Angela Lansbury, Anne Revere, Arthur Treacher

After Mike Taylor, a headstrong English ex-jockey, is soured on life by a serious accident, he plans to steal from the country family that has taken him in. However, his resolve is weakened by the kin...( read more  read more... )dness of a young woman and the two find a common bond in their love of horses.

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G, 125 min.

Directed by: Clarence Brown

Release Date: December 14, 1944

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DVD Release Date: July 11, 2000

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  • October 17, 2006
    Beautiful.
  • July 25, 2009
    This was one of the first colour films. Liz Taylor as the girl in one of she?s first films. Good ethics of Velvet's parents, particularly her mother is something to take into account. Velvet loves the horses and racing them so Mi Taylor (Rooney) brought her to an international ho...( read more)rse racing competition in England, where at the end the young Velvet won, but was disqualified because of being female.
  • October 30, 2008
    This film can always give you a warm glow, but Taylor is way too earnest and the story way too inconceivable to be enjoyable.
  • August 12, 2009
    Stupid, sentimental shit.
  • March 30, 2009
    It'd been so long I forgot.
  • March 3, 2009
    young Elizabeth Taylor great
  • December 24, 2008
    A classic story of a young girl and her passion for horses, which leads her to win the Grand National, one of the toughest horse races. One day, she notices a mischievious horse, called the Pie, and falls in love with him. Through circumstance, she becomes the owner of him throug...( read more)h a raffle. Then, she finds out about the famous horse race, the Grand National. She determines to enter the Pie in it with the help of her friend Mi Taylor, who's a former jockey but has an aversion to horses because of an accident he had when racing. This movie is heartwarming and cheerworthy, with excellent performances by Mickey Rooney, Elizabeth Tayler and of course, the Pie.
    I can watch this movie over and over again and not get tired of it; every time I cheer for Velvet and the Pie at the end when they cross the finish line. And of course, I love the colorful Brown family, with sensible Mrs. Brown, slightly ignorant Mr. Brown, boy-crazy Regina, and adorable Donald.

    "Violet...put that plate back in." "Oh, it aches me so."
  • July 21, 2008
    I beleive that if you are 12 year old girl you will love this movie. After that not so much
  • July 18, 2008
    Great for nostalgia. Probably Elizabeth Taylor's best next to "Cleopatra".

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