Pit Pony
“A Diamond in the Rough”
DramaFamilyHistory
Glace Bay, Nova Scotia Canada, 1901. Willie MacLean is a 10-year-old boy with a love for horses and liking to school to cape the difficult times his family has. Willie's stern, but benevolent father is a coal miner in a local mine along with his older brother John. But when Willie's father is injured and John is killed in an accident at the mine, Willie is forced to step into his brother's shoes to support his older sister Nelle, and two younger sisters until their father recovers. Willie soon finds work at the mine lonely (aka: the pit) and unfriendly in which he forms a bond with a pit pony horse in order to make it though each day.
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Details
- Directed by
- Eric Till
- Released
- 14 Dec 1997
- Status
- Released
- Language
- English
- Studio
- CBC
- Votes
- 3 on TMDB
Where to watch (US)
Philo
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Cast
Richard DonatRory MacLean- BBen Rose-DavisWillie MacLean
Jennie RaymondNellie MacLean- AAndrew KeiltyJohn MacLean
Elliot PageMaggie MacLean (as Ellen Philpotts-Page)- AAnna WedlockSara MacLean
Gabriel HoganNed Hall
Denny DohertyCharley McGinnis- JJonathan Langlois-SadubinSimon O'Neill
- JJoseph WynneJimmy O'Neill
- CCarol SinclairMrs. O'Neill
Bill McFaddenEd O'Neill
Jeremy AkermanMr. Frawley
Andrew BigelowBen Frawley
