Friendship's Field

This is one of the Feature Films for Families, which are usually worth watching with your family. The setting is a sugar beet farm in Idaho. The farmer has three daughters, who are expected to hoe sugar beets upon reaching the age of twelve if they want any help with financing their college education. The youngest daughter, Ira, doesn't have to hoe beets yet, and she can run around doing what she wants. The farmer hires transient Mexican farm laborers to hoe sugar beets too. The girl makes friends with a young transient boy. It seems some teenage boys from town pick on the transient Mexicans. One rich boy in particular has a Buick convertible. Ira tells this story to her own daughter after she has grown up.