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Black Beauty (1946)
Directed by Max Nosseck
Overview
Based on Anna Sewell’s novel. In rural England of the 1880’s, widower Squire Wendon is rearing his young daughter Anne. Her father has forbidden her to be present when their mare, “Duchess,” gives birth. Anne sneaks out to the stable, however, and is discovered by her father who forbids her ever to ride Duchess again. Despite this punishment, he gives Anne Duchess’s colt because it is her birthday, and she names him “Black Beauty.”
Length 74 minutes
Actors
J.M. Kerrigan | Mona Freeman | Evelyn Ankers | Leyland Hodgson | Olaf Hytten | Arthur Space | Richard Denning | Terry Kilburn | Clifford Brooke | John Burton | Charles Evans | Moyna MacGill | Tom Dillon | Highland Dale