"25.000" "[Delicate instrumental music]" "[Delicate instrumental music]" "BLACK BEAUTY:" "The story of my life is the story of the people in it." "I haven't always been as lucky as I am now in this delicious place of water and grass and sunlight." "Mine is a story of trust and betrayal and learning to trust again." "I remember everything." "FARMER GREY:" "I'm here, Duchess." "FARMER GREY:" "I'll help you." "Come on, old lass." "Come on, push." "Push!" "BLACK BEAUTY:" "It was cold and too bright and strange out in the air." "But then my mother kissed me." "I wanted to be nearer to her." "[Frolicsome instrumental music]" "FARMER GREY:" "Over here, little one." "It's all right." "[Frolicsome instrumental music continues]" "BLACK BEAUTY:" "In the beginning, I stayed as close to my mother as I could." "As the weeks went by, I still stayed right beside her but I began to have my own ideas of what we should do." "So much of the time, she would just stand there." "Hurry up!" "Let's go!" "[Delicate instrumental music]" "[Instrumental music swells]" "Come on, come on." "BLACK BEAUTY:" "I don't like this." "I do not like this!" "FARMER GREY:" "Don't fight me." "BLACK BEAUTY:" "Everything's changing." "Even I'm changing." "Come on." "BLACK BEAUTY:" "A black coat's taking over my baby fur." "It's happening too fast." "When I turned 3 my master sent me to spend the year with a gang of other colts." "[Exuberant instrumental music]" "BLACK BEAUTY:" "Now it was time." "Training." "The bit was the first thing." "Terrible bars of cold, hard steel between your teeth and over your tongue." "If you've never had one in your mouth, you can't imagine what a shock it is." "But thank heaven for oats!" "When you're eating them, you can forget the bit's nasty coldness the bitter, metallic taste." "Delicious oats." "Sweet oats." "Lovely, crunchy oats." "Beautiful oats." "Splendid oats...ow!" "Here." "It's just a saddle." "BLACK BEAUTY:" "It's choking me!" "FARMER GREY:" "You can still move." "Promise." "BLACK BEAUTY:" "Nobody could walk with this." "Come back here with those oats." "At first, the iron shoes made my feet feel stiff and heavy." "[Frolicsome instrumental music]" "BLACK BEAUTY:" "I said, "No!" But he said, "Go!"" "Come on." "BLACK BEAUTY:" "Once I discovered that he and I that the two of us could become one this business turned out to be perfectly glorious!" "[Exuberant instrumental music]" "[Delicate instrumental music]" "BLACK BEAUTY:" "It was now time for me to go to a new home." "My mother was proud of me and encouraged me." "She knew my master would only let me go to good people." "But I would miss her." "Before long, a man came to take me to Birtwick Park to live with Squire Gordon's family." "ALFRED:" "Just a moment!" "Molly!" "ALFRED:" "Come here with that pony." "MOLLY:" "Run, Merry." "Faster!" "Please stay inside." "You're still much too weak." "I won't break." "I want to see him." "SQUIRE:" "It's a horse." "Nothing more, nothing less, I promise." "MISTRESS:" "A beautiful horse!" "Beauty is as beauty does." "How was he, John?" "JOHN:" "Perfect, sir." "They were shooting rabbits near Highwood and the guns went off." "He pulled at such, and looked, but he didn't step off the path." "JOHN:" "Did you, young fella?" "MISTRESS:" "What shall we call him?" "SQUIRE:" "We'll decide over tea." "You must get out of this air." "MISTRESS:" "He's as black as ebony." "Ebony." "Ebony." "Sounds like "bones."" "Settle him in the stables." "JOHN:" "Pleasure, sir." "We'll call him Blackbird, after your uncle's