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Summary: Two Films in One
Review: This film has two distinct parts - the spectacularly minimal first half on a deserted island, with no dialogue and transcendant cinematography, and the more conventional second half where Mickey Rooney pretty much plays to type but is redeemed by the best horse-race filming I have ever seen. My daughter, like most 6-year old girls, is devoted to horses, and loves this film. My 3-year old son loves the races. The final race, with a flashback to the island, has to be one of my favourite pieces of film-making ever. Buy the DVD - you would wear out a videotape!
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Summary: The movie wasn't that good!
Review: I was hoping for something more dramatic based on what I was told. The movie seems to leave out a ending. It seems as the producer is trying to add mystery with the movie. This movie is still better than a lot of today's junk..
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Summary: girl's best friend
Review: As a child, my hearing impaired sister used to watch this visually evocative film on an almost daily basis. Indeed, any dialogue overlaid onto the powerful relationship between Alec and the horse, the Black, could be considered superfluous. The DVD version shows how wonderfully the "The Black Stallion" speaks in a painterly language--and how Coppola captures the West African coast with stunning visual depth and texture.
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Summary: My favorite movie of all times!
Review: I can't say enough good things about this film! It touches my heart and brings a tear to my eye every time I watch it. It is truly a masterpiece that I will watch over and over! p.s. - I love the "The Black Stallion Returns" just as much!
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Summary: Great film and Great musical score
Review: I first saw the film when it was released in the theaters, wow some 20 years ago. Watching the final race scene still gets your heart going. Excellent locations and an even better soundtrack add up to a great film. I am searching for the soundtrack myself on CD. Truly a film for both children and adults in my opinion.
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Summary: The most magical childrens' (& adults') movie ever made!
Review: I have been completely enchanted with The Black Stallion since first seeing this movie in the theater at the age of 7 and then having the opportunity to meet Cass Ole in Washington, D.C. shortly thereafter. I remember being the first in line to have my picture taken with that horse! I have never seen a movie more beautifully filmed. From start to finish you will be riveted during the trauma of the sinking freighter, the desert island scene (about 45 minutes with no speaking - you will be amazed at well they pull this off!), The Black's homecoming to New York and the final race. I still watch this movie on occassion and my heart beats harder each time as Alec and The Black are rescued from the island and during the race. Still, my favorite scene is during the final credits where we return to the island and see Alec and The Black playing together and rolling in the sand on the beach as the most beautifully reminiscent music plays. This is the stuff dreams are made of - I have always wanted to be Kelly Reno on that island!
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Summary: Beauty Abounds
Review: This film has, in my opinion, the most beautiful and emotionally satisfying end credits sequence ever produced. The brilliance shines through as you are left to take in all the exotic locales, somber moods, and adventurous outings the film has to offer. Carmine Coppola's score is absolutely gorgeous. Oscars would have been well deserved for cinematography and score.
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Summary: Make this the 1st DVD to the collection
Review: The action, picture, and sound are truely amazing. One of the finest films ever made. This DVD keeps the 3 year old, 5 year old and 32 year old hypnotized.
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Summary: Great Rendition of a Great Book
Review: I had the pleasure of seeing the premiere of this film in the NY Film Festival in 1979. What made it especially fun was that Kelly Reno was present, we are about the same age and I got to meet him briefly after the show. I had read the book prior and felt that this was a wonderful adaptation of the imagary in the book. One of the other reveiewers felt it wasn't true to the story, but I have always felt that this is one of the all time best visual adaptations of a book to the silver screen.
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Summary: Cinematic craft at its' finest
Review: I first saw the two movies called "The Black Stallion" by accident many years ago. The first hour's experience (Movie #1) should be standard curriculum for any aspiring film-maker as an example of the true telling power of the audio-visual medium. Virtually without dialog, the full depth and range of the relationship between Alec and The Black are brought into the viewer's soul; from the turbulent beginnings on the sinking ocean liner, the tentativeness and beginnings of trust, the soaring exhiliration of their first ride, to the fierce determination of The Black to stay by his Human - even if it means swimming the Ocean. The supurb cinematography, visionary story-boarding, and haunting soundtrack score the alien landscape that is thrust upon this pair as the crucible of their bond in the deftest of strokes. I have since (and, maybe, partially because of this movie) become a horseman myself, now with 12 years of experience raising and training my own animals. As with another wonderful movie, The Horse Whisperer, I can find no compromise in the treatment and depiction of the spirit and behavior of the horse in this film. None of the messy "humanification" of motives and forethought, as in "Black Beauty". Movie #2 (the last half) is more formulaic, and all the less enchanting because it takes place in our world, dependant as it is on language as the vehicle of communication. Although the story becomes predictable, the acting performances and cinematography remain top-notch. I'd score this half of the movie a "4". All in all, a movie I've owned on VHS for years, and one of the first I'll add to my DVD library, along with "Out of Africa", "The Matrix", "The Horse Whisperer", and "Phar Lap".
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