STABLEMATES REVIEWED
“Stablemates” is another bizarre Mickey Rooney film from the 1930s. Rooney plays a kid wanting to save a local horse. Wallace Beery is the drunk vet that gets conned along into helping the kid and the horse dubbed Lady Q. Lady Q and Mickey want to enter the big race, but they need $75. The two pal around for a bit until they stumble onto a farm owned by Margaret Hamilton. The Wicked Witch of the West pays her new farmhands and eventually makes the drunk vet sung for his supper. The duo gets the money they need, but Mickey learns that Tom is a dirty gambling drunk.
Lady Q and Mickey race against a ton of horses including the real Seabiscuit. Mixing live California racetrack footage with staged effects, the final race is thrilling. Still, it ends with a drunk vet who murdered a jockey and horse adopting Mickey. Well, they kinda adopt each other. Then, they kiss. 1938 was a crazy year, people. Seabiscuit would later win the Pimlico after the final opened wide in the Fall of 1938. Anyone younger than 68 forgot it existed until now.
SPECIAL FEATURES
- Nothing
A/V STATS
- 1.78:1 standard definition transfer
- Dolby Digital 5.1