My Friend Flicka (film)

My Friend Flicka
Directed byHarold D. Schuster
Screenplay byLillie Hayward
Francis Edward Faragoh (adaptation)
Based onMy Friend Flicka
1941 novel
by Mary O'Hara
Produced byRalph Dietrich
StarringRoddy McDowall
Preston Foster
Rita Johnson
CinematographyDewey Wrigley
Edited byRobert Fritch
Music byAlfred Newman
Color processTechnicolor
Production
company
Distributed by20th Century-Fox
Release date
  • May 26, 1943 (1943-05-26)
Running time
89 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Box office$1.6 million (US rentals)[1] or $2.4 million[2]

My Friend Flicka is a 1943 American Western film about a young boy, played by Roddy McDowall, who is given a young horse to raise. It is based on Mary O'Hara's popular 1941 children's novel of the same name. Thunderhead, Son of Flicka, released on March 15, 1945, was the sequel to My Friend Flicka.

  1. ^ "Top Grossers of the Season". Variety. January 5, 1944. p. 54.
  2. ^ Aubrey Solomon (1988). Twentieth Century-Fox: A Corporate and Financial History. The Scarecrow Filmmakers Series. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 220. ISBN 0810842440.