old horse." "But Blackbird was ugly and mean-tempered." "Wait." "You've already named him." "Pardon?" ""Beauty is as beauty does."" "That's not a name." "MISTRESS:" "Yes, it is." "Beauty." "MISTRESS:" "Black Beauty." "BLACK BEAUTY:" "A new name a new home and a stable full of new horses to meet." "[Whinnies menacingly]" "JOHN:" "She'll be all right." "BLACK BEAUTY:" "She was ill-tempered." "She was mean-spirited." "She was vicious." "She was the most beautiful creature I'd ever seen." "JESSICA:" "I hate Alfred." "MOLLY:" "Me too." "MOLLY:" "Let me down!" "Charge!" "ALFRED:" "Lazy pony!" "ALFRED:" "Move!" "Stop it!" "[Girls laugh ]" "ALFRED:" "Move along!" "Merrylegs!" "MOLLY:" "Quick, Merrylegs!" "JESSICA:" "Run!" "JESSICA: [Shouts] Keep running, Merrylegs!" "[Neighs]" "BLACK BEAUTY:" "Mine too." "Open mine too!" "Merrylegs." "What a perfect name for the little fellow." "MOLLY:" "Leave him alone!" "JESSICA:" "Leave him alone!" "JOHN:" "Whoa there, Joe!" "Better let young Joe catch him, Master Alfred." "He needs the practice." "Go on now." "Round them up." "Thank you for offering to help." "JOHN:" "I expect it's time for your tea now, isn't it?" "Yes, I expect it is." "Tea time, girls." "Jessica, Molly, come along!" "MOLLY: [Whispers] It's a good thing John came when he did." "JESSICA: [Whispers] It certainly is." "BLACK BEAUTY:" "Joe had a good heart but really not a clue." "JOE:" "Stand still, will you?" "Stop running." "Come on, everybody!" "BLACK BEAUTY:" "What a wonderful place." "[Neighs]" "[Exuberant instrumental music]" "BLACK BEAUTY:" "I flew down to her." "I knew it would be magic between us." "Hey!" "Wait a second." "What do you think you're doing?" "Please!" "Easy, Ginger, easy." "JOE:" "What's the matter with her?" "JOHN:" "They must've battered her." "We treat her well and give her her head, she'll come round, surely enough." "Back him on in." "JOHN:" "Kind treatment makes good horses, Joe." "Bad treatment ruins them." "Straighten him out." "I can't." "JOHN:" "Yes, you can." "BLACK BEAUTY:" "Was I ever going to win her affection?" "When we came to the hill instead of slowing down and leaving me to do the work she threw her weight into the collar and pulled away, straight up." "Our paces matched perfectly." "I was sure that afterwards, things would be different between us." "They were." "They were worse." "Now she ignored me completely." "I bounded." "I leaped to the sky!" "I tried everything to get her attention." "[Frolicsome instrumental music]" "[Thunder rumbles]" "BLACK BEAUTY:" "Even though I was new the squire and John trusted me to get them safely back from town no matter how terrible the storm." "The wild branches tried to grab me." "The rain stung my eyes like a thousand bees!" "SQUIRE:" "Keep moving, Beauty!" "BLACK BEAUTY:" "The bridge was flooded." "But it looked safe." "As I reached the middle, I knew at once that something was wrong." "Beauty, forward!" "SQUIRE:" "Go forward!" "[Ominous wooden creaking]" "BLACK BEAUTY:" "Everything inside me screamed not to go any further." "Go forward!" "BLACK BEAUTY:" "I wanted to obey him but he was wrong." "[Neighs frantically]" "I know, chum." "I know." "[Ominous wooden creaking]" "BLACK BEAUTY:" "How can I make you understand?" "We can't go near there!" "Come on, Beauty." "For me." "BLACK BEAUTY:" "I stood fast." "I tried to tell him." "JOHN:" "That's enough!" "[Screams]" "[Yells] John!" "BLACK BEAUTY:" "I didn't know how long I could hold on to him." "I had to hold on!" "JOHN:" "God bless you, Beauty." "[Nickers]" "MISTRESS:" "What