Charles Goldner, Cyril Smith, Hugh Sinclair

In this 1950 classic, Paul, a young, introverted boy, escapes his mother's constant complaints about poverty by climbing onto his rocking horse. He soon discovers that while riding furiously on the ho...( read more  read more... )rse, he gains the ability to pick a winner at the racetrack. His family quickly becomes rich but squanders the money as soon as they get it, forcing Paul to exhaust himself trying to pick more winners … with tragic results.

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Unrated, 91 min.

Directed by: Anthony Pelissier

Release Date: June 8, 1950

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DVD Release Date: September 24, 2002

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  • June 29, 2009
    A young English boy discovers that he can help erase his mother's enormous financial debt by predicting winners at the race track. Its never really quite clear whether the young man's psychic ability to predict horse races comes from spirits within his home, his scary-faced rock...( read more)ing horse, or somewhere within his own mind. Regardless of it's origin, his "gift" proves to be no match for his mother's enormous greed.



    A dramatic morality tale with a touch of supernatural mystique thrown in for good measure, The Rocking Horse Winner is classic British drama that is part Oliver Twist and part Twilight Zone.
  • December 4, 2008
    a fine british adaptation of the creepy dh lawrence story about a boy who desperately rides his rocking horse in order to predict race winners to please his money obsessed mother
  • December 13, 2008
    seen parts or most of it...so scary! and i've read the story
  • April 10, 2008
    We need anything politically important rationed out like Pez: small, sweet, and coming out of a funny, plastic head.
    Dennis Miller
  • March 18, 2008
    I didn't like this film.
  • July 19, 2007
    All CLASSICS are GOOD
  • July 4, 2007
    I read the story and enjoyed it. SO I want to see how the movie turned out
  • April 3, 2007
    great ...oldie..check it out.....

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