Word: sorrell
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When milkwagon drivers refused to cross their fellow workers' picket line at a Detroit dairy, one sorrel horse grew tired of waiting and set off alone...
...film as wholesome as graham crackers. It is mainly 89 minutes of handsome Technicolor shots of Utah landscape animated with horses. Both scenery and animals are so lustrous that they overshadow the picture's slight, demi-idyllic story about Schoolboy Ken McLaughlin (Roddy Mc-Dowall) and his nervous sorrel filly, Flicka. Young Ken trains the horse, nurses and loves her. He learns through these tasks and emotions much about the equipment he will need in adult life...
...Sorrel Top. She is first seen in a Virginia mansion surrounded by pretty sisters and priceless antiques. The War between the States has just ended. A Yankee brute assaults America's sister, Palestine. America is forced to kill him with a two-foot corn knife. America flees other lady-chasing Yankees along a row of fruit trees. Later she flees lady-killing Fant Annable down a row of tobacco plants. Still later (because of the murdered rapist and to be near Fant) she flees to relatives in Mason County...
Fant calls her "sorrel top" but tells her frankly that he is "not the marrying kind." Nevertheless, when she wins a horse race for him, he can't resist. In mid-honeymoon in New Orleans, America learns the truth about him: Fant is a gambler and a dastard. For a while she supports him by selling off her trousseau to pleasure women (Fant is fit to die laughing). But Fant kills a fellow gambler, then dives off a sternwheeler. America returns to a Kentucky tobacco farm, gets to work supporting herself, surrounded by some of the richest Scottish, Irish...
...Washington loves a fight more than the Federal Communications Commission's sorrel-topped, razor-tongued chairman, James Lawrence Fly. This week, having easily won Senate confirmation of his reappointment to FCC, Chairman Fly could look forward happily to another seven years of hard work and hard fights...