happened?" "JOHN:" "I'll be all right, Mistress." "JOHN:" "I just need to look after the horse." "MISTRESS:" "You will not." "Come inside at once." "JOHN:" "Beauty needs looking after." "JOE:" "I'll look after him, Uncle John." "JOHN:" "All right." "Do what I've shown you, Joe." "BLACK BEAUTY:" "Not Joe." "He doesn't know what to do." "The drying sweat and rain sent a chill down to my bones." "JOE:" "You don't need that rug." "You're boiling hot." "BLACK BEAUTY:" "I wanted my rug." "I wanted a heap of rugs." "The icy water hit my stomach like a kick in the guts." "But I was so thirsty." "By the next morning I was sick." "[Labored breathing]" "Ginger stayed up all night with me." "Feeling sorry for me softened her." "Oh, dear Lord!" "BLACK BEAUTY:" "It hurts." "JOHN:" "There's no rug put on." "JOHN:" "Stupid, stupid boy." "Joe!" "JOHN:" "I expect the water was cold as well." "JOHN:" "Run to the house and bring another blanket." "JOHN:" "Now!" "JOHN:" "Come on." "JOHN:" "You must drink it, come on." "SQUIRE:" "My poor Beauty." "My good horse." "Let's hope it does him some good." "SQUIRE:" "You go on to bed now, John." "I'll stay with him tonight." "SQUIRE:" "We've done the best we can." "JOHN:" "He may need some help." "[Melancholy instrumental music]" "[Melancholy instrumental music continues]" "[Labored breathing]" "BLACK BEAUTY:" "Every little noise was torture." "[Laughter]" "MOLLY:" "Alfred, stop it!" "MOLLY:" "Told you!" "[Gasps]" "SQUIRE:" "Children, that's enough!" "They're fine, dear." "JOE:" "Please get well." "JOE:" "Beauty!" "[Neighs]" "JOE:" "Uncle John!" "JOE:" "Uncle John!" "Come and see Black Beauty!" "BLACK BEAUTY:" "Ginger...." "BLACK BEAUTY:" "I was put into a paddock to recuperate." "BLACK BEAUTY:" "Joe came to visit me every day." "JOE:" "Catch me if you can!" "[Neighs]" "JOE:" "What's wrong?" "JOE:" "Can't you get up here?" "All right, I'm coming." "JOE:" "What are you doing?" "[Joe laughs]" "JOE:" "No!" "Not the sheets!" "JOE:" "Sorry!" "[Joe laughs]" "[Delicate instrumental music]" "BLACK BEAUTY:" "My mistress became so ill we had to take her to a doctor a specialist who lived far away." "OSTLER:" "You won't smoke that pipe in these stables." "COACHMAN:" "Yeah, yeah." "Keep your shirt on, skinny." "JOE:" "Evening." "COACHMAN:" "Evening." "That idiot left a lamp up here." "COACHMAN:" "Little know-it-all ought to mind his own business." "COACHMAN:" "You complain about my pipe, but you leave a lamp near the hay." "For you to see by." "Bring it down here, will you?" "COACHMAN:" "Lucky for you I came up here." "[Ominous instrumental music]" "BLACK BEAUTY:" "What?" "What's that?" "JOHN:" "Beauty!" "It's only for tonight." "JOHN:" "What are you afraid of?" "You'll be all right." "COACHMAN:" "I'll come for the horse in the morning." "JOE:" "I'm off too." "JOHN:" "Easy." "JOHN:" "Eat your hay." "[Black Beauty neighs anxiously]" "[Ominous instrumental music]" "BLACK BEAUTY:" "The sounds and smells were so strange." "I didn't know what they were." "If you've never heard or smelled something, how can you understand it?" "[Anxious snorts and whinnies]" "[Shrill whinnies of fear]" "[Frantic neighing]" "[Shrill whinnies of fear]" "JOE:" "Whoa, Beauty." "I'm here." "BLACK BEAUTY:" "No!" "BLACK BEAUTY:" "I can't leave Ginger!" "I won't let it hurt you!" "JOE:" "Don't look at it!" "BLACK BEAUTY:" "I couldn't see anything." "BLACK BEAUTY:" "I had to follow him!" "Joe?" "[Screams] Joe!" "[Dramatic instrumental music]" "BLACK BEAUTY:" "Joe saved us." "The other