National Velvet
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Movie Reviews of National Velvet
Movie Review: Read the book and forget the movie
Summary: 1 Stars
I see that many people adore this movie and consider it a classic, and I admit I was ready and willing to love it as well. It is one of my all time favorite books, and I have read it so many times that I have lost count. It is a wonderful tale, but the movie hacks it to peices, the dredges the managled corpse of the book in sugar, and serves it to veiwers. I was heartbroken when I watched it, and could not bring myself to finish it. Hopefully someday someone will make a movie that does justice to the complexity of the characters since this movie did not deliver in any way. My advice is save money and aggrivation and forgot that they even made a movie and just read the book.Movie Review: Poor treatment of a classic
Summary: 2 Stars
"National Velvet" is a wonderful movie, for all ages. Frankly, I'd consider it one of the best "sports" movies ever made. Sadly, Warner Brothers DVD release leaves a lot to be desired. The picture frequently goes out of focus, and the disc is bare-bones....not even the trailer [promised on the DVD jacket] is included.
With Elizabeth Taylor and Mickey Rooney still around, you would have thought they'd have either interviewed them, or gotten a commentary track from them for this classic. It would be worth the price to get a "special edition" release.
Until then, I guess we're stuck with this sorry disk.
Movie Review: Not to be missed
Summary: 5 Stars
Clarence Brown was one of those accomplished American directors who never seemed to get the credit he deserved. This project is certainly his masterpiece. It's usually hyped as a children's picture but it works at all age levels: the apotheosis of the "family" movie. Mickey Rooney delivers the best performance of his amazing career; he should be next on the "lifetime achievment" list of the American movie academy. Brown also extracted equally compelling performances from Elizabeth Taylor, Donald Crisp and Anne Revere; in fact the entire cast. Taylor is a young English girl transported by her love of hayburners and her pure happiness is the central theme of the movie, a subject you don't see treated much anymore. Highly recommended.Movie Review: good but the book is better
Summary: 4 Stars
This movie is good but the book is better. Velvet and her horse go to the grand national where women were not permitted to compete. will they win? lose? find out in national velvet!Movie Review: Horse Crazy!
Summary: 5 Stars
National Velvet is a sweet, inspiring film that will forever be a wonderful classic. Elizabeth Taylor (Velvet Brown) and Mickey Rooney (Mi Taylor) did an incredible job portraying their characters. Elizabeth Taylor only twelve years old, plays the part of a horse crazy little girl who is bound and determined that her horse (Pie) can when the Grand National Steeplechase. Although Pie was not originally her horse, it was enduring to watch how Velvet acquired the 16 hands, 6 foot jumping horse and how small of chance she had to win him. Mickey Rooney played a wonderful role of a frighten ex-jockey who in the beginning did not want any part of the horse business after an accident early in his career. With a spirited young girl, a wonderful horse that was thought to be no good, and an ex-jockey that tried too hard to stay away from horses, a winning story was sure to be produced. Velvet's family also played an important role as her mother (Academy Award winner Anne Revere), the quick tongue lady who could always convince her husband otherwise and Velvet's siblings, that put an emphasis on typical sibling relationships. For it's time, when this film was produced, it was outstanding (Academy Award winning) and now it is even more outstanding. People of all ages can enjoy this film because it's heartwarming with a touch of comedy that seeps into the heart of everyone.