Gypsy Colt

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• 1954
• 1 hr 12 mins
• Drama, Family, Action & Adventure

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Lassie comes home (again) but this time as a horse. Eric Knight shouldn't have to had break a sweat writing this "original" with the only difference in the basic plot line (from Lassie Come Home (1943)) being that a horse, rather than a dog, has to make the arduous journey back to its young master (a girl rather than a boy) and a locale change from England to the American West. It begins in a drought-stricken region where Frank (Ward Bond) and Em MacWade (Frances Dee) dread to tell their young daughter, Meg (Donna Corcoran), that her beloved colt Gypsy (Highland Dale) has been sold, for financial reasons, as a potential race horse. The horse breaks away from its new owner twice, and is admonished by Meg each time, before the horse is transported 500 miles away to a race track. But Gypsy escapes again and begins his 500-mile trek back to his young mistress. On his trek back, he has encounters with a group of cowboys, a gang of wild motorcyclists and a young Mexican boy, in addition to the terrain problems. Gypsy one-ups Lassie as he also brings a drought-breaking rain with him when he gets back home.