My Friend Flicka

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My Friend Flicka ★★★ 1943

Boy makes friends with four-legged beast. Dad thinks the horse is full of wild oats, but young Roddy trains it to be the best gosh darned horse in pre-Disney family faredom. Based on Mary O'Hara book, followed by “Thunderhead, Son of Flicka,” and TV series. 89m/C VHS, DVD . Roddy McDowall, Preston Foster, Rita Johnson, James Bell, Jeff Corey; D: Harold Schuster.