4 Film Favorites: Classic Horse Films (DVD, 2007, 2-Disc Set) Black Beauty

Description: See photos for condition and content. Will combine shipping on multiple orders. Black Beauty Black Beautyis a 1994 familydrama film, written and directed byCaroline Thompsonin her directorial debut.[1]The fifthcinematic adaptation[2]ofAnna Sewell's 1877 novelof the same name, the film starsAndrew Knott, who, the year prior, had played Dicken inThe Secret Garden(another of Caroline Thompsons film credits, as screenwriter), as well asSean Bean,David ThewlisandAlan Cummingas Black Beauty. Produced and distributed byWarner Bros., under theirWarner Bros. Family Entertainmentlabel, the films story is told as anautobiographyof the horse Black Beauty (as in the novel), with Cummings voiceover narration as Beauty leading viewers through the trials of the horse's life through his own eyes. National Velvet A jaded former jockey helps a young girl prepare a wild but gifted horse for England's Grand National Sweepstakes. International Velvet After her parents are killed in a car crash, teenage Sarah Velvet Brown is forced to leave her home inCave Creek, Arizona, to go to England to live with her aunt Velvet Brown and Velvet's boyfriend John. After the events ofNational VelvetDonald got married, had Sarah, and moved from England to Arizona. When Velvet was a similar age to Sarah, she and her horse, The Pie, entered the legendaryGrand Nationalhorse race and crossed the finish line first; however, Velvet and The Pie were instantly disqualified because Velvet was a 14-year-old girl. The Pie is ultimately put out to stud upon his retirement. He sires his last foal after Sarah's arrival in England. Sarah and Velvet are present for the birth of this foal and Sarah eventually decides that she'd like to purchase him. She later finds out that Velvet has bought him for her. Sarah aptly names him Arizona Pie. She shows enough talent to be selected for the British Olympic team, where she is the junior, but she does well under the stern guidance of Captain Johnson. Sarah lives up to her dream and enters theOlympicThree Day Eventhelping Great Britain win the team competition. She falls in love with an American competitor named Scott Saunders and moves back to America with him. At the conclusion of the film, Sarah is married to Scott, and she gives her Olympic gold medal to Velvet when she returns to England to visit and introduces Scott to Velvet and John. The Story of Seaniscuit The Story of Seabiscuitis a 1949 Americandrama filmdirected byDavid Butlerand starringShirley TempleandBarry Fitzgeraldin a semi-fictionalized account of racehorseSeabiscuit, the top money winner up to the 1940s. The screenplay was written byJohn Taintor Foote, uses the actual racehorse names, but changed the names of people involved. Though shot in Technicolor, the film incorporates actual black-and-white footage of Seabiscuit in races, including the 1940Santa Anita Handicapand the 1938 match race against rivalWar Admiral, which is still considered by many to be the greatest horse race of all time.

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