Gypsy Colt (1954)

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Country: USA
Genres: Drama, Family, Western
Release: 1954-04-02
Director: Andrew Marton
Writers: Eric Knight , Martin Berkeley
Language: English | Spanish
Stars: Donna Corcoran , Ward Bond , Frances Dee , Larry Keating , Lee Van Cleef , Robert Hyatt , Nacho Galindo , Rodolfo Hoyos Jr. , Joe Dominguez , Bobby Dominguez
Runtime: 72 min
Awards: N/A
AKA: Den svarta hästen (Sweden) , Ædelt blod (Denmark) , Treue (Austria) , Inseparáveis (Portugal, Portuguese Republic) , Gypsy Colt (United Kingdom) , Gypsy Colt (United States of America) , Le poulain noir (France, French Republic) , Treue , Kahraman Kanı (Turkey) , Bichinho de Estimação (Brazil) , Zingaro (Italy) , Gypsy Colt , Le Poulain noir (Belgium) , Het zwarte veulen (Belgium) , Musta karkuri (Finland) , Gypsy Colt (Canada)
Plot: Lassie comes home (again) but this time as a horse. Eric Knight shouldn't have to had break a sweat writing this "original" with the only difference in the basic plot line (from "Lassie Comes Home") being that a horse, rather than a dog, has to make the arduous journey back to it's young master (a girl rather than a boy) and a locale change from England to the American West. It begins in a drought-stricken region where Frank and Em MacWade dread to tell their young daughter, Meg, that her beloved colt Gypsy has been sold, for financial reasons, as a potential race horse. The horse breaks away from its new owner twice, and is admonished by Meg each time, before the horse is transported 500 miles away to a race track. But Gypsy escapes again and begins his 500-mile trek back to his young mistress. On his trek back, he has encounters with a group of cowboys, a gang of wild motorcyclists and a young Mexican boy, in addition to the terrain problems. Gypsy one-ups Lassie as he also brings a drought-breaking rain with him when he gets back home.
IMDB:tt0047059