horses were rescued too, but no one could help our mistress." "Her illness was so advanced that the doctor told her to move to a warmer place." "BLACK BEAUTY:" "The family would have to leave England and us." "STATIONMASTER:" "Right this way." "Leaving in five minutes." "Goodbye, John." "Bless you." "Please God, we may see you back again soon." "STATIONMASTER:" "Portsmouth train leaving from platform one." "MOLLY:" "We love you, Merrylegs." "JESSICA:" "You're the best." "MOLLY:" "We'll never forget you." "ALFRED:" "Time to go, sisters." "I want to thank you, John, for your faithful service to my family." "We shall never forget you, sir." "Goodbye, my Beauty." "[Train whistle]" "[Melancholy instrumental music]" "BLACK BEAUTY:" "Nevermore were we to see our family." "Nevermore." "It was our last time together in the big pasture but it was something nobody could ever take away from us." "[Delicate instrumental music]" "BLACK BEAUTY:" "They were dancing!" "[Instrumental music swells]" "BLACK BEAUTY:" "The vicar came to take Merrylegs away." "He'd promised the squire he would never sell him." "I hated saying goodbye to that plucky little pony." "In no time, Ginger and Joe and I also found ourselves miles away from everything dear and familiar." "Horses to the back!" "What do you think you're doing?" "[Joe sniffles softly]" "I swear to you someday, somehow I'll be with you again." "BLACK BEAUTY:" "Take me with you now." "BLACK BEAUTY:" "Joe...." "[Neighs]" "BLACK BEAUTY: [Sadly] Don't go." "But he was gone." "YORK:" "Lady Wexmire, Lord Wexmire Lord George." "BLACK BEAUTY:" "They stared." "Staring at us with their critical eyes." "To them, we were no more alive than the bits of harness on our backs." "Look at the long legs on the chestnut mare." "What a hunter she'd make." "She'd fly over the jumps." "LAD Y WEXMIRE:" "You must put these horses' heads higher." "LORD WEXMIRE:" "They're not accustomed to the bearing rein." "Their groom said they'd never used the rein on either one." "Didn't he, York?" "He did, my lord." "Be safer to bring them up by degrees." "Pish-posh!" "These animals are not fit to be seen." "One notch tighter won't kill them, will it?" "York?" "As you wish, my lady." "Reuben, attend to the mare." "BLACK BEAUTY:" "Tightening a bearing rein pulls back your head so that you have to carry it uncomfortably high." "People think it makes a horse look fancy." "But it made Ginger angry." "BLACK BEAUTY:" "This was a very grand place we'd come to." "Three or four times the size of Birtwick Park but not at all pleasant if a horse may have an opinion." "Ordinarily, we would have put our heads down and forward but not now." "Now we had to pull with our heads up." "Pain shot through our backs and legs." "For what?" "[Scornfully] For fashion." "Rein them tighter, York." "As you wish, my lady." "Reuben, shorten the bearing rein on the mare." "BLACK BEAUTY:" "A bearing rein is well named." "For it is unbearable." "It makes no sense." "And nonsense can drive a horse mad." "Rein them tighter, York!" "As you wish, my lady." "BLACK BEAUTY:" "I didn't know how much longer Ginger could stand it." "LAD Y WEXMIRE:" "For pity's sake." "Are you never going to get their heads up?" "Raise them at once!" "As you wish, my lady." "Quickly!" "BLACK BEAUTY:" "And then it happened." "[Neighs shrilly]" "You incompetent fool!" "YORK:" "Whoa, there!" "[Neighs frantically]" "YORK:" "Keep a hold of her!" "YORK:" "Hang on!" "LAD Y WEXMIRE:" "I can't be late for the Duchess!" "YORK:" "Get him!" "Quick!" "REUBEN:" "Give