Debbie Reynolds & Andy Griffith in "The Second Time Around" (1961)

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  • čas přidán 7. 07. 2023
  • In 1911, recently widowed Lucretia 'Lu' Rogers (Debbie Reynolds) wants to go out and earn her own money and find a place of her own for her family, an alternative to finding a suitable replacement husband. So, Lu leaves her two children in New York City with her frosty mother-in-law, Mrs. Rogers (Isobel Elsom), and relocates to Charleyville, Arizona Territory, where she accepts an offer to work for a storekeeper, an old friend of her late husband.
    Upon arrival, Lu learns her benefactor has been killed in a holdup ...and she is without any prospects. But Aggie Gates (Thelma Ritter) feels sorry for this greenhorn self supporting woman from the East and agrees to take this city girl on as a hired ranch hand. Lu's outspoken nature and good looks win her the admiration of both Dan Jones (Steve Forrest), the handsome gambler and owner of the local saloon, and Pat Collins (Andy Griffith), a mother-dominated rancher. Along the way, both men vie for her hand.
    Aggie tries to marry off Lu to Pat, but Pat's mother, Mrs. Vera Collins (Marie Blake as Blossom Rock), discourages the match. When Lu, who is disgusted by the lack of law and order in the town, proves that the dishonest Sheriff Burns (Ken Scott), is in league with gunmen, she gets the women and the law-abiding citizens of Charleyville to recall the Sheriff and elect her as the new Sheriff.
    Burns retaliates by attacking and looting the town and kidnaping Lu. But, Dan, Pat, and the townspeople form a posse, raid the gunmen's hideout, and rescue Lu. The reward money enables Lu to bring her two children to the new state of Arizona. As she throws her arms around Dan, Lu tosses her sheriff's badge to Pat.
    A 1961 American CinemaScope Comedy Western film directed by Vincent Sherman, produced by Jack Cummings, screenplay by Oscar Saul and Clair Huffaker, based on the novel "Star in the West" by Richard Emery Roberts, cinematography by Ellis W. Carter starring Debbie Reynolds, Andy Griffith, Steve Forrest, Juliet Prowse and Thelma Ritter. This story was inspired by Richard Robert's mother. Years before making this, Vincent Sherman had been a contract director at Warner Brothers, where he helmed multiple films with some of the studio's biggest stars, including Bette Davis, Joan Crawford and Anne Sheridan.
    Debbie Reynolds and Thelma Ritter worked well together and they would do so again in the much better "How the West Was Won" (1962). Ritter's character is named 'Aggie' in both movies. Blossom Rock, the actress playing Andy Griffith's smothering mother here, would later achieve TV immortality as the irascible 'Grandma' in ABC's hit 1964 sitcom "The Addams Family." Eleanor Audley, the elegant older woman who leads the townfolk in pleading with Reynolds to run for sheriff, was one of Hollywood's busiest and best known character actresses. She was also known for doing voices for animated Disney movies, as both the wicked stepmother in "Cinderella" (1950) and the evil sorceress Maleficent in "Sleeping Beauty" (1959).
    Debbie Reynolds' character is elected sheriff. Her co-star of this movie, Andy Griffith, played the sheriff of Mayberry in the eponymously named television series "The Andy Griffith Show", which started the year before this movie was released.
    When she made this, Reynolds was dealing with the enormous publicity of being part of an infamous romantic triangle - Debbie, Eddie and Liz. The public at the time seemed endlessly fascinated by every new development in the "storyline" of Eddie Fisher's leaving his marriage (and children) with Reynolds to pursue a hot-and-heavy romance with the newly widowed Elizabeth Taylor. One of the children Fisher walked out on grew up to be Carrie Fisher.
    Although not a note of the song is sung, this sparkling comedy's title is taken from a popular song of the year before. The Oscar nominated Sammy Cahn and James van Heusen tune was written for the 1960 Bing Crosby film High Time, and became a hit for both Frank Sinatra and Tony Bennet. Its melody is heard as incidental music on this film"s soundtrack. This film's plot is similar to the Judy Garland hit "The Harvey Girls" (1946), and major elements of this film's plot were "borrowed" for the comedy western "The Ballad of Josie" (1967), which starred Doris Day, playing a widowed mother trying to make it on her own in the old West, not unlike Reynolds does here. The joke of Reynolds falling face first into a mud puddle right before meeting a potential romantic partner is "borrowed" from the Doris Day musical "Calamity Jane" (1953).
    Well worth seeing and as much different from a typical western as you can find! It's hard not to like this Western romp and Reynolds is at her spunky best showing almost the same stamina she would show later in the marvelous "Unsinkable Molly Brown" (1964). Cute and clever, and more than anything else, there's good clean fun here...along with being unusual, and a fine sense of atmosphere and nuance makes this one of Debbie's best comic vehicles.
  • Krátké a kreslené filmy

