Mighty Joe Young (1949), Molly and Me (1945), The Outlaw Stallion (1954), My Pal Trigger (1946), The Galloping Major (1951), Savage Sam (1963), Green Grass of Wyoming (1948), The Littlest Outlaw (1955) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Animal Star movies.
Storyline: In Africa, the girl Jill Young trades a baby gorilla with two natives and raises the animal. Twelve years later, the talkative and persuasive promoter Max O'Hara organizes a safari to Africa with the Oklahoma cowboy Gregg to bring attractions to his new night-club in Hollywood. They capture several lions and out of blue, they see a huge gorilla nearby their camping and they try to capture the animal. However, the teenager Jill Young stops the men that intended to kill her gorilla. Max seduces Jill with a fancy life in Hollywood and she signs a contract with him where the gorilla Joseph "Joe" Young would be the lead attraction. Soon she realizes that her dream is a nightmare to Joe and she asks Max to return to Africa. However he persuades her to stay a little longer in the show business. But when three alcoholic costumers give booze to Joe, the gorilla destroys the spot and is sentenced by the justice to be sacrificed. Will Jill, Gregg and Max succeed in saving Joe?—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Plot Keywords: adventure, fantasy, action, drama, family, monster, classic ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Molly, an actress desperate for work, decides to get it by "playing the part" of an experienced housekeeper. It turns out that the butler at her new household is doing the same thing. Their employer, Mr. Graham, is a retired politician who, divorced from his wife and estranged from his son, lives alone with a staff of servants. Graham's life needs shaking up and, with her enthusiasm and acting talent, Molly is just the one to help him do it when the opportunity arises.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: comedy, family, drama, classic, black and white, american film, 1940s ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Hagan is rustling horses lead by a white stallion from a Government restricted area. Young Danny Saunders captures the horse who then kills Hagen's mare. Hagen needs the white stallion and when Danny is hurt during the beaking of the horse, his mother gives the horse to Hagan. Upset, Danny runs away to be with the horse. His mother chases after him and they are both made prisoners when they see Hagan's rustling operation.—Maurice VanAuken <mvanauken@a1access.net>
Plot Keywords: western, horse, revenge, gunfight, adventure, american west, justice ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Gabby refuses to breed his horse the Golden Sovereign with Roy's. When the Sovereign and Roy's horse escape, Skoville shoots the Sovereign by mistake but Roy is blamed and jailed. A year later Roy returns with Trigger, the son of the Sovereign. When Skoville slips and reveals he was present when the horse was shot, Roy sees a chance to clear his name.—Maurice VanAuken <mvanauken@a1access.net>
Plot Keywords: western, horse, musical, black and white, 1940s, classic film, loyalty ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A syndicate is set up by a horse lover to buy a particular racehorse, but they accidentally buy the wrong horse. The horse is useless on the flat, so they decide to enter him as a jumper.
Plot Keywords: comedy, sports, horse racing, british film, black and white, 1950s, inspirational ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Travis, Arliss, and Lisbeth are captured by Apaches while Old Yeller's son, Sam, tracks their trail.
Plot Keywords: western, adventure, family, disney, sequel, texas, kidnapping ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: "Thunderhead," a roving, big white stallion, causes problems for the Wyoming ranchers when he leads their blue-blooded racing mares off to join his wild horse herd in the mountains. Escaping gunfire, he runs off one night with a young rancher;s mare, a possible winner of the Governor's Stake trotting race. The mare is recaptured and entered in the race against the horse owned by the father of the young rancher's sweetheart, and this puts a damper on their romance.—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
Plot Keywords: romance, family, western, drama, equestrian, rural life, american ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Little Pablito is the 10-year-old son of a cruel horse trainer who's responsible for training a Mexican general's horse to jump for the grand race. The trainer's methods cause the horse to become afraid of jumping and the general orders the animal's death. Pablito runs away with the horse, becoming a fugitive. He travels throughout Mexico encountering several fugitives and a priest who tries to help.—Scott Lane <rslane@ix.netcom.com>
Plot Keywords: adventure, family, drama, children's film, horse, mexico, friendship ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Light-hearted, old-style romance about a farm-hand who arranges to buy a pair of mules from his employer. No one is able to handle the mules and he must train them. Adding to his dilemma, he pursues his boss's daughter who gets her kicks out of keeping him guessing about her true feelings. Of course, at the end he tames both the mules and the girl.—Kieran Lee <kjl@kjl.st-andrews.ac.uk>
Plot Keywords: comedy, family, rural life, 1940s, light comedy, family entertainment, inspirational ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: When a native village is apparently terrorized by a lion, the local sergeant enlists the help of a veterinarian working at a nearby animal study center. It is soon discovered that the lion has a unique problem, it has double vision due to the fact that it is cross eyed and therefore cannot hunt. The lion is taken back to the study center and is soon adopted by the vet's daughter. Meanwhile, a dangerous criminal is planning to capture young gorillas and sell them on the black market.—Kevin Steinhauer <K.Steinhauer@BoM.GOV.AU>
Plot Keywords: adventure, family, comedy, animals, africa, wildlife, lion ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A determined prospector, Jonathan Harvey (Paul Kelly) finds gold after years of searching. When he returns to town to tell his partner, Jonathan finds that his friend has died, leaving his son, Tommy (Gary Gray), on his own. While Jonathan's loyal collie, Lassie, stays with the boy, he goes to find help to assist him with his lucrative discovery. However, the new recruit (Bruce Cowling) proves to be a shady character, and before long the ruthless schemer has incurred the wrath of Lassie.
Plot Keywords: western, adventure, drama, dog, gold rush, outlaw, loyalty ...
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