The Rocking Horse Winner (1949)

“(OK) Pelissier is ok with this short great story by Lawrence, troubling, well contrast (between Mills jockey past and the boy in a wooden horse), with an excellent Valerie Hobson, strong support by Ronald Squire, even erotic soft undertones in the boy on the horse...” read more

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"Young Paul Grahame is the elder child in a family living well above their means. His mother Hester is a spendthrift badly hung up on money as some sort of status symbol, while his father, Richard is a gambler, and not a good one at that. The family are heading for bankruptcy unless some income comes in. Befriending the new handyman Bassett, Paul is delighted to find that Bassett is an ex-jockey and regales him with tales of horse racing, he even learns from Bassett how to ride his rocking horse "