National Velvet
A jaded former jockey helps a young girl prepare a wild but gifted horse for England's Grand National Sweepstakes.
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"A sentimental, heart-tugging family film set in England of the 1920s. A young Elizabeth Taylor wins a horse in a raffle and decides to enter him in the Grand National; fortunately, ex-jockey Mickey Rooney is around to give Liz some help. Director Clarence Brown displays some remarkable control with material that could've been excessively maudlin in someone else's hands. He and screenwriters Helen Deutsch and Theodore Reeves take great care in establishing genuine characterizations and developing the story naturally. True, there are one or two scenes that seem a bit forced, but ov..."
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Mickey Rooney had to film all of his scenes in one month before he had to report for basic training to serve in World War II.
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A jaded former jockey helps a young girl prepare a wild but gifted horse for England's Grand National Sweepstakes.