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The Black Stallion
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.
1979 · Directed by Carroll Ballard · 118 min · Family · Adventure · 8 frames
Tagline
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…
Crew
- Screenplay: Jeanne Rosenberg, Melissa Mathison, Walter Murch, William D. Wittliff
- Cinematography: Caleb Deschanel
- Edited by: Robert Dalva
- Music: Carmine Coppola
- Produced by: Fred Roos, Tom Sternberg
Cast
- Kelly Reno as Alec Ramsey
- Mickey Rooney as Henry Dailey
- Teri Garr as Alec's Mother
- Clarence Muse as Snoe
- Hoyt Axton as Alec's Father
- Michael Higgins as Neville
- Ed McNamara as Jake
- Doghmi Larbi as Arab
- Cass-Olé as The Black Stallion
- John Burton as Jockey #1
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: Arabic, English, Italian, Portuguese
- Studios: United Artists, American Zoetrope
- Budget: $2,700,000
- Box office: $37,799,643
- Themes: rescue, poker, sports, shipwreck, human animal relationship, horse, barn, training, survival, based on children's book
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