recognized and trained by an over-the-hill mentor). Thankfully, this is not a Disney kiddie flick; the tone is artistic and mature with the same visual/audio wonder of “The Secret Garden” (1993), both movies produced by Francis Ford Coppola. While it’s as aesthetically awesome as “The Secret Garden,” it’s not as dramatically engaging. Teri Garr's role is negligible and Rooney’s character isn’t interesting like, say, Mr. Miyagi in “The Karate Kid” (1984) or even Nick Nolte’s ‘Socrates’ in “Peaceful Warrior” (2006). Either Garr’s part needed beefed up or the scriptwriters should’ve added another character to the mix, like a girl who befriends the boy, but SOMETHING to keep things compelling. As it is, the story is too dull to maintain the interest of most people over 7 years-old. But the stallion is magnificent and I appreciated the relationship between boy & beast, not to mention the excellent post-war era décor and the afore-noted artistic exquisiteness. The film runs 1 hour, 57 minutes, and was shot in Sardinia, Italy (island sequences), and the Toronto area of Canada, with some stuff done in northwest Oregon (Astoria, Gearhart and Nehalem). GRADE: C+

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barn based on children's book deserted island horse horse racing human animal relationship jockey poker rescue shipwreck sports stallion survival training

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Cast 14

Kelly Reno

Alec Ramsey

Mickey Rooney

Henry Dailey

Teri Garr

Alec's Mother

Clarence Muse

Snoe

Hoyt Axton

Alec's Father

Michael Higgins

Neville

Ed McNamara

Jake

Doghmi Larbi

Arab

Kristen Vigard

Becky

Fausto Tozzi

Rescue Captain

John Karlsen

Archeologist

Leopoldo Trieste

Priest

Donald Hodson

Taurog

Marne Maitland

Drake Captain

Crew 9

Caleb Deschanel

Director of Photography

Carroll Ballard

Director

Robert Dalva

Editor

Francis Ford Coppola

Executive Producer

Fred Roos

Producer

Carmine Coppola

Original Music Composer

Alan Splet

Supervising Sound Editor

Melissa Mathison

Screenplay

Walter Murch

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US Release Dates 2

Oct 13, 1979

New York City, New York

G Theatrical (Limited)

Oct 17, 1979

G Theatrical