Rocking Horse Winner

Series: Classics Dark and Dangerous (Spanish Series

Duration: 30

Genre: Educational

Year Published: 1977

Creator: Learning Corporation of America

Format: 16mm

Sound: sound

Copyright: Registered 11Jan77 · LP47209 (Jan-Jun 1977) Copyright holder: Highgate Associates, Ltd

Description: Presents an adaptation of the novel THE ROCKING-HORSE WINNER by D H Lawrence, about a young, sensitive English boy whose rocking horse empowers him to predict winning racehorses at the eventual cost of his life., This adaptation of D. H. Lawrence's much praised story of the uncanny retains the tale's atmosphere of mounting excitement and inescapable fatalism. "There must be more money..." This is what the horse whispers to Paul, a sensitive child anxiously aware of the tension between his parents. Secretly he begins a frenzied series of excursions on the rocking horse in his room, and the outcome is his ability to predict racehorse winners. He shares this knowledge with his uncle, who agrees to have Paul's mother receive a large share of the winnings anonymously. When Paul becomes very ill, and dies, his mother learns of her child's desperate attempts to find the way to be lucky.

Complete Record: Presents an adaptation of the novel THE ROCKING-HORSE WINNER by D H Lawrence, about a young, sensitive English boy whose rocking horse empowers him to predict winning racehorses at the eventual cost of his life., This adaptation of D. H. Lawrence's much praised story of the uncanny retains the tale's atmosphere of mounting excitement and inescapable fatalism. "There must be more money..." This is what the horse whispers to Paul, a sensitive child anxiously aware of the tension between his parents. Secretly he begins a frenzied series of excursions on the rocking horse in his room, and the outcome is his ability to predict racehorse winners. He shares this knowledge with his uncle, who agrees to have Paul's mother receive a large share of the winnings anonymously. When Paul becomes very ill, and dies, his mother learns of her child's desperate attempts to find the way to be lucky.NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.