Do you know this horsey film?

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Ok. I'm looking for this film I saw when I was little and I just can't think what it's called.

I'm not sure if it was a proper film or a telly dramatisation but it was about pit ponies. It was aimed at kids. There was a coloured pony called Flash. I think it was about the children in the film saving the ponies. I remember being very upset because Flash dies in an explosion towards the end.

I'm hoping to find it on amazon because I'm sure my daughter would love it.
 
Don't remember that one ... :confused:

But does anyone remember a kids tv programme called Silas (??) about a young boy and his black horse ?? Badly dubbed ...

DD xx
 
is that the same film where the little pit pony delivers a foal before dying?. remember seeing this film once and have never forgotton that bit :(.
 
That film traumatised me as a child, almost as bad as Lassie, The Three Lives of Thomasina and Greyfriers Bobby. Don't mention ET! *eyes well up* :D
 
sunshine19 said:
That film traumatised me as a child, almost as bad as Lassie, The Three Lives of Thomasina and Greyfriers Bobby. Don't mention ET! *eyes well up* :D
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Watership Down
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Oberon said:
Watership Down
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Lion king... when Simba's dad died in the stampede :(. My daughter was mortified, I kept telling her he would get up in a min (believing myself that a Disney film would not be so brutal!) When I realised he had died I had to leave the room so my daughter wouldn't see me crying lol
 
liveryblues said:
Lion king... when Simba's dad died in the stampede
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We saw that in the cinema just after my little brother's cat had died and we hadn't told him. the very loud conversation between my sister and brother went like so.

4 yo brother: "Why is the big cat sleeping"
6 yo sister: "He's not asleep- he's dead, just like your cat"
4 yo brother: "My cat's not dead- he's at the vets"
Rest of Cinema: "Awwwwww"

I don't think Bury St Edmunds Cinema has ever recovered!

Sorry! I digress: My fave horsey programme= Flambards!
 
Trouble4125 said:
We saw that in the cinema just after my little brother's cat had died and we hadn't told him. the very loud conversation between my sister and brother went like so.

4 yo brother: "Why is the big cat sleeping"
6 yo sister: "He's not asleep- he's dead, just like your cat"
4 yo brother: "My cat's not dead- he's at the vets"
Rest of Cinema: "Awwwwww"

I don't think Bury St Edmunds Cinema has ever recovered!

Sorry! I digress: My fave horsey programme= Flambards!
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I am crying with laughter now
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tinap555 said:
Is it The littlest horse thieves? Just googled it & it came up on amazon xx
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Yep. That's the one. I just googled that and found out it was also called Escape From The Dark and The Pit Ponies. I think I knew it as Escape From The Dark.

Anyway, the only copy I can find is £67.50 on Amazon :eek: so I don't think I'll be getting it. :(


Watership Down. I hated that film when I was little. I think I was around 20 when I finally saw the whole thing!!
 
Vaguely remember Pit pony film but have no recollection of what it is called.

A great horsey film is 'Into the West' 2 irish boys and a grey horse...even my OH watched it after his parents found it on DVD for me (i'm 31!!) - love it! Watched it a few months back at a BE event whilst staying overnight in the lorry...prayed that no other riders would come and knock on the door of the lorry to see me and my terrier snuggled up in the luton watching a childs film!
 
Does anyone remember the scene where the pony gets sucked into the Swamps of Sadness in The Never-Ending Story? My daughter was three, she howled so pitiously at this scene I wondered if I'd traumatised her forever by allowing her to watch it*.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y688upqmRXo

"You have to care... for me... you're my friend.... I love you.... ARTEX..!"



*My daughter says, "Yeah, about that Mum... you had" :(
 
liveryblues said:
Lion king... when Simba's dad died in the stampede :(. My daughter was mortified, I kept telling her he would get up in a min (believing myself that a Disney film would not be so brutal!) When I realised he had died I had to leave the room so my daughter wouldn't see me crying lol
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How could you believe that???? Disney have form! Haven't you seen Bambi, or Dumbo?????