Komentáře • 68

  • @lauriedavis400
    @lauriedavis400 Před 2 měsíci +17

    Wow _ANYONE_ would be *SO LUCKY* to have an Aggie in their life! 🕊️💕

  • @homegown1234
    @homegown1234 Před 3 měsíci +25

    My favorite actress was many, but I love Debbie Reynolds by her incredible talents, personality and her spunk which I always been that way too. Love her very much and miss her so much. RIP Debbie.

  • @mariarooney6262
    @mariarooney6262 Před 2 měsíci +9

    Now that was a movie.❤️

  • @pingpong5000
    @pingpong5000 Před 2 měsíci +7

    Nice film, a good bit of fun with a great story and script, with many very good actors, some well-known and so not so well known but all perfect for their roles, films like this used to fill the world's cinemas day after day. Sad to realise at the end of this film they are all no longer with us.

  • @debbiebousquet5677
    @debbiebousquet5677 Před 25 dny +2

    Omgnsuch a good movie. Classic tv movies will nevr dy❤🎉😂 Debbie Reynolds is so funny 🤣

  • @virginiahouse1456
    @virginiahouse1456 Před 3 měsíci +9

    Enjoyed the movie for the 5th time. watch it when it orginally can out and when ever it was rerun in a Theater. Thank you for the memories!

  • @pairotelee
    @pairotelee Před měsícem +2

    I like Debbie Reynolds since the younger days in schools in Hong Kong. She was a wonderful gifted actress. CONGRATULATIONS @ THANK YOU! (from my home ' The City of Angels, Bangkok ')

  • @mariarooney6262
    @mariarooney6262 Před 2 měsíci +14

    Great clean, fun movie. Great actors.❤️

  • @KhrawbokSawkmie-vs8np
    @KhrawbokSawkmie-vs8np Před 3 měsíci +5

    Once upon a time this actress have done very best on her good personality. Little she play on her comedy and had done well in her acting. All who acting on this movie also had done well. Like this movie is called the very best move and a good show in showing like this movie. ❤❤❤.Amen.

  • @nakasekendeethel4148
    @nakasekendeethel4148 Před 23 dny +2

    I cannot stop watching this movie

  • @babloochoudhury8443
    @babloochoudhury8443 Před 10 měsíci +15

    a gem of a movie thnx

    • @DonaldPBorchersOG
      @DonaldPBorchersOG  Před 9 měsíci

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  • @YVO007
    @YVO007 Před 20 dny +1

    Nice grace given before the meal by grandmother, 03:35 blessing her famiily that is and is yet to come.

  • @amirulislam8418
    @amirulislam8418 Před 10 měsíci +13

    A movie worth watching..

    • @DonaldPBorchersOG
      @DonaldPBorchersOG  Před 9 měsíci

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  • @pressureworks
    @pressureworks Před 2 měsíci +5

    Pat was obviously the best person to take on the role of Sheriff, wonder who he could possibly get to be his deputy....?????

  • @yomama8873
    @yomama8873 Před 2 měsíci +6

    Great movie 🤩🤩🤩💖💖

  • @Rawshella
    @Rawshella Před 2 měsíci +3

    This is a GREAT movie!

