Pepe (1960) on Netflix
Pepe is a hired hand on a ranch, where the white stallion is family to him. When a boozing Hollywood director buys the horse, Pepe sets off to get it back.
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Plot summary
A white stallion lives on the ranch where Pepe works as a hired hand, and Pepe looks on the animal as family. The horse belongs to the man Pepe works for. A boozing Hollywood director buys the stallion, so Pepe leaves for Hollywood to bring it home. There he crosses paths with film stars playing themselves, and with American novelties such as doors that open automatically. He meets Suzie Murphy, an actress whose luck has run out.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Pepe (1960)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- As of 2023, Pepe holds the record for the film with the most Academy Award nominations without a single nomination in the Picture, Director, Acting or Screenplay categories.
- With a writers' strike on during production, Jimmy Durante and Cantinflas had to ad-lib their scene together; director George Sidney said it came out pretty funny and the studio assumed writers had been hired on the black market.
- Judy Garland's work in the film was her first since A Star is Born in 1954, and she was set for an onscreen appearance, but she was still recovering from illness so the producers limited her to a song.
