Fiercely determined to do the impossible, Sonora sets out to prove that a dream worth having is a dream worth fighting for. Tragedy strikes when Sonora hits the water with her eyes open, causing blindness. On the way there, in a tenderly shot scene, the elder Carver stops along the roadside to rest under a shady tree, and observing the gentle blowing away of a dandelion, he dies.Īl steps in to fill his father’s shoes and later publicly proposes marriage to Sonora as she climbs the tower platform. Al remains devoted to Sonora, who becomes a popular attraction, writing her letters which the senior Carver secretly burns.Īl eventually returns to the show and effects a reconciliation with his pop, telling him he has negotiated a contract with Atlantic City’s Steel Pier amusement pier. Sonora gets her chance when Marie dislocates a shoulder but has to go it alone when a long-standing rift between father and son drives Al away. Sonora manages to capture the heart of Carver’s wayward son, Al, who helps train Sonora to earn a place in the act.

However, the show’s owner is impressed with Sonora’s spunk and so hires her as a stable hand. Carver’s traveling stunt show already has a diving horse girl, Marie. Only Sonora’s impetuous nature doesn’t land her the job. Suspended from school, with the prospect of becoming a ward of the state looming on the horizon, Sonora runs away from her aunt to answer a newspaper advertisement for a diving horse girl, a fearless female brave enough to leap from a tower platform 40-feet high, astride a gallant horse, and plunge into a tank of water. For 16-year-old Sonora Webster, those “dare to live your dream” desires were her one-way ticket away from obscurity and the colorless existence of life in rural Georgia circa 1932. WILD HEARTS CAN’T BE BROKEN is the true inspirational story of Sonora Webster, stunt rider at Atlantic City’s Steel Pier amusement pier, and a wonderful testimony to the determination of the human spirit.ĭaydreams of love, adventure and stardom were the fantasies of many young girls growing up during the Great Depression.

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