- and competitions, promoting the pill with each prize won.
He presents the idea to his boss and to the client. The client agrees, and Helen gets a horse to ride - the beautiful gray Aspercel, “the horse in the gray flannel suit.
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Helen tries her hand at riding in the horse shows. She and Aspercel need to win some prizes in order to make it all work, but things just don’t go smooth.
After some mishaps and a lot of frustration, Fred discovers Aspercel’s real talent: the horse is an excellent jumper. Helen’s riding instructor Susie (Diane
Baker) suggest that they try to enter him in the jumper championship at the Washington International Horse Show, the biggest competition with the biggest prize of all. Helen is not yet good enough to take up such a challenge, so Fred lets Susie, the instructor, be the rider. The filming of the huge competition is very good, a horse-lover’s delight.
Aspercel wins, so there is a happy end.
This movie stars the young Kurt Russel as a boy interested in Helen, introducing a little romantic subplot, nice and tastefully done.
Russel’s fans will be pleased to see him as a teenager.
