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    Re: [RC] Actors Who Can Ride - Barbara McCrary


    One of the most exciting horse-rider teams in movies is Rutger Hauer on a
    magnificent black Friesen in "Ladyhawke".  Have no idea whether he was
    actually the rider, but the horse was something else!!!
    
    Barbara
    
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    > I guess i am dating myself, but Charlton Heston did a lot of his own
    > riding...and in the Big Country was riding a gorgeous black and white
    paint.
    > Gregory Peck, the greenhorn, is set up to ride "Old Thunder", this nasty,
    > bronc Appy.  Later, when no one is looking, he rides the horse to
    > docility.....it's still a favorite phrase of ours when someone is going to
    > get on a rogue horse...."You goin to ride ole Tunder??"
    >
    > A pretty funny horse movie is the Rounders, with Glenn Ford and Henry
    > Fonday...There is a roan horse than dumps Glenn repeatedly....they can't
    run
    > him over, shoot him or give him away.....
    >
    > My daughter says in 13th Warrior, that Antonio Banderas rides and jumps
    the
    > Arabian.  He also rode in Zorro.
    >
    > Hey, what about WOMEN?  I believe Julia Roberts has horses and rode in
    > Conspiracy Theory, and Something to Talk About.
    >
    > Again, one of my all time favorite movie scenes, and no doubt a stunt
    > double...but in Big County, the scene where Jean Simmons runs down the
    hill
    > with her rifle, and vaults bareback onto haltered horse and gallops up the
    > hill.
    >
    > Karen
    >
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