What is The Black Stallion (movie)?
{{Infobox film | name = The Black Stallion | image = | caption = | director = [[Carroll Ballard]] | producer = {{ubl|[[Fred Roos]]|[[Francis Ford Coppola]]|Tom Sternberg}} | screenplay = {{ubl|[[Melissa Mathison]]|Jeanne Rosenberg|[[William D. Wittliff]]}} | based_on = {{based on|''[[The Black Stallion]]''|[[Walter Farley]]}} | starring = {{ubl|[[Kelly Reno]]|[[Teri Garr]]|[[Clarence Muse]]|[[Hoyt Axton]]|[[Michael Higgins (actor)|Michael Higgins]]|[[Mickey Rooney]]}} | music = [[Carmine Coppola]] | cinematography = [[Caleb Deschanel]] | editing = [[Robert Dalva]] | color_process = [[Technicolor]] | studio = [[American Zoetrope]] | distributor = [[United Artists]] | released = {{Film date|1979|10|17}} | runtime = 118 minutes | country = United States | language = English | budget = $2.7 million | gross = $37.8 million<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.the-numbers.com/movies/1979/0BKSN.php|publisher=The Numbers|title=The Black Stallion, Box Office Information|access-date=January 28, 2012|archive-date=April 22, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120422133204/http://www.the-numbers.com/movies/1979/0BKSN.php|url-status=dead}}</ref> }} '''''The Black Stallion''''' is a 1979 [[adventure movie]] directed by Carroll Ballard. It is based on the children's book ''The Black Stallion'' by Walter Farley. It is about the friendship of the boy Alec Ramsey and an [[Arabian horse]]. The movie stars Kelly Reno, [[Teri Garr]], Hoyt Axton, [[Mickey Rooney]] and the [[Arabian horse]] Cass Ole. [[Francis Ford Coppola]] was one of the producers and his father, [[Carmine Coppola]] composed the music. == Plot == It is the summer of the year 1946. Alec Ramsey is on a ship with his father off the coast of North Africa. Alec discovers a black stallion on the ship. It is tied to ropes and upset. Alec feeds the hourse sugar. The owner rebukes him. Later Alec's father shows him the things he won from a card ga