The Sad Horse (1959) David Ladd, Chill Wills, Patrice Wymore, Rex Reason

While his widowed father goes away on a honeymoon with his new bride, a polio-stricken boy and his dog stay at his grandfather's horse farm, receiving a visit from a woman and her thoroughbred, which hasn't been the same since the disappearance of his steady canine companion at their stable. With Gregg Palmer, Eve Brent, Leslie Bradley, William Yip, Dave DePaul. Music by Paul Sawtell, Bert Shefter, directed by James B. Clark, story by Zoe Akins, who won a Pulitzer prize for the play "The Old Maid" (1935, later a 1939 film with Bette Davis) and was the great-aunt of actress Laurie Metcalf. Sorry that this is not a CinemaScope print.