The Red Stallion
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Cast & Crew
Lesley Selander
Robert Paige
Noreen Nash
Ted Donaldson
Jane Darwell
Ray Collins
Film Details
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Synopsis
Grandma Aggie, who runs a horse ranch with her orphaned grandson, Joel Curtis, will be forced into a sheriff's sale unless she can raise thousands of dollars in thirty days. Determined to help Aggie, Joel decides to train his stallion, Red, which he has raised from a colt, to race. At the neighboring Moresby Farms, Joel gets ranch hand Andy McBride to convince Mr. Moresby's horse trainer, Ellen Reynolds, to run a test race with Red against Moresby's prize horse, Black Moor. Although Red is fast, he has not been trained to follow the inside rail, and loses. Moresby promises, however, that if Joel can show him a horse that can beat Black Moor, he will buy it from him. As the auction approaches, Joel and his devoted Indian ranch hand, Ho-Na, train Red nightly on the Moresby track with the help of Joel's little dog, Curley. The night before the auction, Ellen and Andy promise Joel that Moresby will take another look at Red in the morning. In the woods, Red becomes entangled in a fight with a bear, however, and is too tired to run. At the sheriff's sale the next day, Red is about to be auctioned, when Joel rides off on him to the Moresby track in time for the race, and beats Black Moor. Granny then convinces Moresby to make Joel a partner in Red's ownership. As Joel hugs Red, Ellen and Andy walk off arm-in-arm, and Granny and Moresby exit the track. Curley then joins the mother of his puppies in the barn.
Director
Lesley Selander
Cast
Robert Paige
Noreen Nash
Ted Donaldson
Jane Darwell
Ray Collins
Guy Kibbee
Willie Best
Robert Bice
Pierre Watkin
Bill Cartledge
Daisy, The Dog
Big Red, A Horse
Emmett Vogan
Crew
Fred Allen
Ridgeway Callow
Alfred Degaetano
Dorothy Drake
Emmett Emerson
Eunice
Rolla Flora
Bryan Foy
Irving Friedman
Gar Gilbert
Jack Greenhalgh
J. N. A. Hawkins
Frederick Hollander
Edward Jewell
Robert E. Kent
Howard Koch
Armor Marlowe
Virgil Miller
Benny Rubin
Noel Smith
Perry Smith
Clarence Steenson
Ben Stoloff
George J. Teague
Bud Westmore
Crane Wilbur
Ben Winkler
Film Details
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According to Hollywood Reporter, portions of this film were shot near Mt. Shasta, and in Dunsmuir, CA. Hollywood Reporter also noted that during production, which went grossly over-schedule due to bad weather, the film's budget was raised from $1,000,000 to $1,500,000. Erville Alderson is listed in the role of "Dr. Thompson" in an early draft of the CBCS.
