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1958 film by Herschel Daugherty

The Light in the Forest is a 1958 American Westernhistorical fictiondrama film based on a novel of the same name first published in 1953 by American author Conrad Richter.

The film was produced by Walt Disney Productions and stars Fess Parker, Joanne Dru, James MacArthur and Wendell Corey. Though it is a work of fiction and primarily features fictional characters, the novel incorporates several real people and facts from American history.

Plot

In 1764 Pennsylvania, a young white boy raised by Native Americans and given the name True-son, is forced to return to white society following the signing of a peace treaty.

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True-son (whose birth name was Johnny) not wanting to leave his adoptive Indian family, tries to kill himself by eating a poisonous plant on the march back to his white family. Del (Fess Parker) stops him.

True-son's Indian cousin joins him on the way to bring him gifts and messages from his In