Wild Horses

Mitch (Keith Aberdein) moves to Tongariro National Park to help wrangle wild horses threatening ecology and traffic. He meets Sara, who shares an obsession for a fabled silver horse. They clash with rangers and deer recovery guns-for-hire (Bruno Lawrence is the black-clad villain) determined to eradicate the horses, and a showdown on the Desert Plateau ensues. In the notoriously fraught production a stable of Kiwi acting legends perform a melange of western and freedom-on-the-range genre turns (with the conservationists oddly set up as the bad guys).

I couldn’t make head or tail of what the story was. And I shot the bloody thing.

– Director Derek Morton in Onfilm magazine, December 1985

Key Cast & Crew

Keith Aberdein

As: Mitch

Derek Morton

Director

John Barnett

Producer

Kevin O'Sullivan

Writer

Kathryn Rawlings

As: Mary

Robin Gibbes

As: Sara