National Velvet (1944) is the story of a twelve-year girl, Velvet Brown, living in Sewels, in Sussex, England, who saves a horse from the knacker's yard and trains it for the Grand National steeplechase, aided by her father's hired hand, a young drifter, Mi Taylor. The fictional horse which Velvet Brown trained and rode in the National is called "The Pie." When she discovers that the Latvian jockey hired to ride the Pie doesn't believe he can win, she disguises herself as a male jockey and rides the horse to victory. MP4 format.

Cast: Mickey Rooney as Mi Taylor Donald Crisp as Mr. Herbert Brown Elizabeth Taylor as Velvet Brown Anne Revere as Mrs. Araminty Brown Angela Lansbury as Edwina Brown Jackie 'Butch' Jenkins as Donald Brown Juanita Quigley as Malvolia "Mally" Brown Arthur Treacher as Race Patron Reginald Owen as Farmer Ede Norma Varden as Miss Sims Terry Kilburn as Ted Arthur Shields as Mr. Hallam Aubrey Mather as Entry Official Alec Craig as Tim Eugene Loring as Ivan Taski