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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0089218456090
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC
Label: Alpha Video
Manufacturer: Alpha Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Alpha Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: November 23, 2004
Running Time: 94 minutes
Sales Rank: 57189
Studio: Alpha Video
Theatrical Release Date: 1949
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - A Path Filled With Uneven Patches
By keeping in mind the type of "biographies" with sporting themes that Hollywood would generate in this era, the syrup that covers the real story is an enjoyable dessert.
Based on the iconic natural pacer from the early years of the century, Dan Patch, the script makes sure that a good story does not get in the way of the facts. A consultant to the movie was Merton E. Harrison, who was the 1912 "ghost writer" of the Autobiography of Dan Patch, which was the first-person (Standardbred) ... Read More
Rating: - "Slopping hogs & pitching manure is more your style..."
This 1949 movie is based on the true story of the legendary race horse Dan Patch, who in eleven years of racing remained undefeated. "Great Dan Patch" is certainly no masterpiece, but it's nevertheless an enjoyable movie with a great cast. Arthur Hunnicutt, whom you'll recognize from "The Red Badge of Courage", adds a lot here in a suporting role. Chemist David Palmer (Dennis O'Keefe) has just married a snobby socialite, Ruth Treadwell (Ruth Warrick), and is also the owner of race horses. When he purchases ... Read More
Rating:  - Getting sentimental in my young old age
This may not be a great movie, and it may not be played by great actors, but it's an affecting bit of work and I sat there through every second of it in thoroughly sappy enjoyment. I love feel good stories. I love watching a man or a woman or a horse doing something so well we're all bigger just have to seen it. Dan Patch is not a forgotten "sulkie horse" - he was and is the greatest pacer who ever set hoof on a track. Like Man 'O War, when Dan Patch entered a race, the rest of the field scratched. Before ... Read More
Rating: - Right up there with National Velvet
Even though this movie is about a now rather unknown sulkie horse, with "movie stars" only slightly better known, it ranks up there with "National Velvet" as one of the soppiest horse stories to make the big screen. PS Mary didn't write this one, Steve did.
Rating: - Great horse, pretty good movie
Great Dan Patch, The (1949, true story and drama)
Loosely based on the life of Dan Patch, a trotting horse so fast that towards the end of his career all the competition he had were the speed records he himself set - in 11 years of racing, he was undefeated. Family drama and romance takes center stage in this film, but there are some good action scenes on the track.
Staci Layne Wilson
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