The Second Time Around

1961

Action / Comedy / Romance / Western

4
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 62%
IMDb Rating 6.5/10 10 996 996

widow arizona

Director

Vincent Sherman Photo
Vincent Sherman

Top cast

Timothy Carey Photo
Timothy Carey as Bonner
Thelma Ritter Photo
Thelma Ritter as Aggie Gates
George Bruggeman Photo
George Bruggeman as Townsman
Evadne Baker Photo
Evadne Baker as Girl
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906.88 MB
1280*538
English 2.0
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23.976 fps
1 hr 38 min
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1.64 GB
1904*800
English 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
1 hr 38 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by weezeralfalfa 8 / 10

NYC lady becomes Arizona ranchhand and sheriff. Fun!

Reviewed by ldeangelis-75708 6 / 10

A Fun but Flawed Movie

I'm willing to bet the movie "The Ballad of Josie" was inspired by this one, and it's yet another case of the first being the best.This was a fun film, with Debbie Reynolds as a widow from the east who heads west (in the last days of that distinction, as it's 1912) to try and make a better life for herself and her two young children. She has quite a time (and a lot of hilarious moments) working as a ranch hand for Thelma Ritter, while attracting the attention of two very different men: saloon/gambling house owner Steve Forrest, a charming "bad boy" and ranch owner Andy Griffith, a "nice guy", though a bit too attached to his domineering mother (Blossom Rock, better known as "Mama," on "The Addams Family" and the sister of Jeanette MacDonald).Debbie's also the only one in town brave enough to stand up to the corrupt sheriff (Ken Scott), a bit hard to believe with feisty Thelma around, and soon there's a petition circulated to oust him from his job. And guess who gets it???That's where the flaws come in. While it's NOT TRUE that women couldn't sign petitions without the vote, that doesn't mean they'd want a woman as sheriff, unless she's lived out west all her life and had the right skills to qualify her, which Debbie did NOT. She proves this all too, soon, by using her badge to get the saloon shut down and Steve thrown in jail, out of spite for the way he tricked her into panning for gold so he could attempt to seduce her. Then, she gets kidnapped by the ousted sheriff, and that's where the silly brawls come in, as no comedy western can do without them, of course not!That's what bugged me, there was more than one brawl incident, where windows are smashed, chairs are broken, tables tossed over, lots of property damage done, etc. Maybe some people find that entertaining, but most of the time it's just ANNOYING to me.Like I said, fun but flawed.
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