Movie Type: Family-Oriented Adventure, Animal Picture
Themes: Horses, Obsessive Quests, Finding a Way Back Home
Main Cast: Mark Lester, Uschi Glas, Walter Slezak, Peter Lee Lawrence, John Nettleton
Release Year: 1971
Country: ES/UK/WG
Run Time: 90 minutes
Plot
This internationally produced adaptation of Anna Sewell's Black Beauty is essentially a vehicle for Oliver star Mark Lester. The young Lester spends most of the film trying to reclaim his beautiful black horse, which passes through several hands over the course of 90 minutes. All the setpieces of the Sewell original are in attendance, including the showstopping "burning barn" sequence. Walter Slezak is the only truly recognizable actor in the film outside of Lester. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Patrick Mower - Sam Greene; Fernando Bilbao - Mungo; Patrick Gardiner - O'Flaherty; Clive Geraghty - Roger; Ursula Glas - Maria; Eddie Golden - Evans; Johnny Hoey - Muldoon; Margaret Lacey - Anna Sewell; Brian McGrath - Mark Beauchamp; Ricardo Palacios - Russian General; Maria Rohm - Anne Piggot; Vincente Rola - Flying Fred; Jose Nieto - Lorent; Luis Induni - Sergeant; John Franklyn - Coalman; Daniel Martin - Lieutenant
Credit
James H. Hill - Director, Ann Chegwidden - Editor, Pablo Gonzalez del Amo - Editor, Tony Tenser - Executive Producer, Lionel Bart - Composer (Music Score), John Cameron - Composer (Music Score), Fernando Arribas - Cinematographer, Chris Menges - Cinematographer, Peter L. Andrews - Producer, Malcolm Heyworth - Producer, Wolf Mankowitz - Screenwriter, Anna Sewell - Short Story Author
