Fine family film (well, telemovie in the US, released theatrically elsewhere) by Disney shot in England about the adventures of a riding school. There's two Americans there - Tommy Kirk and Annette Funicello, neither of whom look entirely comfortable on a horse, but who do bring early 60s Disney teen star power.
Janet Munro normally places nice girls, at least in the films I've seen, so it's a bit of a jolt to see her as the harsh teacher of the group. She's actually more of the star of the film than Funicello and Kirk - she and John Fraser, who plays an Australian, and does quite a decent job. The guts of the story involves their bickering romance - it's very chaste.
The movie actually would have been better had Funicello and Kirk been given something to do - they're just in it.
There's plenty of horse riding and dressage if you're in to that, which I'm not. The climax involves the students joining in on a fox hunt - that's not very politically correct! They're all off to kill foxes!
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