Just watched it again yesterday.
Been looking for some production notes on the filming of the climactic race at the end of this film, and I cannot find any. There were numerous shots of horses falling over the jumps, some on top of each other, some on top of jockeys, some with jockeys being thrown violently on the turf and clearly injured. Was this an actual race? If it was, how could there be some traveling shots, with the camera on a car moving along with the racing horses? Was it some kind of montage of shots of the real race combined with staged sections filmed on the same track?
However it was done, nobody seems to have wanted to talk or write about it. I don't care how "heartwarming" this film is supposed to be. It depicts injury to animals who were being hurt and injury to the men who were being thrown and crushed under them. These were not staged scenes; they were real. Such things should not be exhibited (for a ticket price) as entertainment.
Most of us are aware that in the golden days of Hollywood they didn't worry too much about this, but the film should have more than a few points off for it and not be celebrated so much.
Been looking for some production notes on the filming of the climactic race at the end of this film, and I cannot find any. There were numerous shots of horses falling over the jumps, some on top of each other, some on top of jockeys, some with jockeys being thrown violently on the turf and clearly injured. Was this an actual race? If it was, how could there be some traveling shots, with the camera on a car moving along with the racing horses? Was it some kind of montage of shots of the real race combined with staged sections filmed on the same track?
However it was done, nobody seems to have wanted to talk or write about it. I don't care how "heartwarming" this film is supposed to be. It depicts injury to animals who were being hurt and injury to the men who were being thrown and crushed under them. These were not staged scenes; they were real. Such things should not be exhibited (for a ticket price) as entertainment.
Most of us are aware that in the golden days of Hollywood they didn't worry too much about this, but the film should have more than a few points off for it and not be celebrated so much.