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Watching The Black Stallion is like spending two hours with a stack of National Geographies. Director Carroll Ballard's adaptation of Walter Farley's boy-and-horse novel consists of one stunning view after another: coral seas, scarlet sunsets, moonlit landscapes, stormy skies. Almost every shot is suitable for framing, and Ballard prefers it that way. Whenever actors step into the frame, the director dismisses them quickly; he seems to feel that characters are intruders who come around only to mess up his pretty pictures...
...Kerslake, as he is called-when treating of the lower classes, the English seldom assign first names-is sent to Portugal to investigate Sarah Branton, who is most definitely U. Sarah has spent eight years in a nunnery and has been saved from a suicidal drowning attempt by Richard Farley, a charming drifter of the sort that only the shires and Kenya can produce...
Kerslake, posing as a family solicitor, has a triple assignment: informing Sarah of her post-convent financial affairs, reporting on her current affaire with Farley and tracking down, on the privy instruction of the sinister Lord Bellmaster, any records that might be damaging to his ambitious lordship (he expects to be named Ambassador to Washington...
Kerslake does not find the evidence. But Farley stumbles on a diary: Lord Belly, it turns out, is Sarah's true father. Having impregnated the wanton Lady Jean, milord bribed an impecunious army officer to marry the gal. Lady Jean's memoir also records in damning detail Bellmaster's murders of two accomplices. Intelligence, fearful of security leakage, gives Kerslake a license to kill...
CRIMSON SPLASHES: Princeton coach Bill Farley received an offer from his alma mater, the University of Michigan, to take over the head coaching duties there next year. He said yesterday he will "probably take it," but will visit Ann Arbor next week to "get the offer in writing...