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The Small One

1978 · 26 min
Directed by
Don Bluth
Genres
Animation, Family
Starring
Sean Marshall, William Woodson, Olan Soule
Overview
Ordered by his father to sell an old mule called Small One, a Hebrew boy in the ancient Holy Land takes the donkey to the Jerusalem market. Finding no buyers there, the boy is about to give up when he meets a kind man named Joseph, who buys Small One and uses the steed to take his pregnant wife Mary to Bethlehem.

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Directed by
Don Bluth
Genres
Animation, Family
Starring
Sean Marshall, William Woodson, Olan Soule
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    Genres
    animation, family
    Directed by
    Don Bluth
    Written by
    Vance Gerry, Peter Young
    Starring
    Sean Marshall, William Woodson, Olan Soule, Joe Higgins, Gordon Jump, Hal Smith
    Runtime
    26 min
    Country
    United States of America
    Languages
    English

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