The Best Horses In Screen/TV History

By Michael Musto Fri., Dec. 16 2011 at 8:45 AM

Categories: Film

Steven Spielberg's War Horse (above) is about to trot into theaters, and lordy is that a beautiful creature!

I like the horse, too.

Anyway, here are some of my other favorite equine stars from Hollywood history.

National Velvet, with the beauteous Liz Taylor

Secretariat, with the lovely Diane Lane

Seabiscuit, with spunky Tobey Maguire

The original version with Shirley Temple

My Friend Flicka, with Roddy McDowall, who grew up to be hung like a ... you know

The Red Pony. In dazzling black and white.

Francis the talking mule -- which is related to a horse -- with Donald O'Connor

TV's mouthy Mr. Ed, who never stopped horsin' around

"Hello, horse face!" The Horse Whisperer had ScarJo bonding with some hairy pals.

Buck is this year's Oscar-shortlisted doc about the real-life horse whisperer and his stable of stable dwellers.

But don't anyone mention Equus, if you don't mind.

That overwrought, pretentiously boring movie smells like a stable!

To paraphrase Ruth Roman in the cult classic The Baby, it's just so much horseshit.

Oh, all right, here it is. But get it to the glue factory pronto.

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Melinda9

Sorry! Horses, yay!

Musto

Thank you, Melinda9!!!

CMG

No love for the horse in The Godfather?

Lost Weekend

Correction: The name of the horse in "National Velvet" was "Pie." "Velvet" was Velvet Brown, played by Elizabeth Taylor. Both star and horse were beautiful.

Rolph

He obviously meant National Velvet as a title, not a character. Everyone stop with the drive-by corrections and nyah-nyahs or these threads will stop.

Lost Weekend

I didn't mean any offense; it appeared to me that all the movies mentioned were named after the horse, with the exception being "National Velvet." I just didn't want anyone to be confused. No offense or Internet-pickiness was meant.

Parva

Relax, Rolph. The only power some sad people can get is in putting these anonymous corrections and nyah-nyahs, even when they're wrong.

Musto

I download 12 classic horses and someone says "Where's Phar Lap??" Killing myself.

Melinda9

I didn't say 'Where's Phar Lap?' I said 'Don't forget Phar Lap.' That was a good horse movie, dammit. Race horses usually lead hard lives with sad endings.