In this drama, based on a novel by Mary O'Hara, the relationship between humans and animals is paralleled as they struggle to live and find love on a wild ranch in Wyoming. The human story centers around a rancher's niece who falls in love with a neighboring rancher's son. The equine story follows the romantic exploits of a wild-eyed black mare and a wild white stallion, Thunderhead. One night, the sly stud sneaks upon the other's land and steals the mare. The rancher's boy brings them back. The rival ranchers get involved in a horse race and the niece's uncle wins over the other's pregnant mare. The two youngsters find love and as Thunderhead's baby is foaled, happiness ensues. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
Review by All Movie Guide
All Movie Guide
lost interest.
20 Century Fox's follow-up to the vastly popular
My Friend Flicka (1943) and its sequel, Thunderhead, Son of Flicka (1945), had a change of cast, but basically delivers the same kind of homespun delights that made Mary O'Hara's novels so appealing. Though appealing mostly to children, for the grownups there are delightful performances by that old rascal
Charles Coburn as an alcoholic horse breeder and by
Lloyd Nolan as his upstanding neighbor.
Peggy Cummins, whom Fox had earlier dismissed from the 1947 extravaganza
Forever Amber, does well enough as Coburn's granddaughter, and
Robert Arthur, who replaced
Roddy McDowall, is equally ingenious as her romantic
vis-à-vis. ~ Hans J. Wollstein, All Movie Guide