Fighting Stallion (1949)

★★★★★ · My Favorite · VintageNewscast.com · 2016-08-31

This is my favorite PD movie. While I agree with a user saying "there was no action," I don't think the movie was meant to be an action movie. You can tell it's not. However, the scene with the fighting horses was pretty realistic! I was actually scared the horses was going to hurt themselves. Maybe they were clips from an actual horse fight, I'm guessing.

★★★★ · Horse Whisperer 1949! · Spuzz · 2006-01-26

Rather interesting movie here that combines melodramatic weepie with a western. Bill Edwards stars as a soldier who gets out of the service to become a cowboy, only to learn that he slowly going blind! When he gets to the ranch, he comes across a wild horse that NOONE can break! But of course, he just walks up, and the horse is like putty in his hands. He decides that the horse will be, yes, his seeing eye-horse! Soon, he falls in love with a ex-nurse, who catches on that he¡¯s slowly going blind (she caught him riding his horse with a handkerchief over his eyes!) but he doesn¡¯t want pit…

★★★★ · Light Western Drama · bobsluckycat · 2005-07-22

This little film, released in early 1950, while somewhat off-beat, has a lot going for it, albeit low-key. Prolific director, writer, producer of westerns Robert E. Tansey turned out a neat little story set post WW II in Wyoming. It's a light drama/romance and horse story all rolled into one, and guess what? It works. Bill Edwards is properly stolid. The suporting players all uniformly good. Rocky Cameron (Gene Alsace)stands out among them. Long time character actors Don Harvey and Robert Carson also very good in small early film roles for both. The horse "Starlight" is fine as well. On the…

★★ · Fighting Stallion loses fight · mjp2501 · 2010-08-07

Film was rather boring to me. I don't care for westerns set in the "modern era" of automobiles, and this film in particular did not have much action.