Mischief Poster Daybill Original 1969 Pony Stable Hands Paul Frazer
Mischief Poster Daybill Original 1969 Pony Stable Hands Paul Frazer.Mischief was directed by Ian Shand and co-produced by Ian Shand and Jack Grossman for the production company Children's Film Foundation. The short film ran for 56mins and was produced in the UK in 1969. It was distributed in Australia by The Australian Council For Children's Films And Telvevision. It starred Paul Frazer, Iain Burton, Adrianne Byrne, Michael Newport, Gina Malcolm, Gerald Sim, Colin Gordon, Bill Owen, Frieda Knorr, Charles Rea, Peter Porteous, Deidre Benner and Gerald Williams. The plot was: At a village pony auction a Davey misses out on buying a pony which was purchased by the owner of a pony trekking stable. He gets a job at the stable looking after the pony ‘Mischief’ leading to the jealousy of other stable hands and his eventual wrongful sacking. When another young boy visiting the stable is thrown from the pony onto a quarry ledge, Davey and ‘Mischief’ try to rescue him before blasting commences at the quarry. These posters are exceptionally hard to find due to the limited distribution of the short film.
