80 Steps to Jonah (1969)

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
	Wayne Newton	...	Mark Jonah Winters
	Jo Van Fleet	...	Nonna
	Keenan Wynn	...	Barney Glover
	Diana Ewing	...	Tracy
	Mickey Rooney	...	Wilfred Bashford
	Sal Mineo	...	Jerry Taggart
	Slim Pickens	...	Scott
	R.G. Armstrong	...	Mackray
	Brandon Cruz	...	Little Joe
	Erin Moran	...	Kim
	Teddy Quinn	...	Richard
	Michele Tobin	...	Cathy
	Susan Mathews	...	Velma
	Lilly Martens	...	Nina
	Ira Angustain	...	Pepe

Storyline

Nevada police take into custody drifter Mark Jonah, although he claims he was an innocent hitchhiker, after the crash of a stolen car in which hoodlum Jerry Taggart is killed. Mark escapes and, while sleeping in a field two days later, is awakened when an eight-year-old blind girl, Nina, stumbles over him. Nina leads Mark to three other blind children---Kim, Little Joe and Cathy. The youngster's, sensing Mark's gentleness, take him to their summer camp for blind children. There, he meets Tracy, a girl his own age who is also blind. He is mistaken for the camp's new handyman by Tracy's housekeeper, Nonna, who views him with suspicion, and also meets the other children, Richard, Velma and Pepe. The children learn to love Mark, whom they follow everywhere, as their Pied Piper figure. Led by tough Barney Glover, the police finally catch up to Jonah. But a well-known local character, Wilfred Bashford, clears Mark, who returns to Tracy and his new "family." Written by Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>  

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