Danny (1977)

Director:

Gene Feldman

Genre:

Drama

Tagline:

A heartwarming story for the whole family. [Video Australia]

Plot:

A young girl's special love for a horse helps them both.

Plot Keywords:

Horse Actor | Horse Showing | Horse | Independent Film | Character Name In Title

Cast

Rebecca Page	...	Janie Neely
Janet Zarish	...	Pat Chapin
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Ruth Ann Bowers	...	Betty
Michael Coerver	...	Monty Cummings
Michael Dana	...	Otis
Zachary Danziger	...	Wiliam Neely
Barbara Jean Earhardt	...	Andrea Cummings
Terry Harmon	...	Wanda Sue
George Hosmer	...	Jethro (as George Clark Hosmer)
Tom Kenyon	...	County Announcer
George Luce	...	Mike DeVito
Gloria Maddox	...	Kate Neely
Jo Anne Palmer	...	Vickie Cummings
Scott H. Reiniger	...	Eddie

Runtime:

90 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

USA:G

Filming Locations:

Basking Ridge, New Jersey, USA

They should have capped Danny like Old Yeller.

One day, when I was in school (it was close to the end the school year), my teacher popped in this movie. I myself didn't want to see it, but my teacher insisted on having us watch it (even though she had about 10 other tapes). Within the first 10 minutes, I got bored out of my mind.

Before I get started on how pathetic this movie is, I'll tell you this: I just can't understand how this movie received so many high votes! The people who gave this movie high votes must all be three-year-olds who needed help from their parents to click on things. This movie had 9 votes before I gave it a 1, in order to bring down the score. But, after my vote was sent, the overall score was still 7! Can you believe it?!

Before I saw this, I saw Friendship Fields (I think that's what it's called) & Walking Across Egypt (lucky me, those 2 movies are at least 5 times better than this piece of Disney-wannabe crap). This is, without a doubt, the worst movie I've ever seen in my life! Sure, it has a good message in it (is there any Feature Film for Families movie that doesn't have one?), but (well over) a dozen good messages couldn't save this movie's weak plot & terrible music!

Being a Feature Film for Families movie, I knew right off the bat I wasn't going to see the next Lion King. At first, I tried to give it a chance, mainly because I thought it was going to have an interesting horse race at the end. Instead, the whole movie is about a girl who (sort of) owns a pony named (what else) Danny & wants to win a contest with it. The whole contest isn't a race at all, it's just a bunch of horses/ponies that jump over things that are about 2 feet high (ZZZZZ)!

Sounds stupid, doesn't it? Well, it gets worse. The music is pathetic too & inconsistent at times. Sometimes, out of no where, it stops playing completely! And then there's that grossly annoying song that they play at the end, it sounds like something out of Little House on the Prairie. Whoever wrote/composed this music should be ashamed of themself! This movie makes The Buttercream Gang look good!

Overall rating: 1/10