Misty (20th Century-Fox) is as long on sentiment as most horse pictures, but mercifully shorter on plotit may be the first children's film made completely without benefit of villainy. The setting is the tiny island of Chincoteague, off the coast of Virginia. Near by is another island, Assateague, where herds of wild ponies live. Each year the Chincoteague volunteer firemen round up the ponies, swim them to their island and sell the foals. Paul Beebe (David Ladd). a spratling who lives on Chincoteague with his sister Maureen (Pam Smith) and a couple of story book grandparents (Arthur O'Connell and Anne Seymour),...
Cinema: If Wishes Were Ponies
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