The Second Time Around (film)

The Second Time Around

Directed by	Vincent Sherman
Produced by	Jack Cummings
Written by	Richard Emery Roberts (novel) Oscar Saul Clair Huffaker (as Cecil Dan Hensen)
Starring	Debbie Reynolds Steve Forrest Andy Griffith
Music by	Gerald Fried
Cinematography	Ellis W. Carter
Distributed by	Twentieth Century-Fox
Release dates	December 22, 1961 (1961-12-22)
Running time	99 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

The Second Time Around is a 1961 Western comedy film starring Debbie Reynolds as a widow who relocates her family from 1911 New York to the Arizona Territory. It is based on the novel Star in the West by Richard Emery Roberts.

The film co-stars Andy Griffith and Steve Forrest. It was directed by Vincent Sherman.

Plot

Lu Rogers, recently widowed, leaves her children in New York with her mother-in-law in 1911 and travels west to take a job she's been offered. Upon arriving in Arizona, the job falls through, so farmer Aggie Gates tries her out as a hired hand.

The resourceful Lu succeeds at work and catches the eye of two potential suitors, Dan Jones, a saloon owner, and Pat Collins, a rancher. A crooked sheriff is exposed by Lu, who is shocked by being offered his job. The humiliated sheriff pulls a holdup and kidnaps her.

A posse is formed and comes to Lu's rescue. She receives reward money and uses it to send for her kids. Dan wins her hand, while Pat accepts her badge.

Cast

Debbie Reynolds as Lucretia Rogers
Steve Forrest as Dan Jones
Andy Griffith as Pat Collins
Juliet Prowse as Rena Mitchell
Thelma Ritter as Aggie Gates
Ken Scott as Sheriff Burns
Isobel Elsom as Mrs. Rogers
Rodolfo Acosta as Rodriguez (as Rudolph Acosta)
Timothy Carey as Bonner
Tom Greenway as Deputy Shack
Eleanor Audley as Mrs. Trask
Marie Blake as Mrs. Vera Collins (as Blossom Rock)

External links

The Second Time Around at the Internet Movie Database
The Second Time Around at the TCM Movie Database
The Second Time Around at AllMovie

Films directed by Vincent Sherman

The Return of Doctor X (1939)
Saturday's Children (1940)
The Man Who Talked Too Much (1940)
Flight from Destiny (1941)
Underground (1941)
All Through the Night (1941)
The Hard Way (1943)
Old Acquaintance (1943)
In Our Time (1944)
Mr. Skeffington (1944)
Janie Gets Married (1946)
Nora Prentiss (1947)
The Unfaithful (1947)
Adventures of Don Juan (1948)
The Hasty Heart (1949)
Backfire (1950)
The Damned Don't Cry! (1950)
Harriet Craig (1950)
Goodbye, My Fancy (1951)
Lone Star (1952)
Affair in Trinidad (1952)
The Garment Jungle (1957)
The Young Philadelphians (1959)
Ice Palace (1960)
A Fever in the Blood (1961)
The Second Time Around (1961)
Cervantes (1967)
The Last Hurrah (1977)

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