MY FRIEND FLICKA
LTHOUGH our little man _is not prepared to stand up in his stirrups to express his enthusiasm for this picture, those people-we_ have
all met some of them — who regard horses as being far more lovable, intelligent, and beautiful than humans, will undoubtedly hail it as the best picture of this or any other year (as the adver-tisement-writers so reticently put it). _ All through this 89-minute Technicolour _ version of Mary O’Hara’s novel; droves of magnificent horses gallop, canter, or browse across sun-drenched vistas of lovely Utah scenery, with the camera’s attention focused mainly on one of them, a little sorrel filly. The film’s equestrian and scenic attractions are so great that one is likely to overlook that the seven human members of the cast act almost as naturally as the horses-particularly Roddy McDowall as the small boy who learns to grow up through being given the wild filly to tame and cherish. In telling this simple, idyllic story the director has kept himself under close rein: there is a commendable absence of mawkish sentiment. Only the colour cameraman is allowed to take the bit between his teeth, and no one should begrudge him the opportunity.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 11, Issue 273, 15 September 1944, Page 20
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198MY FRIEND FLICKA New Zealand Listener, Volume 11, Issue 273, 15 September 1944, Page 20
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