  • @hellie_el
    @hellie_el Před 10 měsíci +9

    ❤❤❤ thanks for the great notes in the video description.

  • @theresamoller215
    @theresamoller215 Před 21 dnem +1

    My favorite movie!❤

  • @JohnnyCampbell-pd1jr
    @JohnnyCampbell-pd1jr Před 10 měsíci +10

    Good clean movie

    • @DonaldPBorchersOG
      @DonaldPBorchersOG  Před 9 měsíci +1

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    • @FlipDahlenburg
      @FlipDahlenburg Před 2 měsíci

      Well-scoured, too!

  • @milagritosperalta2811
    @milagritosperalta2811 Před 2 měsíci +4

    Debbie was adorable

  • @user-fr6dy2dv4k
    @user-fr6dy2dv4k Před 2 měsíci +7

    When movies relied on actors and not special effects

  • @lauriedavis400
    @lauriedavis400 Před 3 měsíci +6

    @34:07 Save your bullying for someone else! You don’t frighten *_ME!_* -
    She was so tiny & cute & badass! Must be my favorite part bc i have to
    rewatch it over & over before i can move on! 🥳

    • @MrFlyingmonkeypants
      @MrFlyingmonkeypants Před 3 měsíci +1

      DR is fun to watch. Real life, she would have walked out of the store, been thrown in a wagon and never seen again. But, she is fun to watch. 😂

    • @lauriedavis400
      @lauriedavis400 Před 2 měsíci +2

      @@MrFlyingmonkeypantswell yeah _of course_ *IRL.* Guess i should admit that my opinion may be _slightly_ swayed by the fact that *_i_* happen to be 5’ 85lbs. It’s quite satisfying to watch “America’s Sweetheart” *FICTIONALLY STAND UP* to that big jerk! So i don’t know your deal & also not trying to sound bigoted but i really don’t believe that most men could _truly grasp_ where i’m coming from. i mean, how _could_ they? Still, don’t *blame* me for dying to know what that feels like - even if it’s only in a movie!😅🍿 Okay? 🤟🏼🕊️

    • @DonaldPBorchersOG
      @DonaldPBorchersOG  Před 9 dny

      Thanks for sharing. Welcome.

  • @RebeccaRc
    @RebeccaRc Před dnem

    Andy Griffith my favorite

  • @lauriedavis5946
    @lauriedavis5946 Před 5 měsíci +8

    Absolutely *ADORE* the character of Lucretia! i think of her as a BAD ASS with CLASS! Debbie Reynolds is so AWESOME in this movie! But i’ve watched it a lot & over time i realized that _Rena_ aka Juliet Prowse is actually (my) hero of this film. She knows how to shake things up - i like the way she thinks! 💕🤟🏻

    • @DonaldPBorchersOG
      @DonaldPBorchersOG  Před 5 měsíci +3

      Thanks for sharing your thoughts.

    • @FlipDahlenburg
      @FlipDahlenburg Před 2 měsíci +1

      Typical chick thoughts! The facts don't bear you out.

    • @lauriedavis5946
      @lauriedavis5946 Před 2 měsíci

      @@FlipDahlenburg what on earth are you even talking about?!

  • @mandydalton9750
    @mandydalton9750 Před 10 měsíci +5

    Fantastico 😇☺️😘

    • @DonaldPBorchersOG
      @DonaldPBorchersOG  Před 9 měsíci

      Glad you enjoyed. Welcome. I post Westerns here: czcams.com/play/PLk3CReZFhoBfEto_hA9PZWUt-9UXOQ2I4.html

  • @YVO007
    @YVO007 Před 20 dny +1

    I've been privileged to befriend a very small number of wemon who were more than I a fine person with talents on the outside, rough and ready to work hard ranching and on the inside brave and beautiful. In fact I can say as far as morally confident as well-spoken as any they are wemon to be looked up to and admire. Should she had fallen in love with me I'd had to have denied her my affections no less than out of respect for her. I could not meet her standards nor very often work as long as they did. It is not all about the tuff nor at the ready. It takes as much as it gives however until you are dignified doing so most will not even love the land never mind the demand for self-efficiency, routinely practiced, yes joyfully. "Thank God for her I've little known but remain in love with”. Happy to have been any assistance to a good woman as are these. For modern text, I find a woman who is comfortable with her own confidence foremost attractive. “Yes physically wondrous even loveable”.

