The movie "Hidalgo" is not "based on a true story"...

[Stop_the_War]

Apparently the guy who claimed to have done those things was a big fraud:
http://www.latimes.com/features/outdoors/la-os-hidalgo17feb17,0,571685.story?coll=la-headlines-outdoors

[Jack_DeLeon]

1. Ofcourse its based on a true story...

The real guy was male, like he was in the movie.

Thats about all the facts you need for any movie to claim its "based on a true story."

The guy probably liked horses too.

ROFL.

[jdj]

2. I can't bear to watch movies like that.

I feel for the horses, they look like they are being run to death. And the actors who aren't seasoned riders are so inattentive sometimes to what is going on with the horse and the bit. It drives me crazy.

[Mabus]

3. An off topic mini-rant

So, ordinary people (like bloggers) looking for answers on the internet have no credibility why? Time and time again, the MSM is being scooped by the bloggers and their quest for truth. Yet, when it comes to Gannon, Williams, etc., we're off base? WTF?

"For the few thousand riders worldwide who coax their mounts across hundreds of miles at a stretch, casting Hopkins as a real-life endurance hero is a slap to a centuries-old sport that requires great fortitude and fitness. When word of the film began to spread on the Internet last spring, skepticism about his far-flung — and -fetched — adventures turned quickly to incredulity and ultimately to outrage.

In the end, a scattering of experts, from museum curators and history professors to Old West and Native American scholars, joined the quest to validate claims that Hopkins made in magazine articles and an unpublished 1930s memoir that reads like "Pecos Bill Meets the Arabian Nights." As Disney charged ahead with its "true story" marketing and merchandising spin, the research renegades, led by the co-founders of the Long Riders' Guild, reached a unanimous verdict: all lies."