Bush Christmas (1947)

Cast

Cast overview:
	Chips Rafferty	...	Long Bill
	John Fernside	...	Jim
	Helen Grieve	...	Helen Thompson
	Nicky Yardley	...	Snow Thompson
	Stan Tolhurst	...	Blue Kennedy
	Pat Penny	...	Henry Thompson - Father
	Thelma Grigg	...	Mrs. Thompson - Mother
	Morris Unicomb	...	John Thompson
	Michael Yardley	...	Michael Thompson
	Neza Saunders	...	Neza
	John McCallum	...	Narrator (voice)

Storyline

In a small town in Australia, five children riding their horses from school take a forbidden path and meet two strangers, who give them money and make them promise not to tell anyone about them. The two men learn about Lucy. She's a mare belonging to Mr. Thompson, a sheep farmer and the father of three of the children: Helen (the oldest), John, and six-year-old Snow (so named for the color of his hair). The other two are Michael, an English boy staying with the Thompsons, and Neza, an Australian black who is the son of one of Mr. Thompson's stock men. The two men (a third one joins them later) prove to be horse thieves, and when Lucy and her foal turn up missing the next morning, the children know it must have been them. Later, the children tell Mrs. Thompson they're going camping. But their real plan is to find the thieves and get Lucy and the foal back. Written by J. Spurlin  

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