MY FRIEND FLICKA (BILINGUAL)

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• Release Year: 1943
• Genre: Family, Western
• Plot: This gorgeous 1943 family film stars Roddy McDowell as a Colorado rancher's son who takes a shine to a colt named Flicka and chooses to train her. The boy's father (Preston Foster) isn't happy about the idea: the horse is an offspring of a stormy mare who may not be right in the head. For a while, Flicka seems determined to prove the rancher's point, fiercely resisting young McDowell's efforts at domestication. But persistence and love win the day, and Flicka grows up to be a magnificent animal and friend. The film was shot by director Harold Schuster and cinematographer Dewey Wrigley as if for the ages, marrying such perfect elements as a Technicolor sweep of the beautiful Rocky Mountains setting with a wonderful story, plus McDowell's charismatic earnestness. Based on the Mary O'Hara novel, this film was popular enough in its time to inspire a couple of sequels, though the original best stands up as a perennially worthy adventure tale for kids ages 5 and up
• Cast: Roddy McDowall, Preston Foster, Rita Johnson, James Bell, Patti Hale, Jeff Corey, Jimmy Aubrey, Arthur Loft, Mary O'Hara, Harold D. Schuster, Francis Edward Faragoh, Lillie Hayward, Ralph Dietrich, Dewey Wrigley, Robert Fritch, Alfred Newman, David Buttolph, Hugo Friedhofer, Cyril J. Mockridge, Joseph E. Aiken, Harry M. Leonard, Richard Day, Chester Gore
• Director: Harold D. Schuster
• Runtime: 1:32
• Company: 20th Century Fox
• Media Format: Movie