Miracle of the White Stallions

Miracle of the White Stallions is a 1963 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.

Miracle of the White Stallions
Theatrical Film Poster
Directed byArthur Hiller
Produced byRon Miller
Walt Disney
Written byAlois Podhajsky
AJ Carothers
Based onThe Dancing White Horses of Vienna
by Alois Podhajsky
StarringRobert Taylor
Lilli Palmer
Music byPaul J. Smith
CinematographyGünther Anders
Edited byAlfred Srp
Cotton Warburton
Production
company
Distributed byBuena Vista Distribution
Release date
  • March 29, 1963 (1963-03-29) (U.S.)
Running time
118 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Box office$2,550,000 (US/ Canada)[1]

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.[lower-alpha 1]

Cast

Comic book adaption

Notes
  1. Patton came from a wealthy and distinguished family, riding since childhood. Commissioned into the Cavalry, he represented the United States in the 1912 Olympics in the Modern pentathlon; one of its five events includes Show jumping. He designed the M1913 Cavalry saber (famed as the Patton saber), and went on to become the Cavalry's top instructor, then the Army's first Master of the Sword. Always a devoted rider, even during wartime, he was known until his death for wearing riding breeches and high boots as his distinct personal uniform.

See also

References
  1. "Top Rental Features of 1963", Variety, January 8, 1964 p 71. Please note figures are rentals as opposed to total gross.
  2. "Gold Key: Miracle of the White Stallions". Grand Comics Database.
  3. Gold Key: Miracle of the White Stallions at the Comic Book DB (archived from the original)


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