My poor mum is still traumatised about bambi, she was taken to see it when she was a child by her then teenaged brothers who moved seats because they were embarrassed by her crying so much.

Personally animals are the only things in films and books that make me cry, I'm reading Black Diamonds at the moment and was trying so hard not to cry about the pit ponies because I was reading at work on my lunch break.
 
Funnily enough we were just talking about Into the West yesterday....must dig it out again, fantastic story and lovely horses (I think there were at least 3 different greys all trying to be the same horse....!)
 
I remember back in the 70s watching a film which featured a Welsh pony called Taff who was owned by a poor boy, was perhaps then sold /otherwise to a rich boy without the poor boy's knowledge or permission. At one stage they had the pony in the middle of a field with a boy at either end calling to him and the one he went to got to keep him, but I cant remember the name of the film or how it ended, think probably the pony went to the poor boy
 
FionaM12 said:
Does anyone remember the scene where the pony gets sucked into the Swamps of Sadness in The Never-Ending Story? My daughter was three, she howled so pitiously at this scene I wondered if I'd traumatised her forever by allowing her to watch it*.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y688upqmRXo

"You have to care... for me... you're my friend.... I love you.... ARTEX..!"



*My daughter says, "Yeah, about that Mum... you had" :(
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i love that film but hate that bit!! and he's like no don't feel sad! come on artex! ahh i'm getting misty :(

but he gets him back at the end :D
 
Oberon said:
Watership Down
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I went to see Watership Down when it first came out in the cinema with my M&D when I was 8yo. I broke my heart at it, sobbing. It took me another 22 years to pluck up the courage to watch it again! Even hearing 'Bright eyes' can set me off! :o

I still can't bring myself to watch E.T again, lol! :D
 
sunshine19 said:
Even hearing 'Bright eyes' can set me off! :o
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Same here! And the theme tune to the littlest hobo brings back tears and a mini anxiety attack! And as for the never ending story - who on earth thought that was suitable for a small child I don't know..... I can't bear to watch any of them even now!! lol

I loved flambards and the black beauty series and national velvet, Ooo and international velvet too!
 
scrunchie said:
Ok. I'm looking for this film I saw when I was little and I just can't think what it's called.

I'm not sure if it was a proper film or a telly dramatisation but it was about pit ponies. It was aimed at kids. There was a coloured pony called Flash. I think it was about the children in the film saving the ponies. I remember being very upset because Flash dies in an explosion towards the end.

I'm hoping to find it on amazon because I'm sure my daughter would love it.
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Escape from the Dark.

It is the true test of humanity, if you can watch the end of that movie and not cry you are destined to be a mass murderer.

The classic line 'But where's Flash' used to send us all into floods of tears
 
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skint1 said:
I remember back in the 70s watching a film which featured a Welsh pony called Taff who was owned by a poor boy, was perhaps then sold /otherwise to a rich boy without the poor boy's knowledge or permission. At one stage they had the pony in the middle of a field with a boy at either end calling to him and the one he went to got to keep him, but I cant remember the name of the film or how it ended, think probably the pony went to the poor boy
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I had the book, and the pony belonged to the poor boy and escaped and it ended up with the crippled rich boy, it became his legs. Anyway the sneaky lawyer got the poor boy to feed it every day so that when it came to the contest the pony ran over to the poor one. But I think they sort of shared him after as the rich one loved him too.
 
dieseldog said:
I had the book, and the pony belonged to the poor boy and escaped and it ended up with the crippled rich boy, it became his legs. Anyway the sneaky lawyer got the poor boy to feed it every day so that when it came to the contest the pony ran over to the poor one. But I think they sort of shared him after as the rich one loved him too.
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Never could remember the name of the book/film, but the pony belonged to some people I worked for in real life. He was called Romeo and was a right little prima donna :D
 
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