The Black Stallion

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…

Sinopse

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.

7.0
1979
Released
1h 58m

Status

Released

Original Language

Budget

$2,700,000.00

Revenue

$37,799,643.00

Keywords

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

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Reviews

@Wuchakabout 4 years ago

_**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 spo