Academy Awards, USA 1958
| Nominee Oscar | Best Music, Original Song Sammy Fain (music) Paul Francis Webster (lyrics) For the song "April Love" |
Twentieth Century-Fox Film
Directed by Henry Levin
My rating: 2 stars out of 4
IMDb Wikipedia
(Blu-ray, Twilight Time)
City boy Pat Boone is sent to live with relatives on a Kentucky horse ranch as part of his probation for stealing a car. He is warmly welcomed by his aunt but shunned by his older uncle. The farmstead has fallen into disrepair after many years of neglect following the death of their son in Korea. Boone, a gearhead, fixes up a delapidated car and races it around the old horse track, spooking the only remaining horse on the farm. He saves the horse from nearby woods, impressing his uncle who thinks he can train Boone to be a horse racer. Meanwhile, Boone befriends next door neighbor Shirley Jones and her sister. Jones is tomboy and falls for Boone, but he falls for her more sophisticated sister who drives a sports car. In the end, though, he finds out that life is more than sports cars. Mundane musical with a fair share of sexual double entendres belieng the squeak clean image of Boone and Jones. Beautiful widescreen photography by Wilfrid Cline and lush soundtrack featuring the hit title song.
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