Mickey Rooney delivers an Academy Award-nominated performance in director Carroll Ballard's classic adaptation of Walter Farley's novel.
While travelling with his father,...
Mickey Rooney delivers an Academy Award-nominated performance in director Carroll Ballard's classic adaptation of Walter Farley's novel.
While travelling 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 (Rooney), a once successful trainer. Together they begin training the horse to race against the fastest ones in the world.
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90 %31 reviewsRotten Tomatoes® rating
83 %32,515 reviewsAudience score rating
"It's carefully, calculatingly naive, and amazingly it works."
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Chicago Reader
Chicago Reader"It's thrilling because the romanticism is a matter of style, not sentimentality."
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The Globe and Mail
The Globe and Mail"A magical fable that basks in shimmering imagery, innocent wonder and the romantic longings that we thought Hollywood had left behind in the '50s."
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Boston Globe
Boston Globe"Ballard's feature debut is rich in adventure, suspense and mythical elements and marks the prize-winning short-subjects director as a major talent."
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Variety
Variety"(Ballard and Deschanel) have captured so many lavishly beautiful images that the cumulative effect is one of repetition."
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The New York Times
The New York Times"Ballard's sumptuous images exist only to distract from his rather conventional failings of craftsmanship."
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Time Magazine
Time MagazineThe Black Stallion | Details
- Rating
- G,
- Runtime
- 118
- Genre
- Adventure, Kids & Family
- Country of origin
- United States of America
