The film was written by David Rook, based on his novel The White Colt, and shot on location in Dartmoor, Devon, England.

[1][2][3] A psychosomatically mute English boy sights a wild white pony on the Dartmoor moors and sets out to tame him.

[5][6] A. H. Weiler of The New York Times wrote: "If it is not a milestone in its genre, its cloying quotient is decidedly low.

As a dissection of the rapport between two youngsters and a couple of wild animals in a largely uncomprehending world, it has enough honesty and genuine sentimentality to move mere grown-ups too.

"[9] The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote that "Richard Sarafian's combination of generally pedestrian images with a quivery, quavery wild-heart-of-Dartmoor sensitivity suggests some uncertainty as to whether the picture is aimed at the pony club set, or their more susceptible mothers and grandmothers.