Directed by Henry Hathaway
My rating: 2.5 stars out of 4
IMDb
(Fox Movie Channel)
Harness racing in Indiana is the setting for this slice of rural Americana. Sparke (pronounced Sparky) is an orphan dumped on some cousins who own a dilapidated horse ranch. Walter Brennan knows horses but gets drunk and reminisces about the good old days. Sparke befriends a wealthy neighbor's horse and secretly studs it out to get his own filly. He trains it with the help of Brennan and his daughter Char to become a race horse. The teen romance between Sparke and Char is all "gee whiz" and "golly" and threatens to drag down the whole movie. The horse parts are just barely good enough to save it.
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