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Billy Buck (Robert Mitchum) and Alice Tiflin (Myrna Loy), Tom’s mother.

Tom Tiflin (Peter Miles), a ranch boy, is given a small pony by his father (Shepperd Strudwick). Tom asks easy-going hired hand, Billy Buck, to help him raise and train it so that it can be ridden, and the horse becomes the focus of Tom’s life. During a rainstorm, the pony escapes the stable and subsequently develops a fever. Despite Buck’s efforts to nurse the pony, it develops strangles and requires a tracheotomy. Shortly after the procedure, the pony escapes from the farm. Family ties and Tom and Billy’s friendship are tested to the limit when the pony disappears.

John Steinbeck based the screenplay for the film on his 1937 novella of the same name. The film is also notable for the original score composed by Aaron Copland.

Movie trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VZeQ05sg9k

Tom Tiflin (Peter Miles), a ranch boy, is given a small pony by his father (Shepperd Strudwick). Tom asks easy-going hired hand, Billy Buck (Robert Mitchum), to help him raise and train it so that it can be ridden, and the horse becomes the focus of Tom’s life. During a rainstorm, the pony escapes the stable and subsequently develops a fever. Despite Buck’s efforts to nurse the pony, it develops strangles and requires a tracheotomy. Shortly after the procedure, the pony escapes from the farm. Family ties and Tom and Billy’s friendship are tested to the limit when the pony disappears.

John Steinbeck based the screenplay for the film on his 1937 novella of the same name. The film is also notable for the original score composed by Aaron Copland.

Movie trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VZeQ05sg9k

Young Tom Tiflin (Peter Miles) and Billy Buck (Robert Mitchum) in the stable with the Red Pony.

Tom Tiflin, a ranch boy, is given a small pony by his father (Shepperd Strudwick). Tom asks easy-going hired hand, Billy Buck, to help him raise and train it so that it can be ridden, and the horse becomes the focus of Tom’s life. During a rainstorm, the pony escapes the stable and subsequently develops a fever. Despite Buck’s efforts to nurse the pony, it develops strangles and requires a tracheotomy. Shortly after the procedure, the pony escapes from the farm. Family ties and Tom and Billy’s friendship are tested to the limit when the pony disappears.

John Steinbeck based the screenplay for the film on his 1937 novella of the same name. The film is also notable for the original score composed by Aaron Copland.

Movie trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VZeQ05sg9k

Tom Tiflin (Peter Miles) and his grandfather (Louis Calhern).

Tom Tiflin, a ranch boy, is given a small pony by his father (Shepperd Strudwick). Tom asks easy-going hired hand, Billy Buck (Robert Mitchum), to help him raise and train it so that it can be ridden, and the horse becomes the focus of Tom’s life. During a rainstorm, the pony escapes the stable and subsequently develops a fever. Despite Buck’s efforts to nurse the pony, it develops strangles and requires a tracheotomy. Shortly after the procedure, the pony escapes from the farm. Family ties and Tom and Billy’s friendship are tested to the limit when the pony disappears.

John Steinbeck based the screenplay for the film on his 1937 novella of the same name. The film is also notable for the original score composed by Aaron Copland.

Movie trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VZeQ05sg9k

Tom Tiflin (Peter Miles) shows off his new pony to friends.

Tom Tiflin, a ranch boy, is given a small pony by his father (Shepperd Strudwick). Tom asks easy-going hired hand, Billy Buck (Robert Mitchum), to help him raise and train it so that it can be ridden, and the horse becomes the focus of Tom’s life. During a rainstorm, the pony escapes the stable and subsequently develops a fever. Despite Buck’s efforts to nurse the pony, it develops strangles and requires a tracheotomy. Shortly after the procedure, the pony escapes from the farm. Family ties and Tom and Billy’s friendship are tested to the limit when the pony disappears.

John Steinbeck based the screenplay for the film on his 1937 novella of the same name. The film is also notable for the original score composed by Aaron Copland.

Movie trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VZeQ05sg9k