About
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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Feb 1, 2005
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Cast
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Richard Donat
Rory MacLean
J
Jennie Raymond
Nellie MacLean
A
Andrew Keilty
John MacLean
E
Elliot Page
Maggie MacLean (as Ellen Philpotts-Page)
G
Gabriel Hogan
Ned Hall
D
Denny Doherty
Charley McGinnis
J
Jonathan Langlois-Sadubin
Simon O'Neill
J
Joseph Wynne
Jimmy O'Neill
C
Carol Sinclair
Mrs. O'Neill
B
Bill McFadden
Ed O'Neill
J
Jeremy Akerman
Mr. Frawley
A
Andrew Bigelow
Ben Frawley
J
John Dunsworth
MacIsaac Smith
R
Rhonda McLean
Miss Harper
J
Joseph Rutten
One Arm Joe
J
Jeremiah Sparks
Trainer
G
Gay Hauser
Nurse
D
David McClelland
Man at Dock
