Misty [DVD]

Heartwarming, fun, engaging and exciting!I grew up going to these wonderful islands off the coast of Virginia. Magical places they are! This story brings that out. The book Misty of Chincoteague is wonderful, it was written many years ago, but still holds up over the test of time. However, so does this wonderful movie. The story is just told in a different medium. Just don't judge to harshly if the movie is not done exactly how the book was written.Basically, two local island children, a brother and sister, set their eyes on a pony that runs wild on an adjacent barrier island (Assateague), from where they live(Chincoteague). The wild pony is called the Phantom and has never been captured and tamed. The two siblings instantly fall in love and have to have her. They create a plan to raise enough money on their own to purchase the pony, at the annual Pony Penning event on Chincoteague. The story evolves and starts to get it's depth around how they go about doing this, before they tell their plan to their grandparents, who they live with on the island.Shot on the Eastern Shore of Virginia, most of it onsite at Chincoteague and Assateague Islands, in the early 1960's. the movie puts you there and struggling with the characters as they go about earning their money and starting on their dream to buy their pony.This is a wonderful story for the entire family and shares simple values and great scenery. Well worth a buy for your collection, or a present for someone else.

This is a wonderful classic story brought to screen that does not disappoint horse-lovers young and old.I kept my fingers crossed that the audio and video quality would be good and that the widescreen description was NOT letterbox. I was not disappointed! The seashore and island scenery is beautiful in the original widescreen production and all other qualities are excellent.I was a 10-year-old, horse-loving girl when the movie was first released and remember my mom taking me to see it. I haven't seen it since then and fell in love with the characters and horses all over again.

My middle school students really enjoyed this story. We read it together as a "shared read" and watched the movie version. We did a comparison study and critique of both the story and the movie. We also did a book vrs. movie debate. This book opened up many learning opportunities for the class from researching the author and the story online, to writing letters requesting information from the museum on Chincoteague, and pony penning day accommodations. Students are beginning to bring in other Marguerite Henry books from the library. Who would have thought that this little book would cause such enthusiasm in middle school.

We have a beach house near Assateague and I've always wanted to see this movie. Won't be heading down anytime soon due to the virus, but just watching the movie made me feel like I was there again. It left me with a good feeling inside and that is so needed now.

Excellent vintage film! We visited Chincoteague Island with my daughter when she was 6, we were eager to see the film. The film style obviously does not compare to today's blockbusters, but this still remains as the go to for our daughter and her friends. The love the story line and all of the characters. If you are thinking about this one, don't overthink it, I bet your kiddos and family would love it!

We love this movie as a family. It has great characters and is gentle enough for all the kids to watch for a movie night, or when one is feeling sick. I will say that reading the book first does make the ending of this movie a little disappointing, but books are always better than movies we find. Overall, we love this movie and have watched it many times already!

This was a nice little film that I thought maybe the grandkids would enjoy. They're not jaded by the hype, rude humor and violence in today's fare, but they do enjoy, at ages 8, 6 and 4, a good plot. This film only kept their attention for about 15 to 20 minutes. The story is just a little too unbelievable and the characters, an orphaned boy and girl, a little too-good-to-be true; a little too noble and obedient with never a mistake 100% of the time, ALL the time. And so failed to captivate them. The drama felt "made up", I presume even to the kids, young as they are. Too bad. It really was a nice, clean and decent little film.

Great video, I do wish it was CC ( closed captioned as I have 3 deaf grandchildren so they could understand the movie