it here." "Get that shaft off." "Go on!" "Get it!" "YORK:" "The bloody rein's choking her." "YORK:" "There, lassie." "You idiot!" "YORK:" "These horses have more brains than you!" "[Snorts and neighs]" "Cover the chestnut with a blanket." "You fetch hot water and lotion for the black one." "YORK:" "Whoa, there." "YORK: [Shouts] Stay!" "Take care of the black one too." "As you wish, Mr. York." "BLACK BEAUTY:" "My leg hurt." "The wound was deep." "REUBEN:" "Well, it's her own silly fault if she misses her tea party not yours." "REUBEN:" "No, nor mine neither." "It's enough to drive anybody back to drink." "BLACK BEAUTY:" "They put wicked contraptions around our necks so we couldn't even turn our heads to lick our wounds." "After that my lady never called for Ginger again." "I, on the other hand continued to be subject to her every whim." "Oh...." "Reuben...." "Look, man, look!" "[Farts]" "[Sound of droppings falling on carpet]" "CARRIAGEMAKER:" "Got a job for us then?" "REUBEN:" "Yes." "It's stood out in all weathers." "REUBEN:" "Between that and the roads up there." "CARRIAGEMAKER:" "Plenty of rot here." "REUBEN:" "Plenty of rot everywhere." "CARRIAGEMAKER:" "What do they want to do?" "Me lady craves a new coat of paint." "I believe your lady could use a good deal more than a new coat of paint." "REUBEN:" "Amen." "Keep the horse for me, will you?" "Best leave it saddled." "I daren't be late." "CARRIAGEMAKER:" "Where are you going then?" "REUBEN:" "I'll be back later." "[Groans drunkenly]" "ASSISTANT:" "Listen." "ASSISTANT:" "There's a loose shoe." "REUBEN:" "Where are you going?" "ASSISTANT:" "You mustn't ride him, Mr. Smith." "REUBEN: [Slurring] Now stand up, will you?" "He's standing." "Come on, there." "Come on." "Now stand up." "[Groans]" "Where's your head?" "REUBEN: [Shouts] Get out of the way!" "REUBEN:" "Come on." "[Dramatic instrumental music]" "BLACK BEAUTY:" "He pushed me and pushed me and pushed me!" "What was the matter with him?" "I was losing my shoe but he had lost his mind!" "[Clanking of loose shoe]" "[Clanking worsens]" "BLACK BEAUTY:" "My body couldn't escape but my thoughts could." "They took me away from that awful place." "Far away." "[Delicate instrumental music]" "BLACK BEAUTY:" "But there was Reuben still lying where he'd fallen." "I stayed with him." "My mother had taught me to be loyal, no matter what." "YORK:" "Good Lord, what's happened here?" "YORK:" "Roll him over." "YORK:" "See if we can get him to his feet." "NED:" "I'll carry him." "BLACK BEAUTY:" "Every step was agony." "I didn't know if my knees would ever heal." "We don't get to choose the people in our lives." "For us, it's all chance." "LORD GEORGE:" "Come on." "LORD GEORGE:" "Come on, get on." "Get on!" "[Ginger pants laboriously]" "[Cheering]" "He won!" "LAD Y WEXMIRE:" "Lovely ride." "LORD GEORGE:" "Thank you, Mama." "LORD WEXMIRE:" "Good God, George." "What have you done to the horse?" "Didn't you bother to train her?" "LORD GEORGE:" "I won the race." "You've broken her." "She can't breathe properly." "BLACK BEAUTY:" "Ginger loved jumping." "Her heart leapt at every fence." "But they raced her before she was fit and it shattered her." "LORD WEXMIRE:" "They used to be such beautiful animals." "Now just look at them." "Ruined." "A 12-month run should bring back the mare's wind, my lord." "Well, the black one will have to be sold." "LORD WEXMIRE:" "I won't have knees like that in my stables." "BLACK BEAUTY:" "Sold?" "Every horse knows that terrifying word." "BLACK BEAUTY:" "When they