My Friend Flicka (film)

My Friend Flicka
Directed by	Harold D. Schuster
Screenplay by	Lillie Hayward Francis Edward Faragoh (adaptation)
Based on	My Friend Flicka 1941 novel by Mary O'Hara
Produced by	Ralph Dietrich
Starring	Roddy McDowall Preston Foster Rita Johnson
Cinematography	Dewey Wrigley
Edited by	Robert Fritch
Music by	Alfred Newman
Color process	Technicolor
Production company	20th Century-Fox
Distributed by	20th Century-Fox
Release date	May 26, 1943 (1943-05-26)
Running time	89 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Box office	$1.6 million (US rentals)[1] or $2.4 million[2]

My Friend Flicka is a 1943 American Western film about a young boy, played by Roddy McDowall, who is given a young horse to raise. It is based on Mary O'Hara's popular 1941 children's novel of the same name. Thunderhead, Son of Flicka, released on March 15, 1945, was the sequel to My Friend Flicka.