(There are Spoilers) Cute little movie about an old horse trainer who comes back,or does he, as a thoroughbred race horse to fulfill a life long dream, which he never lived to see in his previous incarnation,in wining the Kentucky Derby!
Uncle Willie Ramsey, James Gleason, wanted to get his horse Sunset into the big race at Rowland Park, The Imperial Handicap, so if he won he'd be qualified to race against the best three year old's in the country in the world famous Kentucky Derby. Taking the lead in the stretch Sunset was just about to hit the finish line when this young boy, trying to get the attention of the racehorse, threw a paper airplane in it's path spooking the animal and causing Sunset to breakdown losing the big race. Uncle Willie shocked at the bizarre circumstances of his horse's defeat collapsed and later died at Rowland Gereral Hospital from a massive heart-attack.
The sudden death of Uncle Willie left his niece Terry, Terry Moore, all alone and forced her to live with her wealthy Aunt Martha, Dame May Witty, and her stuffed up and greedy, waiting for Aunt Martha to finally kick off, cousins: Cousin Margaret, Victoria Horne, who drinks Cousin Therese, Nana Bryant, who doesn't but should and Cousin Johanthan, Byron Foulger, who does absolutely nothing!
A strange incident occurred about a year after Uncle Willie's death in that Terry attending a thoroughbred horse auction spotted this three year old bay colt named October! October was not only wearing a felt hat that Uncle Willie used to wear but was also allergic, like Uncle Willie, to the plant goldenrod and on top of all that the horse likes to listen to the late Uncle Willie's favorite radio show Amos & Andy! October also seemed to have a genuine attraction to Terry! Can it be that October is Uncle Willie in the "horse" flesh coming back as a horse to win his beloved Kentucky Derby?
Getting this "Snookle" of a psychology professor Bentley Bassett Jr, Glenn Ford, to buy October Terry plans to get the horse to run in the Derby and win it for Uncle Willie whom she believes has been reincarnated as the racehorse. Prof. Bassett who had an altercation, at the racetrack, with Terry earlier in the movie is using her for a thesis in human and animal psychology that he's writing for Rowland University.
It's that thesis that in the end would get Terry to resent that closed minded "Snookle", Prof. Bassett, in that it was used by her cousins and their corrupt family lawyer Mitchell, Fredric Tozewe, to prove her to be mentally unstable. Aunt Martha had since passed away and she left all her holdings to Terry since she was the only person who wasn't infatuated with her money like all the others in her will: The three cousin's and what turned to be that sneaky and embezzling, of her bank accounts, shyster Mitchell.
The movie ends on a both winning and bittersweet note with October not only running his heart out in winning the Kentucky Derby but Terry being vindicated, in her belief that the horse was really Uncle Wille, and thus proving that she was in fact normal. This happens when everyone at the race track, 82,000 strong, including the presiding judge at her sanity trial Judge Northridge, Samuel Hind, started cheering at the top of their lungs for the horse "Uncle Willie", not October, to win the race!
In the end even the "Snookle" Prof. Bassett believed that there's was something to Terry's strong belief in the Uncle Willie-October connection. It was just that he was so into his own small and narrow world of modern psychological research that he was,like a horse wearing blinders, totally blind to everything else that was, like reincarnation parapsychology or just plain magic, beyond it.
Uncle Willie Ramsey, James Gleason, wanted to get his horse Sunset into the big race at Rowland Park, The Imperial Handicap, so if he won he'd be qualified to race against the best three year old's in the country in the world famous Kentucky Derby. Taking the lead in the stretch Sunset was just about to hit the finish line when this young boy, trying to get the attention of the racehorse, threw a paper airplane in it's path spooking the animal and causing Sunset to breakdown losing the big race. Uncle Willie shocked at the bizarre circumstances of his horse's defeat collapsed and later died at Rowland Gereral Hospital from a massive heart-attack.
The sudden death of Uncle Willie left his niece Terry, Terry Moore, all alone and forced her to live with her wealthy Aunt Martha, Dame May Witty, and her stuffed up and greedy, waiting for Aunt Martha to finally kick off, cousins: Cousin Margaret, Victoria Horne, who drinks Cousin Therese, Nana Bryant, who doesn't but should and Cousin Johanthan, Byron Foulger, who does absolutely nothing!
A strange incident occurred about a year after Uncle Willie's death in that Terry attending a thoroughbred horse auction spotted this three year old bay colt named October! October was not only wearing a felt hat that Uncle Willie used to wear but was also allergic, like Uncle Willie, to the plant goldenrod and on top of all that the horse likes to listen to the late Uncle Willie's favorite radio show Amos & Andy! October also seemed to have a genuine attraction to Terry! Can it be that October is Uncle Willie in the "horse" flesh coming back as a horse to win his beloved Kentucky Derby?
Getting this "Snookle" of a psychology professor Bentley Bassett Jr, Glenn Ford, to buy October Terry plans to get the horse to run in the Derby and win it for Uncle Willie whom she believes has been reincarnated as the racehorse. Prof. Bassett who had an altercation, at the racetrack, with Terry earlier in the movie is using her for a thesis in human and animal psychology that he's writing for Rowland University.
It's that thesis that in the end would get Terry to resent that closed minded "Snookle", Prof. Bassett, in that it was used by her cousins and their corrupt family lawyer Mitchell, Fredric Tozewe, to prove her to be mentally unstable. Aunt Martha had since passed away and she left all her holdings to Terry since she was the only person who wasn't infatuated with her money like all the others in her will: The three cousin's and what turned to be that sneaky and embezzling, of her bank accounts, shyster Mitchell.
The movie ends on a both winning and bittersweet note with October not only running his heart out in winning the Kentucky Derby but Terry being vindicated, in her belief that the horse was really Uncle Wille, and thus proving that she was in fact normal. This happens when everyone at the race track, 82,000 strong, including the presiding judge at her sanity trial Judge Northridge, Samuel Hind, started cheering at the top of their lungs for the horse "Uncle Willie", not October, to win the race!
In the end even the "Snookle" Prof. Bassett believed that there's was something to Terry's strong belief in the Uncle Willie-October connection. It was just that he was so into his own small and narrow world of modern psychological research that he was,like a horse wearing blinders, totally blind to everything else that was, like reincarnation parapsychology or just plain magic, beyond it.