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Post by kunuma1 on Mar 5, 2017 14:05:38 GMT 1
An old fashioned cowboy film with shades of Thunderhead! For anyone who has a soft spot for the American Saddlebred - without any of the horrible deforming additions of modern times - the star is a beautiful true seal brown stallion, and there's a canter on spot for a lovely palomino too. Here's a bit of bumph about it - it's on TCM quite a lot at the moment.
Kanab Utah's Mount Zion National Park had been a reliable backdrop for Hollywood productions going back to the silent era but location photography for The Lion and the Horse (whose original title was The Blue Stallion) benefited from then-new roads laid out for uranium and plutonium prospecting. The locale's 7,500 foot altitude had an adverse effect on the coterie of trained animals trucked in from Los Angeles for shooting. Plagued by lethargy, a lion named Jackie, a skunk named One-Shot, a crow named Jimmy and a squirrel named Nutcake were all treated to time in an oxygen tent; the film's equine actors, most notably the seal brown stallion Supreme Wonder (who was discovered on a ranch in Napa and billed as Wildfire in both publicity releases and the film's credits), were not so hindered, having been ridden onto the location with time to acclimate to the change in altitude.
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Post by Claire on Mar 7, 2017 22:33:41 GMT 1
Thanks for the info Kunuma, I'll have to look it up.
The mind boggles at the thought of a performing skunk!!!
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