A heart-warming human interest drama, superbly produces in Technicolor... the sort of picture that will appeal to all types of audiences.

| Mar 26, 2024

Every sequence in the picture will be loved by all observers who are not at loggerheads with mankind.

| Mar 26, 2024

If it preaches any lesson in rectitude and the comfort and dignity of character, it does so with friendly warmth and agreeable humor in terms of delightful diversion. All ages of both genders will find it pulsating with palatable pastiming.

| Mar 26, 2024

The plot of the film is strong, but it's the ordinary every day living touches that enrich it... the warm relationships between members of the family... the light comedy touches and deeper emotional moments.

| Mar 26, 2024

It leaps to thrilling action with the race itself, the most pictorially colorful, heart-stoppingly exciting event of the sort ever staged for the motion picture cameras.

| Mar 26, 2024

The picture is a delightful adaptation in Technicolor of Enid Bagnold's novel.

| Mar 26, 2024

It is a perfect, a glorious holiday attraction.

| Mar 26, 2024

It makes a most exciting and engaging film, and the basic improbability is no bar to the enjoyment of the story.

| Mar 26, 2024

There's a heartwarming quality about most of the characterizations, the action is valid, and the humor arising from family relationships is always sound.

| Mar 26, 2024

The story is one of faith. That means for everyone. It's sort of a fairy tale about a horse, about two children who had faith in the ability of that horse to run with the best of them. And win.

| Mar 26, 2024

A cinematic treat with its heart-warming story, its breathtaking presentation of the Grand National Sweepstakes, and its pictorial gorgeousness of land and sea, in soft technicolor tones that captivate the eye.

| Mar 26, 2024

While the movie is long, it's extremely pleasant, with some very funny touches of family humor -- ant it's a very safe bet to proclaim National Velvet a winnah!

| Mar 26, 2024

National Velvet makes you feel like a better person after you see it because it proves that fairy tales can turn into reality and that the strongest and most powerful force in life is a child's belief and her dreams.

| Mar 26, 2024

National Velvet is a picture of great tenderness and appeal -- recommended without reserve.

| Mar 26, 2024

Mr. Clarence Brown has directed it in such a refreshing burst of good will and with such a staunch belief in the faith of adolescents that the strains of the imagination dissolve into nothingness.

| Mar 26, 2024

The picture is a masterpiece, its beauty enhanced by the Technicolor scenes of the English countryside.

| Mar 26, 2024

The great moment of National Velvet, to be sure, is that in which Butcher Brown's little daughter, posing as a boy, rides the Pi in the Grand National. A finer, more smashing piece of film-making we never have seen than that in which the race is run.

| Mar 26, 2024

Except for prettying-up the vollage and the cottage, M.G.M's production is excellent -- and that goes particularly for the countryside exteriors.

| Mar 26, 2024

There has never been such an elaborate horse race on stage or screen as that presented in this picture. It has expansive setting, long sustained suspense, a multitude of incidents, and the well simulated excitement of the great crowd of onlookers.

| Mar 26, 2024

The picture is a spectacle of beauty throughout. The acting is delightful to watch and the story, with its very unusual plot, leaves nothing to be desired.

| Mar 26, 2024