My Friend Flicka (1943)
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86% of critics liked it
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72% of users liked it
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An utterly enchanting Technicolor filmization of Mary O'Hara's novel, My Friend Flicka is the story of a beautiful colt and the boy (Roddy McDowell) who loves her. The boy's rancher father (Preston S. Foster) isn't keen on the horse that his son chooses to train: Flicka, the… More An utterly enchanting Technicolor filmization of Mary O'Hara's novel, My Friend Flicka is the story of a beautiful colt and the boy (Roddy McDowell) who loves her. The boy's rancher father (Preston S. Foster) isn't keen on the horse that his son chooses to train: Flicka, the offspring of a tempestuous mare that has shown traces of madness. The training of Flicka is an arduous process for both boy and horse, and there are times that it appears that father was right. But by applying both love and perseverance, the boy raises the colt into a magnificent specimen. My Friend Flicka was filmed in the Rocky Mountains on a near-epic scale by director Harold Schuster and cinematographer Dewey Wrigley. The film was popular enough to spawn two theatrical sequels and a 1956 weekly TV series. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Directed By
- Harold D. Schuster
- Written By
- Lillie Hayward, Francis Edward Faragoh
- Genres
- Western, Drama, Kids & Family
Unrated,
- In Theaters
- Aug 21, 1944 Wide
- Studio
- Twentieth Century Fox
Critic Reviews
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Common Sense Media Editors, Common Sense Media
Classic horse story picks up in the second half.
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Steve Crum, Kansas City Kansan
Great family film with McDowall in top form.
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Walter Chaw, Film Freak Central
Shows its age while offering up a sort of illusory nostalgia born and bred almost entirely within the cinema experience.
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Cast
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Roddy McDowall
as Ken McLaughlin
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Preston S. Foster
as Rob McLaughlin
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Rita Johnson
as Nell
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Jeff Corey
as Tim Murphy
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James Bell
as Gus
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Diana Hale
as Hildy
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Arthur Loft
as Charley Sargent
- Jimmy Aubrey
