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The Black Stallion is a 1979 American adventure film based on the 1941 classic children's novel of the same name by Walter Farley. The film starts in 1946, five years after the book was published. It tells the story of Alec Ramsey, a boy who is shipwrecked on a deserted island with a wild Arabian stallion that he befriends.
- The film’s 12-year-old star, Kelly Reno, originally accepted the role of Alec in part because he wanted to learn how to swim. Reno took lessons so he could film the movie’s underwater scenes.
- The riding scenes, however, were a piece of cake. Reno grew up on a ranch in southern Colorado. After injuries sustained from a serious car accident cut his acting career short, he returned to work as a cattle rancher for 20 years.
- The Black Stallion was filmed at several locations around the world, including Toronto, Sardinia, and Rome’s Cinecittà Studios. The movie’s shipwreck sequence took place in Cinecittà Studios’ huge outdoor water tank.
- Four main horses were used to portray the Black throughout the film. The two most prominent were the Texas-bred Arabian stallion, Cass Ole, and his double, Fae Jur.
Alec (Kelly Reno) encounters a magnificent black Arabian horse while traveling aboard a steamship around the coast of North Africa with his father (Hoyt Axton).
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- Carroll Ballard
- G
- Kelly Reno
The Black Stallion is a 1979 adventure movie directed by Carroll Ballard. It is based on the children's book The Black Stallion by Walter Farley. It is about the friendship of the boy Alec Ramsey and an Arabian horse. The movie stars Kelly Reno, Teri Garr, Hoyt Axton, Mickey Rooney and the Arabian horse Cass Ole.
The Black Stallion: Directed by Carroll Ballard. With Kelly Reno, Mickey Rooney, Teri Garr, Clarence Muse. After being shipwrecked with a magnificent horse off the coast of Africa in the 1940s, a boy bonds with the stallion, and trains him to race after their rescue.
- (14K)
- Adventure, Family, Sport
- Carroll Ballard
- 1979-10-17
The Black Stallion is a film adaptation of Walter Farley's novel, directed by Carroll Ballard. It tells the story of a young boy named Alec who survives a shipwreck and forms a bond with a wild stallion on a deserted island.
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But the first hour of this movie belongs among the great filmgoing experiences. It is described as an epic, and earns the description. The film opens at sea, somewhere in the Mediterranean, forty or so years ago, on board a ship inhabited by passengers who seem foreign and fearsome to a small boy.
