Search - Black Beauty on DVD

MPAA Rating: G Content Advisory: Excellent For Children Movie Release: 1971 DVD Release: 10/05/2004 Format: DVD - Enhanced Wide Screen Letterbox for 16x9 TV - Closed Captioned Edition: Special Collection Audio Tracks: English Subtitles: English SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 1 hrs 46 mins Studio: Paramount Total Copies: 1 Genres: Adventure, Children's/Family, Animal Picture, Family-Oriented Adventure See Also: Black Beauty [Circuit City Exclusive] [Checkpoint]

This internationally produced adaptation of Anna Sewell's Black Beauty is essentially a vehicle for Oliver star Mark Lester. The young Lester spends most of the film trying to reclaim his beautiful black horse, which passes through several hands over the course of 90 minutes. All the setpieces of the Sewell original are in attendance, including the showstopping "burning barn" sequence. Walter Slezak is the only truly recognizable actor in the film outside of Lester. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Mark Lester - Joe Evans
Uschi Glas - Marie
Walter Slezak - Hackenschmidt
Peter Lee Lawrence - Gervaise
John Nettleton - Sir William Piggot

James Hill's 1971 adaptation of Black Beauty gallops onto DVD with a widescreen anamorphic transfer that preserves the original theatrical aspect ratio of the film. The English soundtrack is rendered in Dolby Digital Mono. English subtitles are accessible. This is a fine-looking disc, but there is little else about it that can be recommended. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide