WAR HORSE
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Sylvie Hebert
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LOVED this movie when I was a kid!!! General Patton made arrangements for the royal stud in Czechloslovakia to be evacuated. The horses got a military escort to France, I think.
At any rate, Col. Alois Podhajski, the director of the Spanish Riding School of Vienna during WWII, was also written into "White Stallion of Lippiza" by Marguerite Henry.
LOVED this movie when I was a kid!!! General Patton made arrangements for the royal stud in Czechloslovakia to be evacuated. The horses got a military escort to France, I think.
At any rate, Col. Alois Podhajski, the director of the Spanish Riding School of Vienna during WWII, was also written into "White Stallion of Lippiza" by Marguerite Henry.
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Shammy Davis
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Xfactor Fan wrote:
I recall the movie that Kari mentioned. When General Patton was stationed at the Pentagon as a Colonel, he and retired General Billy Mitchell (Army Air Corps) were both MFH in Northern VA. Both wore top hats with their "pinks" rather than the traditional hunt cap. As you would suspect, both were quite dapper and excellent riders. There is a great book (no longer in print) I believe titled HUNT COUNTRY USA, that has a number of pictures of both Patton and Mithcell at northern VA hunts.
I just finished reading WAR HORSE by Michael Morpurgo. I highly recommend it. It is a an extremely honest, yet positive read. It is a beautifully written story and at a few points, this old Marine was brought to tears. I was able to relate to this story as our platoon in Vietnam on a number of occasions patrolled and operated with what are now referred to as "war dogs." Two of those dogs were killed, one being dispatched by its own handler after being mortally wounded by a boobytrapped grenade. To this day, I recall the frantic efforts of their handlers to save them and in particular the courage of the young Marine (also wounded by the greande) who had to dispatch his own dog when he realized the dog was hopelessly dying and overwhelmed with pain. Those were such tragic and horrific circumstances and anyone who loves animals, particularly horses and dogs, cannot escape being touched by those scenes for life.
WAR HORSE reflects the same courage by both horse and man. Michael Morpurgo writes childrens' books and though WH is an easy read all the chapters are gripping.
General Patton, who started in the horse calvary rescued everything he could, including the Spanish Riding school mares, and if memory serves Arabians and TB's. Sorting them all out later must have been fun.
I recall the movie that Kari mentioned. When General Patton was stationed at the Pentagon as a Colonel, he and retired General Billy Mitchell (Army Air Corps) were both MFH in Northern VA. Both wore top hats with their "pinks" rather than the traditional hunt cap. As you would suspect, both were quite dapper and excellent riders. There is a great book (no longer in print) I believe titled HUNT COUNTRY USA, that has a number of pictures of both Patton and Mithcell at northern VA hunts.
I just finished reading WAR HORSE by Michael Morpurgo. I highly recommend it. It is a an extremely honest, yet positive read. It is a beautifully written story and at a few points, this old Marine was brought to tears. I was able to relate to this story as our platoon in Vietnam on a number of occasions patrolled and operated with what are now referred to as "war dogs." Two of those dogs were killed, one being dispatched by its own handler after being mortally wounded by a boobytrapped grenade. To this day, I recall the frantic efforts of their handlers to save them and in particular the courage of the young Marine (also wounded by the greande) who had to dispatch his own dog when he realized the dog was hopelessly dying and overwhelmed with pain. Those were such tragic and horrific circumstances and anyone who loves animals, particularly horses and dogs, cannot escape being touched by those scenes for life.
WAR HORSE reflects the same courage by both horse and man. Michael Morpurgo writes childrens' books and though WH is an easy read all the chapters are gripping.
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Shammy Davis
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There was a previous thread on this, but I thought it might be interesting in context with the new movie.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIo3ZfA9da0
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIo3ZfA9da0
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Tappiano wrote:Was it the Lippizaner's that were saved from being wiped out in WWII by being snuck out of Austria? I can't remember what the breed was but there were not that many of them left and it's taken a long time to get the population to a good number again.
The guy that Robert Taylor portrayed in the movie, Alois Podhajsky, remained the chief of the Spanish Riding School in Vienna for very many years after the war.
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It was better than I expected. Nowhere near as good as the play but so different it wasn't really a comparison anyway. My main giggles were him being born without the benefit of an umbilical cord and being out with his dam as a two year old. Like all horse movies, there was way too much "noise" whinnys and such but I tune those out. Oh and somehow he becomes gaited towards the end of the movie! Enjoy!