Word: appaloosa
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...regained feeling, reached up to touch a nose that had been smashed against his cheekbone. Memory flashed: the carnage that had stared back at him from the mirror the night before, the purple polka-dot bruises that dappled his face and shoulders and back. Like the flanks of an Appaloosa horse, he thought to himself; then, because he had lost his gallop and barbed wire fenced-in his prairie, he thought again--a spotted fawn, tucktail and fear-frozen at the sound of a pine cone dropping. Except it was more like a pine tree that had fallen...
...feeling, reached up to touch a nose that had been smashed against his cheek-bone. Memory flashed: the carnage that had stared back at him from the mirror the night before, the purple polka-dot bruises that dappled his face and shoulders and back. Like the flanks of an Appaloosa horse, he thought to himself; then, because he had lost his gallop and barbed wire fenced-in his prairie, he thought again--a spotted fawn, tucktail and fear-frozen at the sound of a pine cone dropping. Except it was more like a pine tree that had fallen...
Born. To Secretariat, horse racing's 1973 Triple Crown winner, whose potential as a superstud was sold to a syndicate for more than $6 million, and Leola, a 13-year-old Appaloosa mare: a male red chestnut colt, the stallion's first offspring; on a farm near Winona, Minn...
...movies he did make were sometimes indifferent (A Countess from Hong Kong, Morituri) and sometimes disastrous (Appaloosa, Bedtime Story). More and more, people began believing the stories that had long circulated of his behavior on the set: that he was a moody, intractable mumbler, a troublemaker whose whims sent budgets and blood pressures skyrocketing, a brilliant burden who dragged everything down with his sagging box office appeal. In fact, there was more and more truth to the stories. In 1962 Mutiny on the Bounty almost literally lived up to its title when Brando worked against the grain of the production...
...that, the viewer who can wade through an implausible situation, a clutch of cardboard dropouts and painful patches of dialogue will discover a film that is curiously sensitive and affecting. Screenwriter James Bridges (The Appaloosa, The Forbin Project) makes his debut here as a director; his sympathetic approach to the principal characters and an admirable sense of directorial pace eventually overcome his stereotypes and his tin ear for conversation. Even so, Bridges could not remotely have succeeded without engaging performances from Miss Hershey (the willful teen queen from Last Summer) and Sam Groom and Collin Wilcox-Horne...