National Velvet
A young Liz Taylor, standing eye to eye with an adult Mickey Rooney, stars in this classic children's fable at a girl and her horse, named The Pi. Rooney is a down-on-his-luck ex-jockey who encounters the Brown family, working as a general servant but taking to young Velvet (Taylor) when she comes into the ownership of a wild gelding. On sheer determination, she enters The Pi into the Grand National steeplechase, a grueling horse race in which she eventually rides herself (scandal!). Great fun for the youngsters among you, but I don't know how much "sheer determination" us adults can stand at once.
Rating
3.5 out of 5 Stars
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- Director: Clarence Brown
- Producer: Pandro S. Berman
- Screenwriter: Helen Deutsch, Theodore Reeves
- Stars: Mickey Rooney, Elizabeth Taylor, Donald Crisp, Anne Revere, Angela Lansbury
- MPAA Rating: G
- Year of Release: 1944
- Released on Video: 10/01/1980
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