International Velvet (film)

Infobox Film
name = International Velvet


caption = The advertising material
director = Bryan Forbes
producer = Bryan Forbes
writer = Bryan Forbes Enid Bagnold (book)
starring = Tatum O'Neal Nanette Newman Anthony Hopkins Christopher Plummer Jeffrey Byron Sarah Bullen Richard Warwick
distributor = Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
runtime = 127 min.
language = English
preceded_by = National Velvet
followed_by =
imdb_id = 0077743

"International Velvet" is a 1978 dramatic film. It was a sequel to the 1944 classic, "National Velvet".

Plot

"International Velvet" is the story of an American girl, Sarah Brown, who is orphaned when her parents are killed in a car crash. She is sent to England to live with her aunt, Velvet Brown. When Velvet was a similar age to Sarah, she entered the legendary Grand National horse race and won, however was instantly disqualified as she was too young and women were not allowed to ride in the race. The horse Velvet rode on that occasion was known as The Pie. The horse was retired to a stud, and after much deliberation, Sarah and aunt Velvet buy the last offspring of The Pie and Sarah aptly names him "Arizona Pie" (combining the name of the stallion and the state in America where Sarah lived). Sarah lives up to her dream and enters the Olympic Three Day Event helping Great Britain win the team competition. She falls in love with an American competitor, and moves back to America with him. At the conclusion of the film, she sends her aunt Velvet her Olympic medal, saying here was a prize Velvet could keep.

Locations

* [http://www.flete.co.uk/ Flete Estate] , Mothecombe, Devon.