Details

Release year: 1976

Storyline

Three young chldren set about rescuing unwanted pit ponies that are due to be sent to a slaughter house.

Top credits

Directors

Charles Jarrott

Writers

Cast

Alastair Sim — Lord Harrogate
Peter Barkworth — Richard Sandman
Maurice Colbourne — Luke Armstrong
Susan Tebbs — Violet Armstrong

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Did you know

• This was Alastair Sim's final film before his death on August 19, 1976 at the age of 75.

• The soundtrack for this movie was performed by the Grimethorpe Colliery Brass Band, active since 1917. The band also performed on the soundtrack for the 1996 movie Brassed Off (1996) which dealt with the closure of coal pits in Yorkshire.

• Due to Disney's completed acquisitions of other film industries and further release date changes for future films, this marks one of the last times more than one Disney film has been theatrically released on the same day, with this film releasing on the same day as the Disney animated feature film, The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (1977).