Driving by his great talent and experience in race, Frank T Hobkins, a young talented cowboy, who is known with his achievements and his horse is known as the best horse ever in the west, has received an invitation to participate in the biggest Arabian race for horses, the thing that brings terrible for him.
It's a manqué of a rousing adventure tale and not the real thing. You're constantly aware of the gulf between how the movie wants to excite you and the halfhearted execution.
The event around which the movie revolves is a desert mirage, since there is no record of any such race ever being staged. Nonetheless, those able to ignore this outrageous historical distortion might enjoy this triumph of an underdog aganst the odds.
Even if the story were true, the film's events have been fictionalized beyond belief.
Fat Guys at the Movies
January 17, 2016
If you take it as historical fact, it's got a world of problems. But if you're just in the mood to be entertained, it can be a decent piece of Saturday afternoon escapism.