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Post by merasmag on Dec 5, 2022 2:50:04 GMT -5
okay, about 15 years ago i caught a late night movie about a horse that only won if he drank beer before his race. i didn't catch the name at 3am and have never found it in any of my searches. i thought it had famous people in it but am truly stumped. DOES ANYONE KNOW WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT??? and, here is one that we can easily access- www.imdb.com/title/tt0031225/ |
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Post by spanky on Dec 5, 2022 10:19:48 GMT -5
I recall that movie...maybe a Disney movie?
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Post by merasmag on Dec 5, 2022 21:39:10 GMT -5
i truly doubt it. i could almost swear carole lombard was in it, i came home at 3am and turned on the tube and there it was, and this was before i had prime or anything. it was total late night "junk", but hilarious dam-this isn't it. www.imdb.com/title/tt0014950/?ref_=tt_urv it was definitely a 30s or 40s film |
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Post by cherokeescot on Dec 6, 2022 4:38:34 GMT -5
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Post by merasmag on Dec 7, 2022 4:22:03 GMT -5
well that is not at all the plot i described and i think most people know that movie-this is SO obscure i couldn't find it even with my imdb membership. which is why i asked others who might know more than i do all my searches always end up with toby keith's "beer for my horses" which is not in the same ballpark (but an ok song) |
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Post by cherokeescot on Dec 7, 2022 13:01:46 GMT -5
Are you sure it was just the horse drinking the beer ?
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Post by PonyGirlJCM on Dec 7, 2022 15:15:34 GMT -5
The Rumor Mill
Seabiscuit inspired the kind of rumors that usually develop about Hollywood stars. One inventive scribe wrote that trainer Tom Smith poured two quarts of Golden Rod beer for Seabiscuit to drink before each race. If this brew is denied the stallion, the imaginative writer wrote, the horse “whinnies and stomps to indicate displeasure.” The Chicago Tribune joked in the summer of 1938 that “as a result of his Maryland victory, Seabiscuit will get the Rhett Butler role in Gone with the Wind.”
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Post by merasmag on Dec 8, 2022 1:59:12 GMT -5
Are you sure it was just the horse drinking the beer ? i am QUITE positive it WASN'T. I stumbled in about 3 am and turned on the tv to where it probably already was, abc chicago, and the movie was in the middle. either they cut off the credits or i fell asleep before the end, but i believe it was the former. it was almost 20 years ago so hard to say. that's all i know is it was great and hilarious and i have NEVER been able to locate it or find anyone who knows it |
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Post by merasmag on Dec 8, 2022 2:00:33 GMT -5
maybe shirley temple was in it? whenever i think about it it drives me nuts
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Post by PonyGirlJCM on Dec 8, 2022 4:29:10 GMT -5
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Post by merasmag on Dec 8, 2022 16:24:35 GMT -5
no...not that-i wasn't drunk enough to not know the name seabiscuit. there were mobsters and payoffs and it was a comedy! and the whole plot revolved around the fact the horse couldn't win without beer! like switching out water for beer etc.
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Post by PonyGirlJCM on Dec 8, 2022 17:51:37 GMT -5
no...not that-i wasn't drunk enough to not know the name seabiscuit. there were mobsters and payoffs and it was a comedy! and the whole plot revolved around the fact the horse couldn't win without beer! like switching out water for beer etc. The movie I posted had Shirley Temple in it….. 1949….. Guess it is still a mystery if that wasn’t it…. |
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Post by merasmag on Dec 8, 2022 18:20:53 GMT -5
it could have even been from the late 20s, it was stupid enough. i just seem to remember some famous woman was in it. or maybe it was a man? (jimmy durante lol?)
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Post by 1hooper on Dec 8, 2022 19:09:55 GMT -5
Has to be this. Betty Grable www.imdb.com/title/tt0031214/The taxi drivers of the Colonel Cab Company are tired of losing money at the racetrack. When Ramsey Firpo sees the winnings taken home by one of the horse owners, he convinces the other drivers to chip in some money to buy a horse of their own. Firpo taps fellow driver Ernest Ambrose, his sister Ina's goofy boyfriend, to go to Kentucky to buy the horse and, based on Ambrose's success with pigeons, to become the horse's trainer. Despite Ina's warnings to stay away from horse racing, Ambrose goes to Kentucky and meets Colonel March (a con man) and Patsy (his accomplice, posing as his daughter "Gwendolyn"). Colonel March buys Hiccup, a broken-down nag with an alcohol problem, for twenty bucks and makes sure Ambrose pays five hundred dollars for him the next day at the auction. Firpo and the cab drivers are excited to see Hiccup in action (chasing a beer truck down the streets of New York), but Hiccup's performance on the racetrack is disappointing. That is, until Ina overhears Colonel March mention that Hiccup is unbeatable once he's had a few drinks. |
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Post by tc on Dec 8, 2022 19:16:48 GMT -5
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Post by merasmag on Dec 8, 2022 21:04:49 GMT -5
OMG U GUYS THANK YOU! lombard, grable, i was close---one day i will have a zoom watch party for this movie but i'm going to look for it on youtube and amazon prime NOW. so dis dread is dead
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