International Velvet (film)

International Velvet
File:International Velvet Film.jpg The advertising material
Directed by	Bryan Forbes
Written by	Bryan Forbes Enid Bagnold (book)
Produced by	Bryan Forbes
Starring	Tatum O'Neal Nanette Newman Anthony Hopkins Christopher Plummer Jeffrey Byron Sarah Bullen Richard Warwick
Distributed by	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Running time	127 min.
Language	English

For the 1998 album by Welsh band Catatonia, see International Velvet.

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

Plot introduction

Template:Spoiler International Velvet is the touching story of a 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 as Sarah, she entered the Grand National and won, however getting disqualified as she was too young and a woman. The horse Velvet rode on that occasion was called The Pie. The horse was retired to a stud, and after much deliberation, Sarah and Velvet buy the last offspring of The Pie and aptly named it Arizona Pie, combining the name of the father, and the state in America Sarah was originally from. 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. She sends her aunt, Velvet, her Olympic medal, saying she deserved it.

Awards

Nanette Newman won a Evening Standard British Film Award for Best Actress.

Trivia

• International Velvet shares none of the stars with the original film.
• The Director Bryan Forbes cast his wife Nanette Newman in the role of Velvet Brown, over Elizabeth Taylor, who played her in the original film.
• Somehow The Pie, who was a chestnut gelding with white socks and a big blaze in the original film, becomes a dark bay stallion with no white at all in the sequel.

See also

• Olympic films