I've always liked Roddy Mc Dowall :like his good friend Liz Taylor ,he was a child actor whose career would still be thriving when he grew up : a teenager in such works as "Lassie come home" and "how green was my valley" , a young man in "Cleopatra" ,a middle-age man in " dead of winter" , one of his rare parts of a villain (and terrifying at that).
"Black Midnight" ( it's the name of his stallion ) is suitable for the whole family and for people who like horses ,although the violent mistreatment of the stallion may be hard to bear for the very young audience .
Scott ,an orphan who lives in his uncle's farm is a nice but clumsy boy ( count the times he falls into the duck pond, into the eggs or elsewhere);he does not approve of cousin Daniel's taming of his stallion and buys the wild horse ;"we will pals " ;and pals they become . But he has to reckon with cousin Daniel's and his shady companion's ominous plan.
Very pleasant scene of the country ball ,with the infectious "come along home Cindy " song ....A fete .which Scott will sheepishly finish.
"Black Midnight" ( it's the name of his stallion ) is suitable for the whole family and for people who like horses ,although the violent mistreatment of the stallion may be hard to bear for the very young audience .
Scott ,an orphan who lives in his uncle's farm is a nice but clumsy boy ( count the times he falls into the duck pond, into the eggs or elsewhere);he does not approve of cousin Daniel's taming of his stallion and buys the wild horse ;"we will pals " ;and pals they become . But he has to reckon with cousin Daniel's and his shady companion's ominous plan.
Very pleasant scene of the country ball ,with the infectious "come along home Cindy " song ....A fete .which Scott will sheepishly finish.
