White Shadow

Sixteen-year-old Jeff Martin is a young man with big problems. His pilot dad is missing after being shot down over Korea, his mom has been confined to a sanitarium, and he is suddenly on his own. The one bright spot is his life is a white pony, left for dead at a horse auction near Los Angeles. Jeff nurses the pony back to health, only to have it stolen by horse thieves. Sheriff's deputies say they'll look into it, but that's not good enough for Jeff, who sets off across the desert on a Cushman motor scooter to recover his stolen horse. Along the way he has to dodge lawmen trying to head him off for his own good and deal with robbers, wild animals, and an injured Indian girl.