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

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

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

All the performances are right, and Rooney, playing with rare restraint, sensibly allows young Miss Taylor to steal the picture.

| Mar 26, 2024

The pleasant day-dreaming mood of the author's main idea is enriched by delightful characterization and by color photography which, especially in the outdoor scenes, is breathtaking.

| Mar 26, 2024

It is not overdone, and has a homely atmosphere which makes it attractive.

| Mar 25, 2024

One of the most likable movies of all time.

| Mar 22, 2024

Pandro Berman, the producer, and Clarence Brown, the director, have made it into a conservatively exciting and engaging film whose chief virtue is its acting, especially a letter-perfect, beautifully felt performance by Mickey Rooney as the jockey.

| Aug 31, 2012

National Velvet is not merely sure to delight children and the child in most adults; it is also an interesting psychological study of hysterical obsession, conversion mania, preadolescent sexuality.

| Mar 23, 2011

A good movie for kids and armchair Freudians.

| Mar 23, 2011

Great family movie; even better for horse lovers.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Dec 26, 2010

National Velvet is a horse picture with wide general appeal. The production also focuses attention on a new dramatic find -- moppet Elizabeth Taylor.

| Mar 26, 2009

This is a charmer for boys and girls of all ages, with a captivating performance from the young Liz Taylor as Velvet.

| Jan 26, 2006

This fresh and delightful Metro picture, based on Enid Bagnold's novel of some years back, tells by far the most touching story of youngsters and of animals since Lassie was coming home.

| May 20, 2003