Already the show's new star, Sonora makes her Atlantic City debut only to be felled by a tragic accident. Himself with Sorona, with whom he has fallen deeply in love. By the time the show arrives in Atlantic City, Marie has taken off for the West Coast, where she hopes to land a Hollywood contract, and Al returns to the fold, reuniting Carver with a long-term contract that brings his show to the Steel Pier in Atlantic City. Carver and with Marie (Kathleen York), the show's current red-headed horse-diving star.Įventually circumstances provide Dr. Leaving Sonora to fend for herself, both with Dr. Unfortunately, father and son have a falling out and Al takes a powder, Al not only teaches Sonora how to leap on a galloping horse, but goes to bat for her with his father. Carver's charismatic son (Michael Schoeffling), pays off by gaining his help and support. A compromise is reached and Sonora remains with the traveling show, but as a manure shoveler. Carver's "Death-Defying Diving Horse Girl Show," the doctor's vision is of Sonora heading back home where she belongs. Of becoming the new star attraction of Dr. Carver (Cliff Robertson), a crusty cowboy of the old school who claims to be wearing duds that originally belonged to his friend, Wild Bill Hickok. Soon after hitting the road, Sonora finds herself in a head-on confrontation with Dr. Specifically, she's determined to become the star of a carnival horse-diving act (an act during which a horse and girl rider plunge 40 feet off a long wooden Sonora Webster (Gabrielle Anwar), a tomboy orphan, runs away from her insensitive aunt's Georgia farm to seek her fortune out in the world. Poignant and altogether refreshing period piece well worth viewing by every family member. Set in and around Depression-era Atlantic City, it's a sweet, Handsomely mounted by director Steve Miner from an on-target screenplay by Matt Williams and Oley Sassone, WILD HEARTS CAN'T BE BROKEN is an exquisite example of an almost forgotten genre: the well-crafted family film.
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