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National Velvet Reviews
A heart-warming human interest drama, superbly produces in Technicolor... the sort of picture that will appeal to all types of audiences.
Every sequence in the picture will be loved by all observers who are not at loggerheads with mankind.
If it preaches any lesson in rectitude and the comfort and dignity of character, it does so with friendly warmth and agreeable humor in terms of delightful diversion. All ages of both genders will find it pulsating with palatable pastiming.
The plot of the film is strong, but it's the ordinary every day living touches that enrich it... the warm relationships between members of the family... the light comedy touches and deeper emotional moments.
It leaps to thrilling action with the race itself, the most pictorially colorful, heart-stoppingly exciting event of the sort ever staged for the motion picture cameras.
The picture is a delightful adaptation in Technicolor of Enid Bagnold's novel.
It is a perfect, a glorious holiday attraction.
It makes a most exciting and engaging film, and the basic improbability is no bar to the enjoyment of the story.
There's a heartwarming quality about most of the characterizations, the action is valid, and the humor arising from family relationships is always sound.
The story is one of faith. That means for everyone. It's sort of a fairy tale about a horse, about two children who had faith in the ability of that horse to run with the best of them. And win.
A cinematic treat with its heart-warming story, its breathtaking presentation of the Grand National Sweepstakes, and its pictorial gorgeousness of land and sea, in soft technicolor tones that captivate the eye.
While the movie is long, it's extremely pleasant, with some very funny touches of family humor -- ant it's a very safe bet to proclaim National Velvet a winnah!
National Velvet makes you feel like a better person after you see it because it proves that fairy tales can turn into reality and that the strongest and most powerful force in life is a child's belief and her dreams.
National Velvet is a picture of great tenderness and appeal -- recommended without reserve.
Mr. Clarence Brown has directed it in such a refreshing burst of good will and with such a staunch belief in the faith of adolescents that the strains of the imagination dissolve into nothingness.
The picture is a masterpiece, its beauty enhanced by the Technicolor scenes of the English countryside.
The great moment of National Velvet, to be sure, is that in which Butcher Brown's little daughter, posing as a boy, rides the Pi in the Grand National. A finer, more smashing piece of film-making we never have seen than that in which the race is run.
Except for prettying-up the vollage and the cottage, M.G.M's production is excellent -- and that goes particularly for the countryside exteriors.
There has never been such an elaborate horse race on stage or screen as that presented in this picture. It has expansive setting, long sustained suspense, a multitude of incidents, and the well simulated excitement of the great crowd of onlookers.
The picture is a spectacle of beauty throughout. The acting is delightful to watch and the story, with its very unusual plot, leaves nothing to be desired.