The story of a wild black stallion and the cowboys who set out to capture him.The story of a wild black stallion and the cowboys who set out to capture him.The story of a wild black stallion and the cowboys who set out to capture him.
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- TriviaMuch of the footage of Highland Dale,the horse playing Outlaw,is lifted from 'Red Canyon' [1949] which also featured the equine actor who also had the title role in the television series 'Fury'.
- GoofsWhen both Rockwell and Aldis work with Black Horse, it is always rearing up, but they are clearly making a gesture that the horse is trained to rear up to. They always raise their arms just a second before he rears up, clearly controlling the horse with their gesture. The gesture is made to look like a defensive response to the horse rearing (like they are shielding themselves from the horse's hooves or something), but the gesture clearly happens before the horse rears, not after.
- ConnectionsReferenced in Century of Cinema: Cinema of Unease: A Personal Journey by Sam Neill (1995)
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A Perfect Summer Afternoon Matinee
This screenplay was designed, performed, filmed, and sold for all those theaters standing in the sunny June afternoon on shady town squares.
Little groups of junior high kids out on summer vacation, meet at the swimming pool to leap off the high dive after lunch then stroll to the movies all together, hair still dripping, shouting and teasing and throwing rocks and barely touching hands and blushing furiously amid the great gusts of summertime laughter. Their world was an Impressionist painting, every thing around them more unfocused and more trivial the further it was from a lover's face. Then into the lobby, where two tickets and two soda pops and a giant box of popcorn was a dollar which was a big percentage of a week's income earned from a paper route, but what was money for? And then into the relief of the cool darkness after the brilliant, hot outdoors and finally the frantic fear of touching hands again, terrified of rejection and even more afraid of a shy, thrilling acceptance.
This was the audience and Black Horse Canyon was the perfect movie, a simple tale of wild horses, haylofts and corrals, riding and saddles and hackamores... everything more unfocused and more trivial the further it was from a lover's face... McCrea the consummate, laconic cowboy and Blanchard the beautiful lady who needs a little protection from dastardly rustlers - but not very much because she really can handle most things herself.
"Black Horse Canyon" is an Impressionist's vignette, an American Dream, about hard work, and fighting the good fight, and about falling in love on sunny June afternoons.
Little groups of junior high kids out on summer vacation, meet at the swimming pool to leap off the high dive after lunch then stroll to the movies all together, hair still dripping, shouting and teasing and throwing rocks and barely touching hands and blushing furiously amid the great gusts of summertime laughter. Their world was an Impressionist painting, every thing around them more unfocused and more trivial the further it was from a lover's face. Then into the lobby, where two tickets and two soda pops and a giant box of popcorn was a dollar which was a big percentage of a week's income earned from a paper route, but what was money for? And then into the relief of the cool darkness after the brilliant, hot outdoors and finally the frantic fear of touching hands again, terrified of rejection and even more afraid of a shy, thrilling acceptance.
This was the audience and Black Horse Canyon was the perfect movie, a simple tale of wild horses, haylofts and corrals, riding and saddles and hackamores... everything more unfocused and more trivial the further it was from a lover's face... McCrea the consummate, laconic cowboy and Blanchard the beautiful lady who needs a little protection from dastardly rustlers - but not very much because she really can handle most things herself.
"Black Horse Canyon" is an Impressionist's vignette, an American Dream, about hard work, and fighting the good fight, and about falling in love on sunny June afternoons.
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- Oct 8, 2022
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