

The Rocking Horse Winner
Exciting As Your Wildest Dreams!
A strange and tragic tale of a young boy who is able to predict race winners at the horse track by riding his own rocking horse to aid his parents out of their endless round of debts.
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- Language
- English
- gambling
- horse race
- greed
- horse
- trance
- bankruptcy
- luck
- uncle nephew relationship
- rocking horse
- mother son relationship
- greedy wife
- secret
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United StatesUS
- TheatricalNR8 Jun 1950
United KingdomGB
- Theatrical(Rated A)30 Nov 1949
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The Rocking Horse Winner was released on 30 November 1949.
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2- J9/10
John Chard
11/14/2013
You have a runaway talent for spending money and that's all. The Rocking Horse Winner is directed by Anthony Pelissier, who also adapts the screenplay from the D. H. Lawrence short story of the same name. It stars Valerie Hobson, John Howard Davies, Ronald Squire, John Mills, Hugh Sinclair and Susan Richards. Music is by William Alwyn and cinematography by Desmond Dickinson. Dreadful, Evil Money. There's …
- C7/10
CinemaSerf
2/18/2024
Fresh from his success in David Lean's "Oliver Twist", John Howard Davies skilfully takes on a rather different role in this engaging dark fantasy. He ("Paul") lives with his wastrel parents and debt is never far away. She, (Valerie Hobson), is a compulsive shopper and he (Hugh Sinclair) a compulsive gambler - neither are very good at their chosen profession! Luckily, it's usually kind uncle "Oscar" (Ronald Squire) w…
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