  • @eliseolopez2790
    @eliseolopez2790 Před 2 měsíci +1

    Jaja the ice cream partler made me laugh

  • @brigidconroy2111
    @brigidconroy2111 Před 22 dny +1

    Too cute Steve Forrest was a handsome dude even if he couldn’t be a fake Jock Ewing Debbie Reynolds was a very accomplished actress❤❤ LOVED that the “plot” showed the strong women who won the right to vote in the wild states often sooner than the populated ones❤

  • @pressureworks
    @pressureworks Před 2 měsíci +3

    Ageless Dan was later involved with a SWAT force and the EM50 project

  • @eliseolopez2790
    @eliseolopez2790 Před 2 měsíci +1

    Gimini cricket theres gold in this movie too ,i was watching the luck of the Irish

  • @anthonyweems2573
    @anthonyweems2573 Před měsícem +2

    My favorite part 32:53

  • @timothykuring3016
    @timothykuring3016 Před 2 měsíci +1

    I never heard of this movie.
    That old woman was on a wagon train with Debby Reynolds in How the West was Won a year later.

  • @mahmooad8798
    @mahmooad8798 Před 10 měsíci +3

    فيديو رأئع جدا شكرا لك 👍👍👍👍

    • @DonaldPBorchersOG
      @DonaldPBorchersOG  Před 9 měsíci +1

      Welcome. I post Westerns here: czcams.com/play/PLk3CReZFhoBfEto_hA9PZWUt-9UXOQ2I4.html

  • @randyoleman424
    @randyoleman424 Před 2 měsíci +1

    Like sent 📤📤📤

  • @james_t_kirk
    @james_t_kirk Před měsícem +2

    *I've lived in Phoenix and Tucson, and otherwise been all over Arizona. And none of this scenery is Arizona - but it clearly is California. Also, take note of the two saguaro cactus seen at **16:22**. Both are Hollywood fakes. But the rolling California hills seen in the background are all too real. Anyway, the ersatz "Arizona" scenery spoils the movie for me.*

  • @rubymangawa3644
    @rubymangawa3644 Před měsícem +1

    Debbie is a girl version of Audie Murphy

  • @harrycallahan8573
    @harrycallahan8573 Před 4 měsíci +4

    Eddie Fisher left her for Elizabeth Taylor?. Fool!

  • @eliseolopez2790
    @eliseolopez2790 Před 2 měsíci

    That actress acted with Debbie and also Elvis

  • @eliseolopez2790
    @eliseolopez2790 Před 2 měsíci +1

    That was just cruel director making Debbie fall into mud

  • @gordonspond8223
    @gordonspond8223 Před 2 měsíci +1

    Ridiculously relevant, given the state of affairs in 2024.

  • @eliseolopez2790
    @eliseolopez2790 Před 2 měsíci +3

    Debbie Reynolds has More value than Marilyn Monroe

  • @AaaA-on1jq
    @AaaA-on1jq Před měsícem

    Consider me Mind blown. They used a kuda mundi instead of a raccoon. Wow...

  • @therealeye175
    @therealeye175 Před 2 měsíci

    God downloaded 66

  • @therealeye175
    @therealeye175 Před 2 měsíci

    Downloaded god kidnapped

  • @democolor42
    @democolor42 Před 14 dny

    She had never been in the farm, she was not able even to take goats in the barn and suddenly becomes a sheriff and starts shooting just like a Jesse James or Audie Murphy. Really who wrote a screen play? Bum on complete nuts? to waste money to make such nonsense, What a BS

  • @hotshotwpg
    @hotshotwpg Před 28 dny

    If the coyote was a chicken hunter, why did they use baby ducks, instead of baby chicks? dumb.