Smoky

Engaging western with good performances.

Great family movie about a man's love for a wild horse, his kindness earns the horses trust and devotion. Burl Ives singing is wonderful. Lots of action, great acting, and good story with valuable lessons to be learned about people and animals. Suitable for all ages.

It is probably most notable for being the first film appearance of Burl Ives. I enjoyed seeing him perform a couple of songs on screen, but there wasn't much to the rest of the film if I am being honest even as much as I like Fred MacMurray. (First and only viewing - February 2020)

one of the best human-horse stories I've seen.

130913: I like horse movies normally but this one is pretty...lame. Narrarated through-out, like it's a book being read. Has a couple quaint moments but just isn't that impactful. Also, not really a western in my books due to taking place in the 30s. You're not going to see any gunfighting action here.

loved it, I want on DVD, I actually enjoyed this movie, it was better than what I thought, I thought it was a great film, I loved it, it was directed by Louis King, it was a great westen

A very good film with some brilliant acting Contains spoilers! This tells a story of a black horse called Smoky if anyone exsept the owner went near the horse the horse would become wild. One day the owners brother stole the horse and sold the horse on the owner was trying to trace who had is horse and he found the one who had the horse in the end after it got sold on a number of times. The horse became really happy to see his owner because the horse had been missing him. The owner was a bit upset because his brother pulled rope around the horse and hurted the horse and his brother had friends to help him tie the rope to the post or whatever too. Some people were really cruel to the horse so the owner was very happy to have him back and when he was with his owner he new his way home.The horse tried to get away a number of times to try and exscepe but they kept on catching him and being really nasty to the horse. Some parts got boring and slow at times right at the begining it was interesting but then it got slow a bit after that in parts but most of the story was done very well and the acting was fantastic.The story was done in a lot of detail telling the true story of what happened to smoky this type of film didn't suffer in many parts the story dragged near the begining and in some parts after that but the story wasn't effect much in any ways it was done very well and in an awful lot of detail how wild the horse got at times were just amazing and the film had emotional parts and occassionally the film had very happilly parts too the film got funny in parts and got sad in parts well I would say this much this western was probablly the best western I have seen well probablly most deffinut the best movie I have seen. As I have said the story about smoky and the story of the western itself was very well done and the story didn't get weak or slow often this movie didn't suffer anyways the story may of dragged in a few scenes but the story overall was still good. Well they could of made the story a bit more interesting and faster but this was good. Overall I'm deffinitly reccomending this film.This film was very well done probablly the best western I have ever seen.

well umn just seen this movie 4 the 1st time n think that this is a good movie 2 watch..its got a good cast of actors/actressess throughout this movie..i think that fred macmurray, anne baxter, bruce cabot, burt ives play good parts throughout this movie...its a good 1940's movie 2 watch...i think that the director of this Drama movie had done a good job of directing this movie because you never know what 2 expect throughout this movie its a good movie 2 watch n its enjoyable as well

not horsing around this one is good!