came to take me away, it was so sudden that Ginger and I didn't even get to say goodbye." "[Melancholy instrumental music]" "BLACK BEAUTY:" "The terrible man who bought me kept horses for rent." "JOB HORSE BOSS:" "Suck it in!" "BLACK BEAUTY:" "I was rented out to anyone who wanted to hire me." "I was glad my friends couldn't see me now." "They wouldn't even have known me." "BLACK BEAUTY:" "We hated that man." "You missed me, you stupid beasts." "[Yelps]" "[Cheering and applause]" "[Animated bargaining]" "BUYER:" "This horse is 20 if it's a day." "BLACK BEAUTY:" "This lively place lifted my spirits." "FRIEND:" "I'll meet you after the fair, Joe." "BLACK BEAUTY:" "Wait!" "I know who that is." "It's Joe!" "Older, taller but it's him!" "Where'd he go?" "[Black Beauty neighs frantically]" "BUYER:" "What happened to his knees?" "BLACK BEAUTY:" "Stop!" "DEALER:" "He took a spill in the stalls." "BUYER:" "A spill?" "BLACK BEAUTY:" "What are you doing?" "Where's Joe?" "There he is." "Let me go!" "BUYER:" "Lively one, isn't he?" "[Frantic neighing continue]" "BLACK BEAUTY:" "Joe, don't leave!" "I'm here!" "DEALER:" "Horses for sale!" "DEALER:" "Twenty-five guineas, he's yours." "Fifteen." "Eighteen." "Sixteen." "DEALER:" "Eighteen!" "JERRY:" "Seventeen, not a penny more." "DEALER:" "Done!" "[Chaotic urban background noise]" "BLACK BEAUTY:" "How are you supposed to get through?" "There were too many people." "There was too much noise." "The smell was awful." "JERRY:" "Coming through." "There's a lad." "BLACK BEAUTY:" "Where was the grass?" "Where were the trees?" "JERRY:" "Excuse me." "BLACK BEAUTY:" "It was cramped and damp and dank and dark and dreary." "Jerry, what's wrong with him?" "He's frightened." "JERRY:" "Step up." "Let me go." "I want to go and pet him." "Give me a brush, Dolly." "Don't worry." "JERRY:" "Harry, put some straw in that stall." "POLLY:" "Dolly, no!" "JERRY:" "It's all right." "JERRY:" "Come on." "Let's do it quietly." "JERRY:" "Give him a chance." "JERRY:" "Up we go." "There we are." "Thank you." "It's like baby fur here." "He's so soft." "Yeah, he is." "Come on, Pol, give us a hand." "JERRY:" "How's it going with that straw?" "All ready." "JERRY:" "Go and get yourself a brush, then." "JERRY:" "There." "JERRY:" "He's not so frightened now." "POLLY:" "And when he has to pull the cab?" "JERRY:" "Have faith." "BLACK BEAUTY:" "I listened quietly." "HARRY:" "What should we call him?" "JERRY:" "Jack." "After the old one." "He's far blacker than Jack." "When's he's cleaned, his color comes up lovely." "JERRY:" "See something in him now, do you?" "POLLY:" "I didn't say that." "JERRY:" "All right." "We'll call you Black, because you are, and Jack, after the old one." "And altogether, Black Jack, because the odds are stacked against us both." "Black Jack." "What you got?" "Black Jack wants to be pretty." "Good idea." "BLACK BEAUTY:" "All at once, I had hope." "It's good people that make good places." "Still, I wondered what tomorrow would bring." "[Chaotic urban background noise]" "JERRY:" "Walk on." "Come on." "That's it." "JERRY:" "Walk on." "VENDOR:" "Babaloo's Food Emporium." "RAT CATCHER:" "Rat problem solved." "RAT CATCHER:" "Vermin exterminated!" "JERRY:" "Easy, boy." "CABBY 1:" "Hello, Jerry!" "Have you got a good one?" "Great one!" "CABBY 2:" "He's too black!" "Be good for a funeral!" "JERRY:" "Good lad." "Come around." "Braids on his mane and tail?" "CABBY 3:" "What?" "Are you going on a parade this afternoon, Jerry?" "JERRY:" "He wanted to be pretty for his first