National Velvet (1944)
by Clarence Brown
Warner Bros. – November 16, 2021
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Audio : English: DTS-HD Master Audio Mono
Subtitles : English SDH
Duration : 123' (2h03)
Format : Blu-ray / US import
Zone : All zones
Genre : Drama, Family, Sports
Synopsis
As long as young hearts endure, so will NATIONAL VELVET and movies like it. In her starmaking role, Elizabeth Taylor plays Velvet Brown, a wide-eyed adolescent who, assisted by her jockey pal (Mickey Rooney), trains Pie, a horse she won in a raffle, for the Grand National Steeplechase. Of course, no girl can ride in the National, can she? Yet Velvet, posing as a boy, assuredly does. Superbly directed by Clarence Brown, this exciting winner of two Academy Awards (one to Anne Revere as Velvet's mother) co-stars a young Angela Lansbury and veteran Donald Crisp. Plus the film has an off-screen postscript as winning as the onscreen finale: the studio gave Pie to Taylor after filming wrapped.
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