“A Diamond in the Rough”
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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Cast
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Richard Donat
Rory MacLean
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Ben Rose-Davis
Willie MacLean
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Jennie Raymond
Nellie MacLean
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Chapelwaite
Andrew Keilty
John MacLean
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Elliot Page
Maggie MacLean (as Ellen Philpotts-Page)
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The Umbrella Academy
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Anna Wedlock
Sara MacLean
Gabriel Hogan
Ned Hall
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Heartland
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Denny Doherty
Charley McGinnis
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Carol Sinclair
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Eric Till Director · Heather Conkie Writer Joyce Barkhouse Author
First release December 14, 1997 · Produced in Canada
Production
CBC
Production
Canada
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Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English
Release dates
Canada · December 14, 1997
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No release date listed for United States.
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