day." "CABBY 4: "Pretty for his first day?" Did you hear that, lads?" "JERRY:" "Well, he's a regular dandy." "A bit like meself." "Why shouldn't you be?" "Don't worry." "No worry, old Black, old Jack, old boy." "JERRY: [Hushing] It's all right." "BLACK BEAUTY:" "Jerry's hands." "The quiet of them gave me confidence." "We spent our days at one cab stand or another collecting passengers." "It was a hard life." "The streets are hard on a horse's feet." "The cab is hard on a horse's back." "But I was lucky." "I had Jerry." "We were in it together." "DINAH:" "Morning." "JERRY:" "Morning, Dinah." "MAN:" "Cabby!" "CABBY 1:" "There you go, Jerry." "Cabby!" "CABBY 1:" "You all right, dear?" "DINAH:" "Yes, I'm all right." "CABBY 1:" "Let's get these up quickly." "You'll get run over." "MAN:" "Look sharp!" "MAN:" "Put on the steam and get us to Victoria by 10:00." "JERRY:" "We'll take you, but at the regular pace." "MAN:" "It'll mean a shilling extra." "At the regular pace." "I'm your man." "I'll get you there in time." "It's against his conscience to work his horse into a sweat, but not mine." "EAGER CABBY:" "Make way." "Coming through!" "Get up." "Get up!" "Easy, easy, peasy, little gee-gee." "JERRY:" "You all right, Dinah?" "DINAH:" "I'm still in one piece, Jerry." "Bonkers, all of them." "EAGER CABBY:" "Coming through!" "POLLY:" "Dinah Brown's mother she's in a bad way." "JERRY:" "Poor Dinah." "She can't even go to her." "POLLY:" "The place is in the country and there are no trains on Sunday." "The horse is tired, Polly." "I'm tired." "It's our one day of rest." "But oughtn't we treat folks the way we like to be treated?" "You're giving me my Sunday sermon early today." "I know if my mother was dying...." "A lighter cart would make a wonderful difference to the horse." "Look!" "Here comes butcher Dawes now to lend you his light trap." "[Jerry laughs]" "You're a clever woman." "All right." "Fix me some bread and cheese and I'll get ready." "[Light instrumental music]" "Feel free to tie your horse with the cows." "The meadow belongs to us, not to the estate." "I'd rather set him loose." "It'd be a real treat for him to have a turnout." "Kind to me, kind to the horse...." "Run inside and see your mother." "You're a tough one, Jerry." "How can a person ever repay you?" "JERRY:" "Here we go." "JERRY:" "Here we go." "[Exuberant instrumental music]" "BLACK BEAUTY:" "Grass!" "Not a cobblestone in sight." "I couldn't believe my eyes." "JERRY:" "Now, where's that biscuit?" "BLACK BEAUTY:" "Running made me very happy." "Why shouldn't Jerry be happy too?" "JERRY:" "I want that!" "Give it to me!" "Give it here!" "Right." "Thanks." "BLACK BEAUTY:" "The visit to the country refreshed me." "But I found I couldn't stop thinking of her." "Then as if by magic there she was." "My beautiful Ginger." "Oh, God, she was skin and bones." "What had they done to her?" "She was almost too weak to know who I was." "It's me, Ginger." "It's me." "The brightness was gone from her beautiful eyes." "Her face, once so full of spirit, was now full of suffering." "I tried to comfort her." "I wanted her to know she wasn't alone." "Don't give up, Ginger." "[Melancholy instrumental music]" "Get up!" "CABBY:" "Get on with you." "BLACK BEAUTY:" "My precious friend." "That night, I dreamed of her." "I dreamed of what was." "And I dreamed of what might have been." "[Delicate instrumental music]" "[Horse whinnies in distance]" "BLACK BEAUTY: [Whispers] I'm here." "[Whispers] What is it?" "And then I knew." "Goodbye, my sweet one." "Just