July 10 at 11am - THE RED PONY -UCLA's family movie at Hammer Museum

We seem to be seeing a lot of horse movies these days.   We saw BUCK last night in a preview screening and very highly recommend this documentary movie whether you like horses or not ...as Buck puts it, "Your horse is a mirror to your soul, and sometimes you may not like what you see. Sometimes, you will." So says Buck Brannaman, a true American cowboy and sage on horseback who travels the country for nine grueling months a year helping horses with people problems."

For more info on BUCK, see:
http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/independent/buck/
http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory?id=13837221
http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/blogssundanceblog/51115974-50/horse-brannaman-buck-bond.html.csp

But here is a free 1949 movie to add to your list of horse-movies :)

http://www.cinema.ucla.edu/events/2011-07-10/red-pony-1949

UCLA Film & Television Archive and the Hammer Museum present

The Red Pony (1949)

July 10, 2011 - 11:00 am

Billy Wilder Theater

Free Admission!

Preserved by Paramount Pictures with funding provided by The Film Foundation.  Print courtesy of The Film Foundation.

Directed by Lewis Milestone

A boy needs a pony to become a man in this big screen, Technicolor adaptation of the classic coming-of-age story written by John Steinbeck. A farmer’s son, Tom daydreams of knights and circuses, a lively inner-life wonderfully realized by director Lewis Milestone, until farmhand Billy Buck, played by Mitchum, makes him a present of a newborn red pony, a gift that will soon bring with it hard won lessons in responsibility and love.

RKO. Producer: Lewis Milestone. Based on the novel by John Steinbeck. Screenwriter: John Steinbeck. Cinematographer: Tony Gaudio.  Editor: Harry Keller. Cast: Myrna Loy, Robert Mitchum, Louis Calhern, Shepperd Strudwick, Peter Miles.

35mm, color, 89 min.

Recommended for ages 8+

Part of: 

Family Flicks