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Courage of Black Beauty

  • 19571957
  • Not RatedNot Rated
  • 1h 18m
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5.1/10
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Courage of Black Beauty (1957)
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After some hesitation, 10-year-old Bobby accepts the gift of a magnificent black foal from his severe, thoughtless and overprotective father.After some hesitation, 10-year-old Bobby accepts the gift of a magnificent black foal from his severe, thoughtless and overprotective father.After some hesitation, 10-year-old Bobby accepts the gift of a magnificent black foal from his severe, thoughtless and overprotective father.
IMDb RATING
5.1/10
66
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    • Harold D. Schuster
    • Steve Fisher(screenplay)
    • Anna Sewell(novel)
  • Stars
    • Johnny Crawford
    • Mimi Gibson
    • John Bryant
    • Harold D. Schuster
    • Steve Fisher(screenplay)
    • Anna Sewell(novel)
  • Stars
    • Johnny Crawford
    • Mimi Gibson
    • John Bryant
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    • 2User reviews
    • 2Critic reviews
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    • Bobby Adams
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    Mimi Gibson
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    • Lily Rowden
    John Bryant
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    • Sam Adams
    Diane Brewster
    Diane Brewster
    • Ann Rowden
    J. Pat O'Malley
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    • Mike Green
    Russell Johnson
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    • Ben Farraday
    Ziva Rodann
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    • Janet Corday
      • Harold D. Schuster
      • Steve Fisher(screenplay)
      • Anna Sewell(novel)
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      Ann Roden (Diane Brewster) drives a 1956 Lincoln convertible.
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      Featured in Family Classics: Family Classics: Courage of Black Beauty (1962)
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      Written by Edward L. Alperson, Jr. and Paul Herrick

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    3/10
    Not The Horse's Perspective
    Any resemblance between this rather pedestrian film and the Anna Sewall novel is not just coincidental, it's non-existent. Courage Of Black Beauty is about a horse with the name of Black Beauty and that's about it.

    The film begins with the birth of the colt and John Bryant the owner plans to give it to his young son Johnny Crawford who's been staying with his grandmother since his mother died. The kid has been quite the handful. Widower Bryant is also at loose ends because of his wife's death, but he's gotten somewhat interested in widow Diane Brewster with her daughter Mimi Gibson who are Bryant's neighbors.

    Given just what I've told you I think you have some idea where this film is going. Throw in J. Pat O'Malley the old ranch hand and a German Shepherd dog that Mimi Gibson owns and you've got all the ingredients of a kid's film.

    The story Black Beauty which is a children's classic became so because Sewall wrote it from the horse's perspective. Courage Of Black Beauty is definitely not that. It looks like it was shot with a Kodak brownie camera, the production values just aren't there.

    The kids may like it, the grownups will thank the producers they only have 78 minutes of film to endure.
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    • Feb 27, 2010

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      • July 1957 (United States)
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