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Miracle of the White Stallions
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Wikipedia article
'Miracle of the White Stallions' is a 1963 American adventure war film released by Walt Disney starring Robert Taylor (playing Alois Podhajsky), Lilli Palmer, and Eddie Albert. It is the story of the evacuation of the Lipizzaner horses from the Spanish Riding School in Vienna during World War II. Major parts of the movie were shot at the Hermesvilla palace in the Lainzer Tiergarten of Vienna, a former hunting area for the Habsburg nobility. The music for the soundtrack was based on the first movement of Franz Schubert's Marche Militaire no 1, D733.
Plot
In World War II Austria, Col. Alois Podhajsky sets out to protect his beloved Lipizzaner stallions - purebred white show horses with centuries of tradition - from starving refugees and the advancing Soviet Army, which might also view them as a food source. Hoping to surrender them into safekeeping, he seeks out U.S. General George S. Patton, a noted horse fancier.
Cast
*Robert Taylor - Col. Alois Podhajsky
*Lilli Palmer - Vedena Podhajsky
*Curd Jrgens - Gen. Tellheim
*Eddie Albert - Rider Otto
*James Franciscus - Maj. Hoffman
*John Larch - Gen. George S. Patton
*Brigitte Horney - Countess Arco-Valley
*Philip Abbott - Col. Reed
*Douglas Fowley - U.S. General
*Charles Rgnier - SS-'Brigadefhrer' Streicher
*Fritz Wepper - Rider Hans
*Guenther Haenel - Groom Sascha
*Hans Habietinek - Innkeeper Hager
*Philo Hauser - Dispatcher
*Michael Janisch - Refugee Leader
*Max Haufler - Engineer
*Robert Dietl - German MP Captain
*Erik Schumann - German Capt. Danhoff
*Helmuth Janatsch - Intruder
*Michael Tellering - Stryker's Adjutant
*James Dobson - Southern GI
Comic book adaption
* Gold Key: 'Miracle of the White Stallions' (June 1963)
Notes
See also
*List of American films of 1963
References
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