How Hollywood Would Not Let Facts Get In The Way Of A Script

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	• The Story of Seabiscuit (Keep Case) Shirley Temple, Barry Fitzgerald Warner Home Video, 2006 average customer review:based on 19 reviews view larger image
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better than the new

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!

The Story of Seabiscuit (Snap Case)

this is a wonderful story.The filming wes magnificent.Many truly great racing moments.

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The Story of Seabiscuit

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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How Hollywood Would Not Let Facts Get In The Way Of A Script

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 (Temple), who arrive in America after the death of her brother, who was a jockey. O'Hara is the trainer of the young, gangly Seabiscuit and tries hard to convince owner Charles Howard (Pierre Watkin) that he has a possible champion in his stable.

Meanwhile, Margaret falls in love with jockey Ted Knowles (Lon McCallister) and will marry him only if he gives up the sport. But Shawn O'Hara has a different plan; he feels Knowles aboard The Biscuit is a winning exacta and must convince his niece and Howard that his plan is the best for everyone.

Howard is the only real person portrayed in the story and - in actuality - was impressed enough in the potential of Seabiscuit to purchase him from a major stable, who was using the young runner as a hard-knocker, racing him as often as possible at a number of tracks.

A period piece when Hollywood would not let facts get in the way of a script, The Story of Seabiscuit enters the winner's circle by depicting triumph over tragedy and the fear brought on by self-doubt.

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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

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