Black Gold (1947)
A kind-hearted Native American adopts a homeless, orphaned Chinese boy who has only a horse to his name. This touching melodrama chronicles the years they spend together. The boy's new parents mate his horse with their mare and the resulting filly proves to be fast. They nearly lose the filly, but manage to get her out of the clutches of a dishonest horse manager. They then breed her. On the day she foals, they find oil upon the land and they name the colt "Black Gold." Together father and adopted son raise the horse with the hope of entering it in the Kentucky Derby. Unfortunately, by this time, the father is an old man and just before he dies, he makes the boy promise to run the horse in the Big Race. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi
- Starring:
- Anthony Quinn, Katherine de Mille, (more)
- Director(s):
- Phil Karlson
Synopsis of Black Gold
A kind-hearted Native American adopts a homeless, orphaned Chinese boy who has only a horse to his name. This touching melodrama chronicles the years they spend together. The boy's new parents mate his horse with their mare and the resulting filly proves to be fast. They nearly lose the filly, but manage to get her out of the clutches of a dishonest horse manager. They then breed her. On the day she foals, they find oil upon the land and they name the colt "Black Gold." Together father and adopted son raise the horse with the hope of entering it in the Kentucky Derby. Unfortunately, by this time, the father is an old man and just before he dies, he makes the boy promise to run the horse in the Big Race. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi
Complete Cast of Black Gold
- Anthony Quinn - Charley Eagle
- Elyse Knox - Ruth Frazer
- Moroni Olsen - Dan Toland
- Thurston Hall - Col. Caldwell
- Darryl Hickman - Schoolboy
- Joe Hernandez - Himself
- Jack Norman - Monty
- Katherine de Mille - Sarah Eagle
- Kane Richmond - Stanley Lowell
- Raymond Hatton - Bucky
- Charles Trowbridge - Judge Wilson
- Clem McCarthy - Himself
- Al Bridge - Jonas
- H.T. Tsiang - Davey's Father
- Director(s):
- Phil Karlson
- Writer(s):
- Agnes Christine Johnston, Caryl Coleman
- Producer(s):
- Jeffrey Bernard
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