The Red Pony (1949)

Director: Lewis Milestone
Cast: Beau Bridges, Louis Calhern, Margaret Hamilton, Melinda Byron, Myrna Loy, Peter Miles, Robert Mitchum, Shepperd Strudwick

Synopsis:

Peter Miles stars as Tom Tiflin, the little boy at the heart of this John Steinbeck story set in Salinas Valley. With his incompatible parents — the city-loving Fred and country-happy Alice — constantly bickering, Tom looks to cowboy Billy Buck for companionship and paternal love.