National Velvet

Name: National Velvet
Released: 1944-12-14
Cast: Mickey Rooney, Donald Crisp, Elizabeth Taylor, Anne Revere, Angela Lansbury

National Velvet

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2h 3m
1944

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Academy Award winners Elizabeth Taylor and Mickey Rooney star in this children's classic about the friendship that develops between a headstrong jockey and a young English girl as they work together to turn an "unbreakable" horse into a champion.

Director:

Clarence Brown

Producer:

Pandro S. Berman

Writer:

Helen Deutsch, Theodore Reeves

Cast:

Mickey Rooney, Donald Crisp, Elizabeth Taylor, Anne Revere, Angela Lansbury, Jackie 'Butch' Jenkins, Juanita Quigley, Arthur Treacher, Reginald Owen, Norma Varden, Terry Kilburn

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

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Critics Consensus: National Velvet makes the most of a breakout performance from Elizabeth Taylor, delivering a timeless family-friendly tearjerker that avoids straying into the sentimental.

Reviews

Film Frenzy

Matt Brunson

A good bet for a family night in front of the TV.

See this movie for little Elizabeth Taylor's precocious, bravura performance. Her face is alive with refreshing joy; her voice has the breathlessness of wanting to embrace the whole wondrous world, but having too little time.

A richly satisfying movie.

Donald Crisp and Anne Revere save this treacly family drama from choking on its own sentimentality.

Pandro Berman, the producer, and Clarence Brown, the director, have made it into a conservatively exciting and engaging film whose chief virtue is its acting, especially a letter-perfect, beautifully felt performance by Mickey Rooney as the jockey.

June 22, 2017

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