New Hidalgo Trailer!
Source: Touchstone Pictures
Wednesday, January 14, 2004

A new trailer worth checking out has made its way online tonight.

Touchstone Pictures has released the second full trailer for Hidalgo, opening March 5 and featuring "The Lord of the Rings" star Viggo Mortensen.

The film is about the Ocean of Fire, a 3,000 mile survival race across the
Arabian Desert, which was a challenge restricted to the finest Arabian
horses ever bred, the purest and noblest lines, owned by the greatest royal
families. In 1890, a wealthy Sheik invited an American and his horse to
enter the race for the first time. Frank T. Hopkins (Mortensen) was a
cowboy and dispatch rider for the US cavalry who had once been billed as
the greatest rider the West had ever known. The Sheik (Omar Sharif) would
put his claim to the test, pitting the American cowboy and his mustang,
Hidalgo, against the world's greatest Arabian horses and Bedouin riders -
some of whom were determined to prevent the foreigner from finishing the
race. For Frank, the Ocean of Fire becomes not only a matter of pride and
honor, but a race for his very survival as he and his horse, Hidalgo,
attempt the impossible.

[interesting side note - some of the music used in the trailer is from the
PotC soundtrack]