The Rocking Horse Winner (1949 film)

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The Rocking Horse Winner (1949 film) is a British drama adapted from D.H. Lawrence’s short story about a boy whose uncanny luck at picking racehorse winners is driven by his desperate desire to satisfy his mother’s insatiable need for money.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf British film
drama film
film
adaptationOf The Rocking-Horse Winner (short story)
authorOfSourceWork D. H. Lawrence
basedOn The Rocking-Horse Winner
short story
blackAndWhite true
castMember Arthur Hambling
Charles Goldner
Cyril Smith
Hugh Sinclair
John Howard Davies
John Mills
Ronald Squire
Susan Beaumont
Valerie Hobson
Walter Fitzgerald
cinematographyBy Desmond Dickinson
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
director Anthony Pelissier
distributor Eagle-Lion Films
General Film Distributors
editedBy Helga Cranston
format theatrical film
genre drama
fantasy
language English
leadActor John Howard Davies
mainCharacter Paul
musicBy Benjamin Frankel
narrativeFocus a boy’s obsessive drive to win money for his mother through betting on horse races
plotSummary A young boy discovers he can predict racehorse winners while riding his rocking horse and uses this ability to win money for his financially troubled mother.
portrays gambling
parent-child relationships
social class in Britain
producer John Mills
productionCompany Two Cities Films
releaseDateUK 1949-06-16
releaseYear 1949
runtimeMinutes 95
screenwriter Anthony Pelissier
setting England
sourceWorkPublicationYear 1926
theme family relationships
greed
materialism
psychological tension

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The Rocking-Horse Winner adaptedAs The Rocking Horse Winner (1949 film)