SO DEAR TO MY HEART -- Harold D. Schuster, dir

©1949
studio: Walt Disney
dir: Harold D. Schuster, Hamilton Luske (cartoon segments)
screenplay: John Tucker Battle, Ken Anderson (cartoon), Marc Davis (cartoon)
based on the novel Midnight and Jeremiah by: Sterling North
cast: Bobby Driscoll, Luana Patten, Beulah Bondi, Raymond Bond, Daniel Haight, Harry Carey, Matt Willis, Walter Soderling, Burl Ives, Spelman B. Collins

Young Jeremiah Kincaid cares for and enters his black lamb, Danny, in the county fair in rural Amrica, 1903.

This is just a fantastic movie. It was a family favorite years ago, and we showed it again last night after a many year absence, and it still keeps the interest of the kids'.

The story moves a long at a great pace, there are just enough songs to keep it light, and of course it has a "feel good" moral to it.

This movie well out-shines "Song of the South," in my opinion ... another Disney movie to which it is often compared.

It's hard to find ... I happen to own it on LaserDisc! ... but it's well worth seeking out -- particularly if you have younger family members.