Rex

Rex, also known as Rex the Wonder Horse and King of the Wild Horses (born 1916 or 1917) was a 16 hands (64 inches, 163 cm) Morgan stallion who starred in films and film serials in the 1920s and 1930s. His trainer was Jack "Swede" Lindell, who found him in a boys' school in Golden, Colorado. He found that Rex had the unusual behaviour of trying to bite a whip when it was cracked. Lindell encouraged this and would often stand behind the camera to get a dramatic shot on film. Lindell never left Rex alone on set unless the horse was locked in his own trailer. In one scene from the 1927 silent film No Man's Law, Rex protects the modesty of a young woman (Barbara Kent) swimming in the nude from a pair of rowdy villains. Chasing one around in circles, rearing up and bucking like a wild mustang, until he finally runs him off of a cliff, he sneaks up behind the other and nudges him with his nose over the ledge and into the watering hole. He then prods the now-clothed young woman back to her father. Sound films were obviously not a problem for Rex, who continued to star in features and serials. By now Rex was a full-fledged... ()