Word: stallions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thunderhead, Son of Flicka (20th Century-Fox) is a well-ventilated, prettily colored sequel to My Friend Flicka (TIME, April 26, 1943). Its simple story (Roddy McDowall breaks and trains Thunderhead; Thunderhead runs a race, kills a wild Albino stallion that has been raising hob among the local mares and becomes king of the herd) keeps horses constantly moving in the open air, across grandiose Northwestern landscapes. Horses in motion are always cinegenic, whether or not the motion makes any other sort of sense; and a couple of fights in this picture are dramatic as well as beautiful to watch...
Colonel Elliott Roosevelt, tidying up (by proxy: he is in England) his Dutch Branch ranch near Fort Worth, shipped eight Arabian horses (one stallion, four brood mares, three colts) to his bride in California, Cinemactress Faye Emerson. The shipment went by rail freight...
Testing her over the mile and three-sixteenths run at Pimlico were two he-horses : the stallion Devil Diver, the gelding Megogo. They should have known from past experience that Susie's soft brown eyes belied her power and drive...
...passionate eloquence of St. Augustine (whom Mumford compares to "the wild eye and the snorting nostril of the stallion in heat") "degenerated" through the ages into the logical but lifeless dida tics of Descartes, Spinoza, Locke...
...time in bed, gloomily waiting for the day when the Lewises would throw him out. "It's all dead wood," snapped crazy Grandma, of her household. "Somebody ought to come along with an ax. . . ." But Catherine believed that two living things remained: Aunt Willy's stallion, and a vigorous neighboring farmer named Tom Manigault. Life began again for her when the stallion won first prize at the State Fair, and the farmer became Catherine's lover (they planned to marry after her divorce). Life ended again when the stallion was accidentally electrocuted, when her washed...