Rating: NR
Genre:
Children's/Family
Release Date: 02/06/2007
SubTitles: English/Espanol
Dubbed: English/Espanol
Sound: DD1/DD2
Run Time: 89 Minutes
Flags: Child Classic
Distributor/Studio: 20th Century Fox
An utterly enchanting Technicolor filmization of
Mary O'Hara's novel,
My Friend Flicka is the story of a beautiful colt and the boy (
Roddy McDowell) who loves her. The boy's rancher father (
Preston S. Foster) isn't keen on the horse that his son chooses to train: Flicka, the offspring of a tempestuous mare that has shown traces of madness. The training of Flicka is an arduous process for both boy and horse, and there are times that it appears that father was right. But by applying both love and perseverance, the boy raises the colt into a magnificent specimen.
My Friend Flicka was filmed in the Rocky Mountains on a near-epic scale by director
Harold Schuster and cinematographer
Dewey Wrigley. The film was popular enough to spawn two theatrical sequels and a 1956 weekly TV series.
~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide