The Second Time Around | |
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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 |
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Running time
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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.
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.