Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #8128 in VHS
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Formats: Color, NTSC
• Original language: English

Customer Reviews

Life Changing
This movie shaped the lives of many girls of my generation (way old). As Ofoeti mentions in the review below, we ate and drank this movie. However, we had to keep reading the little paperback book, as there were no VHS machines yet. The little book came from a kids newspaper we used to get in school, I almost remember the name of that newspaper (Weekly Reader?). I was sorry to read in Mike's review that Annette did not enjoy the making of this movie, but I do know that she loves horses. Wasn't her husband first her horse wrangler? It is time to rerelease this on DVD. I wonder if it is Annette or Disney who is holding up the release of this movie, but if they don't release it soon, those of us who love it will be dead.
I was lucky enough to find a camp much like the movie in CA. I went to Cal Poly SLO and studied horses. I have bred horses ever since. Movies change lives.
Best, Virginia

A treat for the horse-crazy nostalgic!
When I was a girl (lo these many, many years ago)this was my favorite movie in all the world. My friends and I played "Horsemasters" endlessly (which was kind of pathetic, as we were just little middle-class suburban kids who had no access to horses) -- taking the movie plot and expanding on it as far as our imaginations would go. Revisiting this film was such fun! The acting was fine, and the riding scenes are still exciting to see. OK, it'll never rank up there with the Disney classics -- but it's actually more genuine than a lot of later-day Disney fare. I'm glad "The Horsemasters" is still around and hope it finds an audience.

Underrated Disney Horse Fare
A group of riding students (Tommy Kirk and Annette Funicello among them) must contend with unruly horses and a taciturn instructor (Donald Pleasance), all while trying to master the finer points of jumping, dressage, and sportsmanship. Not a great movie, but doesn't deserve to be forgotten. Based on a novel by Don Stanford.

Staci Layne Wilson