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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. The movie was written by John Fusco and directed by Joe Johnston.
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.
"The excitement begins when famed horseman Frank T. Hopkins (Viggo Mortensen) enters a grueling competition – "The Ocean Of Fire" – with his mustang Hidalgo....
When affluent Sheik Riyadh (Omar Sharif), piqued by tales of Hopkins' talent, challenges Hopkins to prove himself in a treacherous long-distance horse race called the Ocean of Fire, Hopkins...
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Famed horseman Frank T. Hopkins enters a grueling competition with his mustang Hidalgo. Together, they must not only survive a 3,000-mile race across blistering desert terrain; they must also thwart evil competitors who vow victory at any cost.
Cowboy Frank T. Hopkins, who has an Indian mother, was wounded and traumatized for life as US Cavalry scout at the Wounded Knee Massacre and joint Buffalo Bill's world travelling (Ringling Circus) Wild West show as horse stuntman as well as reputed horse racer.
Mar 5, 2004 · HIDALGO. "Hidalgo" is the kind of movie Hollywood has almost become too jaundiced to make anymore. Bold, exuberant and swashbuckling, it has the purity and simplicity of something Douglas Fairbanks or Errol Flynn might have bounded through.
