National Velvet

Pros: Wonderful plot, cozy and homespun, great scenery, excellent acting, and everything else!!!
Cons: it ended

Young Velvet Brown (Elizabeth Taylor) is more than excited when her childhood dream of owning a horse comes true. However, her new prized baby, The Pie, is a wild nuisance, who cannot stop jumping fences and rampaging through Velvet’s cozy little ...

Pros: Elizabeth Taylor's best role; fine story; good sportsmanship all around
Cons: Thick accents sometimes hard to understand

I'd heard about National Velvet for years but never had a chance to see it. Finally, I sat down to watch it a couple nights ago on TCM and was very glad I did. Made in 1944 and starring a 12-year-old Elizabeth Taylor in the role that propelled ...

Pros: great acting by Mickey Rooney, Elizabeth Taylor, Angela Lansbury
Cons: Why aren't they making movies about girls like this today???

All right, I'll admit something: I'm not really good at sports. That's understating it: I'm terrible at sports, except yoga(and even then I had problems) I was always picked last on teams, once when I was watching the Super Bowl over in England and I...

Pros: great cast, stirring horse race, high production values, good script and characters
Cons: Velvet Brown is too good to be true, concluding events unlikely, sentimental and wholesome

National Velvet is widely regarded as a children's classic, with its strongest appeal to preteenaged girls. Not according to imdb.com, however. Their user ratings have the film grading higher with men than with women, while those over 45 give...

Pros: Wonderful acting, good story
Cons: None

Velvet Brown loves horses, particularly her new horse, the Pi. She's sure he can win the biggest horse race in England, the Grand National. With the help of hired hand Mi Taylor, she trains him for the big day. But can a little girl's horse really win...