This fast-paced, rollicking Disney adventure combines fatherly love and corporate survival with exciting horseplay and budding romance. The highjinks begin when harassed New York advertising executive Fred Bolton (Dean Jones) acquires a horse for his painfully shy daughter as part of a hurriedly conceived promotional campaign. With help from an attractive riding instructor (Diane Baker), and his daughter's would-be boyfriend (Kurt Russell), Fred hopes the horse will bring his client fame, save his own job, and just maybe finance his daughter's expensive equestrian habit! AS must-see for every Disney fan and lover of good wholesome old-fashioned fun..|The role of championship rider Helen Bolton is played by Ellen Janov in her only film role.|Based on the book "The Year Of The Horse," by Eric Hatch, the movie was shot mostly on Disney's Gold Oak Ranch, near Newhall, California.|In Germany, the movie was known as "Der Henst Im Grauen Flanell-Anzug."