The Black Stallion

Director Carroll Ballard’s opening, dialogue free, evoking the initial premise of the novel by Walter Farley, introducing star Kelly Reno as young American Alec, and Cass-Olé, the Texas-bred Arabian trained for the film by Glen, J.R. and Corky Randall, in The Black Stallion, 1979.

Most of director Carroll Ballard's frantic shipwreck scene, Alec (Kelly Reno) awakened, father (Hoyt Axton) attempting rescue, crazy Arab guy (Doghmi Larbi) interfering and horse (Cass-Ole) escaping, in The Black Stallion, 1979.

A boy and a horse forge a close friendship after being shipwrecked together in Africa in The Black Stallion (1979), directed by Carroll Ballard and produced by Fred Roos and Tom Sternberg.

Shipwrecked Alec (Kelly Reno) making friends with the horse (Cass-Ole), cinematographer Caleb Deschanel on location in Sardinia, in The Black Stallion, 1979, directed by Carroll Ballard.

Nearly 30 minutes since the last spoken line, Alec (Kelly Reno) is surprised when fishermen appear at the Mediterranean island where he and the stallion he now calls “Black” have been stranded for weeks, in director Carroll Ballard’s The Black Stallion, 1979.