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Because the Disney Corporation marketed the movie as a true story, some historians criticized the film both because of the legendary status of Hopkins' claims and for the film's divergence from his accounts.
Mar 1, 2004 · Hidalgo tells the legend of one-time Pony Express rider Frank T. Hopkins (Viggo Mortensen, center) and his mustang, Hidalgo, competing against the world’s finest Arabian stallions in what the movie claims was the greatest endurance race ever run: the Ocean of Fire—a 3,000-mile race across the Arabian Desert.
Mar 4, 2004 · The movie Hidalgo, starring Viggo Mortensen, is based on the memoirs of Frank T. Hopkins, who claimed to have won a legendary horse race in the Arabian desert. But his story is full of lies and fabrications, according to experts and historians.
Mar 5, 2004 · Hidalgo: Directed by Joe Johnston. With Viggo Mortensen, Zuleikha Robinson, Omar Sharif, Louise Lombard. In 1890, a down-and-out cowboy and his horse travel to Arabia to compete in a deadly cross desert horse race.
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Every questioner has asked, “is Hidalgo really a true story, as the filmmakers claim?” Sadly, we have had to inform them that it is not, at least from the perspective of Hopkins’s non-existent connection with Buffalo Bill and the Wild West.
Feb 17, 2004 · When Disney spun the movie 'Hidalgo' as 'based on a true story,' questions began to fly, reports Bobbie Lieberman. Was its hero, Frank T. Hopkins, for real -- or a total fraud?
Based on the true story of the greatest long-distance horse race ever run, "Hidalgo" is an epic action-adventure and one man's journey of personal redemption. Held yearly for centuries, the Ocean of Fire - a 3,000 mile survival race across the Arabian Desert - was a challenge restricted to the finest Arabian horses ever bred, the purest and ...
