![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It is fun but at the same time, it does lose a lot of its pace in the second half, it’s the time to really ramp up the excitement and raise your hopes, and instead it moves fairly slowly and feels anticlimactic. It also taps directly into the underdog vein, giving itself such low odds of working out and throwing in plenty of coincidental and over the top moments along the way. It has that typical embellished chaos with a great group of key characters and a strong community feel. It’s just not a tone that you can pull off today but in 1951 it works perfectly, creating the slightly unbelievable but lovably entertaining The Galloping Major. Modern film can undoubtedly achieve a lot of things that classic film couldn’t but they’ll never be able to make a silly, adventurous comedy like the classics could. Matthews, Rene Ray, Hugh Griffith, Joyce Grenfell, Charles Victor and Sydney Tafler. ![]() Starring: Basil Radford, Jimmy Hanley, Janette Scott, A.E. The horse is useless on the flat, so they decide to enter him as a jumper. Written and directed by Henry Cornelius, co-written by Monja Danischewsky, a syndicate is set up by a horse lover to buy a particular racehorse, but they accidentally buy the wrong horse. ![]()
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