Phar Lap
Year: | 1983 |
Studio: | 20th Century Fox |
Director: | Simon Wincer |
Writer: | David Williamson |
Cast: | Tom Burlinson, Robert Grubb |
To paraphrase the plastic placard over a thousand workplaces, you don't have to like horses to see the movie, but it helps. If you don't know the story, Phar Lap was the racing name for a horse that captured the public imagination in the prewar years by winning everything he ran in, regardless of how much weight they put on him for a handicap.
The movie is old and fuzzy now, and is probably the best example of the admittedly small uplifting Australian champion pre-war racehorse genre.