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ive got secratariat, phar lap, champion (aldaniti), seabiscuit
are there any other good racing films out there on dvd
vf
i have phar lap, secretariat and seabiscuit, and drteamer
im trying to get hold of ruffian and shergar, not cost alot, but need region 2, ive searched on ebay bu they all region 1’s anyone by any chance know where i can get my hand on these films in reion 2
and are there any other good racng themed films out there?
vf
There is a film called "The Cup" which came out in Australia last October. Its about the Melbourne cup race which Damion Oliver riding Media Puzzle for Dermot Weld won after Damion’s brother died race riding in Perth 2 weeks or so before the Cup was due to be run.
I don’t know if you can get it either on DVD or by downloading it. It hasn’t been shown in the cinema’s here in England but I don’t think it was particularly a "box office hit" in Australia.
I went to see it on the day it came out and there was only my woman, me, and one other couple watching it in that cinema!
National Velvet
A Day at the Races (Marx Brothers film)
Champions
Sporting Blood (Clark Gable’s first starring role, in the credits the film is dedicated to "Man-O’-War, Zev, Crusader, Fair Play, Gallant Fox, Twenty-Grand and all the heroes of the turf and track")
Saratoga (Jean Harlow’s last film)
Thoroughbreds Don’t Cry (stars Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland)
Casey’s Shadow
The Great Dan PatchThere was on old b/w one called Derby Day (1952) which starred, among others, Googie Withers, later of Within These Walls.
Anyone remember the film where the kid foretells future winners by going into a trance on a rocking horse?
There’s a film about Mill Reef called, ‘Something To Brighten The Morning’
Just My Luck starring Norman Wisdom was on BBC a few weeks ago.
Let It Ride with Richard Dreyfuss.
The Calendar (1948) based on the book by Edgar Wallace.
Dick Francis’s Dead Cert with Dame Judi Dench!!
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071394/
The is a film loosely based on a horse race, of 3,000 miles.
Hidalgo
starring Viggo Mortensen from Lord of the Rings trilogy.
Plot summary
In 1891, wealthy Sheikh Riyadh (Omar Sharif) sends his attaché Aziz (Adam Alexi-Malle) to invite American Frank Hopkins (Viggo Mortensen), and his mustang, Hidalgo, to enter the "Ocean of Fire," an annual 3,000-mile survival race across the Najd desert region, a race traditionally restricted to pure-bred Arabian horses.
Hopkins had been a cowboy and a dispatch rider for the United States government. In this capacity, he had carried a message to the U.S. 7th Cavalry Regiment, authorizing the attack at Wounded Knee that resulted in massacre of a band of Lakota Sioux.
While working as a stunt rider in Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show, Hopkins and his horse are advertised as "the world’s greatest distance horse and rider". The Arabs consider the al-Khamsa line to be the greatest distance horses. Aziz asks the show to stop using that phrase or to allow Hopkins and Hidalgo to enter the race and prove themselves.
The American cowboy and his mustang are placed against the world’s greatest Arabian horses and Bedouin riders, some of whom are determined to prevent a foreigner—and especially an "impure" horse—from finishing the race. For Hopkins, the Ocean of Fire becomes not only a matter of pride and honor but a race for his survival, as he and his horse attempt the near-impossible desert crossing. He intends to use the purse for saving mustangs. They were important to the Indians, who trained and used them, but the US government was trying to eliminate them to convert the Indians to farming.
Throughout the race, competitors try to kill Hopkins and Hidalgo. Chief adversaries include the wealthy, spoiled British aristocrat Lady Anne Davenport (Louise Lombard), who owns a rival Arabian horse and is used to getting her own way. Another is the Sheikh’s nephew, who wishes, contrary to his uncle’s decree, to marry his cousin, the sheikh’s daughter Jazira (Zuleikha Robinson). A spirited girl and a horse-rider in her own right, she is rescued by Hopkins from a raid in which the Sheikh’s nephew hoped to force her marriage by dishonoring her. She grows to trust the American.
A recurring theme in the film is the fact that Hopkins’ father was European American and his mother a member of the Native American Lakota tribe. The Lakota call him "Blue Child" or "Far Rider". As a half-breed, he feels sympathy and pity for his mother’s people, who are being driven to extinction by the settlers. However, he does not generally reveal his heritage, especially after the Wounded Knee massacre, for which he feels partly responsible. Jazira compares his relation to his heritage to her desire to avoid wearing a veil, saying that he mustn’t "go through life hiding what God made you…. like me."
Near the end of the race, Hidalgo is severely injured and Hopkins is dying of thirst. As he hallucinates, by Lakota tradition he sings a prayer to Wakan Tanka as his death song. But Hidalgo struggles up, and Hopkins rides bareback to finish the race, which he wins. After Hopkins returns to the United States, he buys many mustangs which would have been killed by the Government in an effort to control Indians. He releases the horses, including Hidalgo, into the wild.Also, a new film has just been released, "Outside Bet". See
IMdb link:-http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1772422/
The film to which Hammy refers is "The Rocking Horse Winner".
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042898/
It`s quite a dark film, and also there`s some nice old footage of
Goodwood.Anyone remember the film where the kid foretells future winners by going into a trance on a rocking horse?
We should get this kid to post in the Daily lays and Plays Area, unless now that he is grown up the Racing Post have already signed him up and renamed him Postdata
Dick Francis’s Dead Cert with Dame Judi Dench!!
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071394/
Might have to look a copy of that one up at Amazon. Love my DF novels.
Also, a new film has just been released, "Outside Bet". See
IMdb link:-http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1772422/
The film to which Hammy refers is "The Rocking Horse Winner".
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042898/
It`s quite a dark film, and also there`s some nice old footage of
Goodwood.That’s the one. It’s not a bad film from what I can remember.
im trying to get hold of ruffian and shergar, not cost alot, but need region 2, ive searched on ebay bu they all region 1’s anyone by any chance know where i can get my hand on these films in reion 2
vfYou could always rip any film from region 1 to an
.avi file
etc. and then convert it using a program like
ConvertXtoDVD 4
and re-burn it to the region of your choice.
Another film is
Racing Stripes 2005
about a Zebra who thinks he is a racehorse, I have been known to watch anything when bored…
What about the Belles of St Trinians?
How can you have forgotten Arab Boy and the Cheltenham Gold Cup?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Belles … rinian%27sBit of turf action in Get Carter as well:
At 6:29 onwards:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTVo0V_oyR8But BEST OF ALL, Brighton Rock. Ida Arnold (played by the great hermione baddeley) in the enviable position of having -as I remember – a 10/1 winner in Black Boy, with some nice footage of the races at Brighton and an exciting finish.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XB1HWgl2 … re=related
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