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- 1945
- Approved
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
- 2 h 3 m
- 1945
- Approved
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
- 2 h 3 m
Summary A jaded former jockey (Mickey Rooney) helps a young girl (Elizabeth Taylor) prepare a wild but gifted horse for England's Grand National Sweepstakes.
Directed By: Clarence Brown
Written By: Enid Bagnold, Theodore Reeves, Helen Deutsch, Howard Dimsdale
- 1945
- Approved
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
- 2 h 3 m
- 1945
- Approved
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
- 2 h 3 m
National Velvet
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Summary A jaded former jockey (Mickey Rooney) helps a young girl (Elizabeth Taylor) prepare a wild but gifted horse for England's Grand National Sweepstakes.
Directed By: Clarence Brown
Written By: Enid Bagnold, Theodore Reeves, Helen Deutsch, Howard Dimsdale
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 15 Critic Reviews
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87% Positive
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13% Mixed
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 15 Critic Reviews
83
87% Positive
13 Reviews
13 Reviews
13% Mixed
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
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Inspirational, heart-rending and the movie that made Taylor a star - what more do you want? [19 May 2007, p.9S]
A children's classic and among the best family movies of all time. [19 Feb 2006, p.2]
One of the most likable movies of all time.
Perhaps the only time Elizabeth Taylor's costar matched her visual scene stealing. He's a horse, albeit a gelding. One of MGM's most beloved films, NATIONAL VELVET was the picture that made a star out of Taylor.
A good movie for kids and armchair Freudians (1944), with 12-year-old Elizabeth Taylor training her pet horse for the Grand National.
Pandro Berman, the producer, and Clarence Brown, the director, have made it into a conservatively exciting and engaging film whose chief virtue is its acting, especially a letter-perfect, beautifully felt performance by Mickey Rooney as the jockey.
As the parents of a busy family in an early 20th-century English hamlet, Donald Crisp and Anne Revere save this treacly family drama from choking on its own sentimentality.
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Awards
Academy Awards, USA
• 2 Wins & 5 Nominations
National Film Preservation Board, USA
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Venice Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
