{"id":3889,"date":"2020-02-04T13:09:41","date_gmt":"2020-02-04T20:09:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theblackstallion.com\/web\/?p=3889"},"modified":"2020-02-04T13:09:41","modified_gmt":"2020-02-04T20:09:41","slug":"40th-film-anniversary-behind-the-scenes-part-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblackstallion.com\/web\/40th-film-anniversary-behind-the-scenes-part-3\/","title":{"rendered":"40th film anniversary. Behind the scenes part 3"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Black Stallion\u2019s Secret Weapon<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n
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BY Elizabeth Kaye McCall <\/span><\/p>\n

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Corky Randall: Legend and Friend<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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I met Hollywood horse trainer Corky Randall in 1997 on my first assignment for Cowboys & Indians. <\/em>The horses were in training for The Mask of Zorro<\/em>, one of his last films before retirement. My memories of the Hollywood horse training legend surfaced repeatedly while I was writing about the 40th anniversary of The Black Stallion<\/em>, the movie that launched Corky\u2019s training career.<\/p>\n

\u201cTraining is really more understanding the animal than anything else,\u201d Corky told me at one point. \u201cIt is also a profession that if you\u2019re going to be very good, or a master, it has to be in your blood or your mind.\u201d<\/p>\n

Corky had both. He was a two-time winner of the PATSY Award, the animal trainer\u2019s Oscar.<\/p>\n

Born in Gering, Nebraska, in 1929, Corky had polio as a child. His father disagreed with the polio treatment of the day. Instead, he had Corky jumping rope and exercising, and his grandmother rubbed his legs. By age 9 or 10, Corky was galloping Thoroughbred colts in the morning for his father before going to school.<\/p>\n

No big wonder that his father, Glenn Randall, Sr., would see horses as part of the regimen that would make his boy well. Randall Sr. trained Roy Rogers\u2019 Trigger and the horses on Ben Hur <\/em>(yes, the chariots!).<\/p>\n

Having survived polio, once Corky started wrangling horses at Republic Studios during high school, he never considered another lifestyle.<\/p>\n

While he\u2019d made his name as a horse trainer on The Black Stallion<\/em> 20-odd years before I met him, Corky still made a point of crediting his brother\u2019s role in his success. \u201cIf it weren\u2019t for \u2018J.R.\u2019 \u2014 \u201d Corky would say.<\/p>\n

J.R. as in \u201cjunior\u201d. \u201cJunior\u201d as in Hollywood stunt coordinator Glenn Randall Jr.<\/p>\n

In one of the last interviews I did with Corky, he declared Cass-Ol\u00e9 , the black Arabian star of The Black Stallion<\/em>, his all-time favorite equine actor. \u201cHe was so smart and such a character,\u201d Corky said. \u201cCass-Ol\u00e9 loved to be around people and he loved to make pictures. He was almost human. He even had an expression on his face and horses usually don\u2019t have expressions.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou run into exceptional animals. They come like people. Some are just outstandingly brilliant in certain fields. They\u2019re kind of like little kids. They like to show off and they\u2019re just very easy to work in a picture. They seem like a well-trained actor \u2014 they just fall in there and do their part.\u201d<\/p>\n

Corky died in 2009 at the age of 80. I will never forget the sound of his gravelly voice, his kindness, and his willingness to discuss horses and Hollywood.<\/p>\n

Nor will I forget something that Corky once said and that I remembered time and again while writing about that very special film: \u201cI think there are still a lot of successful pictures to be made with horses, if you can capture the relationship between the animal and the person, like they did on The Black Stallion.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

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More about The Black Stallion<\/h3>\n

The Black Stallion: A Heartwarming Epic For The Ages<\/a><\/p>\n

The Black Stallion\u2019s Accidental Screenwriter<\/a><\/p>\n

The Black Stallion at 40 With Stunt Coordinator Glenn Randall<\/a><\/p>\n

The Black Stallion at 40 With\u00a0Production Assistant Tim Farley<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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