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Hidalgo is a 2004 epic biographical western film based on the legend of the American distance rider Frank Hopkins and his mustang Hidalgo. It recounts Hopkins' racing his horse in Arabia in 1891 against Bedouins riding pure-blooded Arabian horses .
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.
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.
An hidalgo (/ ɪ ˈ d æ l ɡ oʊ /, Spanish:) or a fidalgo (Portuguese: [fiˈðalɣu], Galician: [fiˈðalɣʊ]) is a member of the Spanish or Portuguese nobility; the feminine forms of the terms are hidalga, in Spanish, and fidalga, in Portuguese and Galician.
"The excitement begins when famed horseman Frank T. Hopkins (Viggo Mortensen) enters a grueling competition – "The Ocean Of Fire" – with his mustang Hidalgo....
An Arabian sheikh comes dare him to defend the show billing as the world's greatest endurance rider, by entering -as first Westerner- the millennial great 'ocean of fire' race across the unforgiving Arab deserts, which always eliminates most riders, often fatally. Hopkins enters with the first-ever non-thoroughbred, his trusted mustang Hidalgo.
Hidalgo. Rugged cowboy Frank Hopkins (Viggo Mortensen) is an expert horseman who performs in Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show. When affluent Sheik Riyadh (Omar Sharif), piqued by tales of Hopkins ...
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- Adventure, Action, Drama
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