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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
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A horse story classic,
This review is from: Thunderhead - Son of Flicka (DVD)
I willnever tire of this Classic story about a young boy coming of age during the time when real men road the ranges and spoke to a woman with kind loving words. This moives holds much history both in cimema and in Good Old American family values.This story shows how a young boy learns responibility of becoming a man by learning how to raise his own wild stallion. A sotry of trust and courage to prove not just his own abilities in himself but to prove to his father that he can make responible decisions and same the family ranch from a wild Albino stallion who is stealing the vital investmate keeping the ranch going - the mares!
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Good looking family film,
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This review is from: Thunderhead - Son of Flicka (DVD)
"Thunderhead - Son of Flicka" (1945) is the enjoyable follow-up to the 1943 semi-classic "My Friend Flicka." Both films feature teen star Roddy McDowall as Ken McLaughlin, who is the son of horse ranchers. When Ken's horse, Flicka, gives birth to a colt, Ken decides to name him Goblin and predicts that he will be a great racehorse. His family is skeptical, and the horse proves to be like his mother, with a mind of his own. Ken struggles to even break Goblin, let alone get him to race, but eventually the young horse blossoms into a magnificent white stallion who they rename Thunderhead. Things take a turn for the horse when a wild albino stallion begins to cause problems in the nearby canyons. Eventually these two plotlines converge, and all turns out well.Based on the children's book by Mary O'Hara, "Thunderhead" has a pretty basic and predictable plot. However, the beautiful scenery and warm family feeling of the film help raise this above the typical throw-away 40s western. The film was shot in beautiful Technicolor and looks quite handsome. Roddy McDowall was, of course, British and he seems to make no effort to hide his accent; so Ken speaks like a prim English school boy even though the film takes place in Wyoming, and his screen parents (Preston Foster & Rita Johnson) are American actors with no discernible accents. The effect is somewhat jarring. The film also features a surprisingly gruesome ending, although most of the action takes place off camera. All in all, "Thunderhead" is a decent flick that will probably appeal most to young children and horse lovers (well except for that gruesome finale!). A 1948 film, "Green Grass of Wyoming," continues the story, although without McDowall or the other original actors.
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Thunderhead,
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It was my favorite childhood movie and I just had to get it on DVD so I can have it forever.
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