The Rocking Horse Winner (1950)
- Directed by
- Anthony Pelissier
- Genre
- drama film, fantasy film
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Runtime
- 1h 31m
- Rated
- NR
- Rating
- 6.5 of 10 from 25 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
A young boy discovers he can predict horse race winners by riding his rocking horse into a trance. He tries to help his financially struggling family, but his gift comes with a heavy and tragic cost.
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What happens
The Rocking Horse Winner is a 1949 British fantasy film directed by Anthony Pellisier and starring Valerie Hobson, John Howard Davies and Ronald Squire. It was written by Pellisier as an adaptation of the 1926 D. H. Lawrence short story The Rocking-Horse Winner. A young boy can pick winners in horse races with life-changing accuracy. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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