The Light in the Forest (1958)

Directors

Herschel Daugherty

Cast

Fess Parker, Wendell Corey, Joanne Dru, James MacArthur

The story

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. 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 stops him.

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