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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 9781419817045
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
ISBN: 1419817043
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: February 07, 2006
Running Time: 93 minutes
Sales Rank: 53042
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: November 12, 1949
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Product Description:
Sixteen times out of the starting gate. Zero times in the Winner's Circle. Those were the humble beginnings of the undersized underdog bay colt who became one of the greatest thoroughbreds in horseracing history. With actual racing footage of "the Biscuit" The Story of Seabiscuit mixes fact and fancy into an endearing tale of rags-to-riches success. Shirley Temple plays the student nurse whose romance with the colt's jockey (Lon McAllister) is clouded by her fears about a sport in which a 100-pound rider must command 1000 pounds of thundering horseflesh. And Barry Fitzgerald charmingly scores as the trainer who sizes up the short-legged bulky-kneed colt and sees what no one else sees: the makings of a champion. The flag is up!Running Time: 93 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA UPC: 012569676725 Manufacturer No: 67672
Amazon.com:
Although it blithely rewrites the history of a legendary race horse, The Story of Seabiscuit is still an appealing example of Technicolor entertainment from Hollywood's studio system. It wasn't unusual for contract players (in this case Shirley Temple, Barry Fitzgerald, and Lon McAllister) to play fictional characters in fact-based stories, since factual fidelity was often considered a secondary priority. That's why this blandly charming drama makes no mention of the legendary Seabiscuit's actual trainer Tom Smith or jockey Red Pollard, who were duly recognized in 2003's Seabiscuit, based on Laura Hillenbrand's historically accurate 2001 bestseller. McAllister plays a loose rendition of Pollard (including his accidental chest injury), wooing a race-phobic nurse (Temple) while "the Biscuit" is trained for championship by luck-of-the-Irish Fitzgerald. A bit quaint by modern standards, but ironically, this is the only movie that features the real Seabiscuit in action, since vintage race footage is included in the black-and-white newsreel interludes. Plus, a bonus featurette from 1946 offers a still-valid primer on the backstage details of horseracing. --Jeff Shannon
Average Rating: 
Rating:  -
This is probably the worst horse racing film I've ever seen (another contender for that title is one about Black Gold that showed Anthony Quinn couldn't act worth a darn when he started out). There are almost no facts in it about Seabiscuit. The acting and writing is low-quality. The Irish trainer stuff is pure fiction. I wonder if most of the real people involved in Seabiscuit's life refused to sign releases, so they blatantly fictionalized them. The bizarre thing about this film was that it ... Read More
Rating:  -
If you are simply in search of a factual account of the life and times of Seabiscuit, this is not the DVD to consider. But this 1949 release delivers on a variety of other tracks to make it a nice addition to the collection.
The movie includes rare race newsreel footage of Seabiscuit, is a great representative of Technicolor and has a script which features Shirley Temple.
The fictional story is of Thoroughbred trainer Shawn O'Hara (Barry Fitzgerald) and his niece, Margaret ... Read More
Rating:  -
love this movie! shirley temple is GREAT. i've often heard that she bombed as an actress once she grew up, this is great proof that she didn't. just started watching it one day on tcm, and i was hooked thru the rest of the movie. i only wish i had seen it earlier, probably would have been one of my favorite movies growing up!
Rating: -
An excellent movie for the whole family,with believable performances by the entire cast.this original is far better then the latest release.
*****stars
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this is a wonderful story.The filming wes magnificent.Many truly great racing moments.
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