Overview
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.
Director and cast
- Richard Donat as Rory MacLean
- Ben Rose-Davis as Willie MacLean
- Jennie Raymond as Nellie MacLean
- Andrew Keilty as John MacLean
- Elliot Page as Maggie MacLean
- Anna Wedlock as Sara MacLean
- Gabriel Hogan as Ned Hall
- Denny Doherty as Charley McGinnis
- Jonathan Langlois-Sadubin as Simon O'Neill
- Joseph Wynne Cast
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