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A young boy receives a rocking horse for Christmas and soon learns that he is able to pick the winning horse at the races.A young boy receives a rocking horse for Christmas and soon learns that he is able to pick the winning horse at the races.A young boy receives a rocking horse for Christmas and soon learns that he is able to pick the winning horse at the races.
Anthony Holles
- Bowler Hat
- (uncredited)
Melanie Mackenzie
- Matilda Grahame
- (uncredited)
Michael Ripper
- 2nd Chauffeur
- (uncredited)
Johnnie Schofield
- 1st Chauffeur
- (uncredited)
Caroline Steer
- Joan Grahame
- (uncredited)
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- TriviaBassett says that he had "... fine plans for teaching Gordon Richards a thing or two...". Gordon Richards (1904 - 1986) was an English jockey. He was the Champion Jockey in British flat horse-racing 26 times, a record that still stands.
- Quotes
[last lines]
Hester Grahame: I wanted to see the end of it, just wanted to be sure it had gone. Gone for good.
Bassett: You won't never see the end of it, ma'am, nor will I. As long as ever we'll live, we'll remember, and we'll know just what it is was done.
- ConnectionsVersion of Winner (1977)
- SoundtracksSilent Night
(uncredited)
Music by Franz Xaver Gruber
English lyrics by John Freeman Young
Sung by the carollers
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A Dark Tale of Compulsion
In London, the teenager Paul Grahame (John Howard Davies) lives with his upper class but financially broken family. His wasteful mother Hester Grahame (Valerie Hobson) is a compulsive buyer, spending all the family money in new expensive dresses, jewels and objects for their home. His father Richard Grahame (Hugh Sinclair) is a gambler, losing money in the horse races. His uncle Oscar Cresswell (Ronald Squire) is permanently covering the Grahame family debts. When the servant Bassett (John Mills) is hired, Paul finds that he can predict the winner of the horses' races rocking his wooden horse. Paul asks Bassett to become his partner, betting their money in the races, trying to prove that he is lucky and silencing the permanent whisper of the house needing more money. But the prize is high and fatal.
"The Rocking Horse Winner" is a dark tale of compulsion of D. H. Lawrence. I have never read his short story, and I did not feel any sexual connotation as mentioned in some reviews that I have glanced. The story is very disturbing and quite unpleasant, with great direction and performances, especially of Valerie Hobson in the role of a compulsive shallow woman. My vote is seven.
Title (Brazil): "O Cavalo Campeão" ("The Horse Winner")
"The Rocking Horse Winner" is a dark tale of compulsion of D. H. Lawrence. I have never read his short story, and I did not feel any sexual connotation as mentioned in some reviews that I have glanced. The story is very disturbing and quite unpleasant, with great direction and performances, especially of Valerie Hobson in the role of a compulsive shallow woman. My vote is seven.
Title (Brazil): "O Cavalo Campeão" ("The Horse Winner")
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- Dobitnik sa drvenog konjića
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- Denham Studios, Denham, Buckinghamshire, England, UK(studio: made at Denham Studios, London, England)
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- Runtime1 hour 31 minutes
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- 1.37 : 1
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By what name was The Rocking Horse Winner (1949) officially released in India in English?
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