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starring: Dean Jones, Diane Baker, Lloyd Bochner, Fred Clark, Ellen Janovdirected by: Norman Tokar
Audience Rating: G (General Audience)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9780788806742
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC
ISBN: 0788806742
Label: Walt Disney Video
Manufacturer: Walt Disney Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Walt Disney Video
Release Date: January 14, 2003
Running Time: 113 minutes
Sales Rank: 6401
Studio: Walt Disney Video
Theatrical Release Date: 1968
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Description:
This fast-paced, rollicking Disney adventure combines fatherly love and corporate survival with exciting horseplay and budding romance. The highjinks begin when harassed New York advertising executive Fred Bolton (Dean Jones) acquires a horse for his painfully shy daughter as part of a hurriedly conceived promotional campaign. With help from an attractive riding instructor (Diane Baker), and his daughter's would-be boyfriend (Kurt Russell), Fred hopes the horse will bring his client fame, save his own job, and just maybe finance his daughter's expensive equestrian habit! AS must-see for every Disney fan and lover of good wholesome old-fashioned fun..
Amazon.com:
Dean Jones has a typical '60s occupation: ad man. Widower Fred Bolton is in need of a fantastic campaign to promote the stomach pill Aspercel. And in typical Disney get-a-kid-and-animal-in-there fashion, he makes the contrived decision to accommodate his sweet teen daughter Helen's longing for a horse, and advance the elusive ad campaign. Fred figures if he and Helen (Ellen Janov, in her only film role) can make a champion of the horse (now named, you guessed it, Aspercel), the name will get in the papers and Helen will have her horse. Complications arise when Helen reveals she hates riding in shows. Fortunately, her riding teacher, the beautiful Suzie Clemens (underrated Diane Baker), agrees to take up the cause, and sparks a little romance with the ambitious dad. The trio have a challenging competition and Suzie's ex, the wealthy and conceited Archer Madison (Lloyd Bochner, in a role he played often), to deal with, but as with all Disney films, good and earnest triumphs over smug and self-satisfied. Look for a young Kurt Russell, who has little to do but grace the movie (and Helen) with a little teen idolness. His introduction into the film--driving a red convertible MG--is hilarious. A sweet, easy-to-watch, harmless--if a little forgettable--film. (Ages 4 and older) --N.F. Mendoza
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating: - the Horse in the Gray Flannel Suit
This is one of our all time favorite movies! Our old VHS copy was getting pretty worn so we were thrilled to find it on DVD. It is truly a must see for every horse crazy little girl (and her mom)
Rating: - Nice horse story / family movie
Nice movie about a girl and her horse. Hunter / jumper theme. None of the horses get hurt so it's a happy movie if one needs a lift.
Rating: - one of my top 3 favorite horse movies!
as a teen , i love horses, and when I found out about this movie, I watched it and loved it. any horse lover would like this movie, although kids might not understand buisness and stuff on this movie but anyone even my parents love iT!
Rating: - Great gift for a horse lover
I bought this movie as a Christmas present for my wife who recently started dressage lessons. She loves it and watches it regularly. I enjoy it and can understand Dean Jone's character. Good, clean, and fun classic Disney.
Rating: - Loved it since I was a kid
I have loved watching this movie since I was a child because it doesn't have bad language, nudity or violence. It is a movie that everyone in the family can sit down and enjoy. Bonus is that it is about a horse!
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