“With great power comes great responsibility!” Eventually, after seeing how good she is with horses (she had horses on her aunt’s country farm), Doc hires her as a stablehand. Unwilling to take no for an answer, Sonora keeps trying to persuade Doc to hire her. She comes across an ad in the paper for a Doc Carver at the local county fair looking to hire horse divers.Īlthough having no experience whatsoever, Sonora heads to the county fair, finds Doc Carver, and tells him how she is going to be his next diving girl! Doc Carver, played by Cliff Robertson, tells her that she’s too young for the position. Sonora, knowing that the time is right, instead decides to run away from home and follow her dreams. Unfortunately, her aunt is unable to keep up with expenses and tells Sonora that she will have to go to an orphanage now. Even if it means dealing with bad hair days! She has dreams of becoming famous one day and will do anything she can to achieve that. She is in her late teens and lives with her strict aunt in the countryside. The film takes place during the Great Depression where we are introduced to our main character, Sonora Webster, played by Gabrielle Anwar.
Did it break my heart? Read on to find out! I personally hadn’t heard of this film at all until I decided to watch it for this blog. Carver was still alive at the time to see the film (she lived a very long life dying in 2003 at the age of 99). 30 years later, Disney released a film based on the memoir entitled Wild Hearts Can’t Be Broken. In 1961, the horse diver, Sonora Webster Carver, wrote a memoir about her life entitled A Girl and Five Brave Horses. (If this is your first time on this blog, I ask you to read my About page first! You can find a link to it at the top left-hand corner of this blog.
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