be patient." "It's ladies and gents who pay our rent." "JERRY:" "They'll be out anytime now, you'll see." "[Coughs]" "[Coughing worsens]" "Begging your pardon, sir, I was engaged to come round at 9:00." "As it's after midnight, perhaps they wouldn't" "You'll be wanted soon enough." "The party's nearly over." "BLACK BEAUTY:" "We waited for our passengers." "And waited." "People aren't thoughtless just to horses." "They're also cruel to each other." "Bless your heart, old man." "[Coughing continues]" "SHORT GENTLEMAN:" "Good night." "SHORT GENTLEMAN:" "Get a move on!" "SHORT GENTLEMAN:" "It's freezing." "Just in a moment, sir." "Don't be impertinent." "We could've had two more drinks "in a moment."" "[Coughing]" "JERRY: [Hoarsely] Walk on." "[Melancholy instrumental music]" "BLACK BEAUTY:" "Something was the matter." "Jerry always looked after me." "But here was the boy instead." "Harry, I didn't want to trouble them in the house." "How's your dad?" "It's in his lungs, Mr. Crenshaw." "I'm very sorry." "Doctor says he'll tell Mom tonight." "HARRY:" "He says Dad can't drive cabs no more." "Keep your chin up." "CABBY 1:" "Help your mom." "BLACK BEAUTY:" "Never drive a cab again?" "How could that be?" "It was good to be outside." "I wanted to go back to work." "HARRY:" "No, Black." "We're not going to the cab stand." "HARRY:" "We're just stretching your old legs, old Jack." "HARRY:" "Morning, Dinah." "DINAH:" "Morning." "Is your mama home?" "Dolly, what do you think you're doing?" "DOLLY:" "Packing." "We're moving to the country." "Daddy's going to drive coaches." "Dinah says he'll never have to drive a cab ever again." "HARRY: [Shouts] Mom!" "BLACK BEAUTY:" "What would happen now?" "Even though cab work had taken its toll on me I had hoped to spend the rest of my days with Jerry." "Goodbye beautiful Black." "Daddy said to give you a kiss for him." "[Poignant instrumental music]" "BLACK BEAUTY:" "I went to a grain dealer, where Jerry thought I'd be treated fairly." "But what he expected and what was were as different as a kind word is from a whiplash." "[Whip cracks]" "DRIVER:" "Come on!" "[Dramatic instrumental music]" "BLACK BEAUTY:" "For two long years, I pulled the heavy carts until I could not pull anymore." "HORSE DEALER:" "Sixteen guineas for the pair." "Wants you to ride and drive." "Sixteen guineas." "Who'll give me sixteen guineas?" "Anybody out there?" "Sixteen guineas for the pair." "DRIVER:" "It's not worth bothering about them." "There's nothing for them but the butcher's knife." "BLACK BEAUTY:" "I was too weak to care." "Awful." "Was that one a carriage horse, Granddad?" "FARMER:" "He might have been anything." "FARMER:" "He has a finer build than the other horses." "Wouldn't you say, Joe?" "JOE:" "Poor old thing." "JOE:" "Expect we'll have better luck next month at Langley." "BLACK BEAUTY:" "That voice." "It woke me up." "I knew that voice." "It was Joe!" "[Black Beauty neighs frantically]" "[Frantic neighing continues]" "[Poignant instrumental music]" "Black Beauty." "JOE:" "I'm here, Beauty." "JOE:" "I'm here." "You're safe now." "[Hushing]" "BLACK BEAUTY:" "I have now lived in this happy place a whole year." "My strength and spirits are back." "Joe promises me I'll never be sold." "My troubles are over and I am at home." "Often I fancy I'm still in the big pasture at Birtwick Park." "I'm together with my old friends." "And nothing will ever separate us again ever." "[Exuberant instrumental music]" "English subtitles conformed by SOFTITLER" "[Delicate instrumental music]"