Trouble Along the Way |  | Director: Michael Curtiz
Actors: John Wayne, Connors, Donna Reed
Studio: Warner Home Video
Category: DVD
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Rating:  13 reviews
Sales Rank: 13777
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 110 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: D114536D
UPC: 085391145363
EAN: 0085391145363
ASIN: B000O599X0
Theatrical Release Date: 1953
Release Date: May 22, 2007
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| • | Silver screen legend John Wayne stars as a former top-notch college football coach who tries to maintain custody of his daughter during a tough divorce while earning back self-respect by coaching a small-town Catholic school's football team. A unusually sentimental role for the Duke, in which he proves his amazing gift for comedy and sentiment. Co-starring Donna Reed ("It's a Wonderful Life"), and |
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Product Description
Silver screen legend John Wayne stars as a former top-notch college football coach who tries to maintain custody of his daughter during a tough divorce while earning back self-respect by coaching a small-town Catholic school's football team. A unusually sentimental role for the Duke in which he proves his amazing gift for comedy and sentiment. Co-starring Donna Reed ("It's a Wonderful Life") and directed by Michael Curtiz ("Casablanca").Running Time: 110 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: COMEDY Rating: NR UPC: 085391145363 Manufacturer No: 114536
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Trouble Along the Way, a John Wayne movie even John Wayne fans have tended to skip, is an intriguingly complicated entertainment that gets more interesting from reel to reel. The premise scarcely sounds like prime Duke material: Former big-time football coach with an ugly divorce behind him and a little daughter to look out for takes a job at a venerable Catholic college in danger of being shut down. The title nudgingly recalls the sentimental classic Going My Way, with school administrator Charles Coburn replacing Barry Fitzgerald in the doddering-but-sly priest role and Wayne as a nonclerical (and non-singing) substitute for Bing Crosby. In addition to the diocesan politics dooming the College of St. Anthony's, the plot is complicated by ex-wife Marie Windsor's vicious efforts to regain custody of daughter Sherry Jackson; that sparks a spiky ambivalence between social worker Donna Reed and disreputable papa Wayne, who pretty much lives out of a bar where he runs his latterday business--as a bookie. The script was the work of future Bob Hope writers Melville Shavelson and Jack Rose, and between them and director Michael Curtiz--nearing the end of his long tenure at Warner Bros.--they scuff up Wayne's heroic image in interesting ways. To turn St. Anthony's into a winning football team overnight, Wayne indulges in some outright larceny and extortion; there's even a sly throwaway joke likening his profit-sharing plan for his co-conspirators to a form of "socialism." Instead of the anticipated big-game climax with the St. Anthony's underdogs victorious, the movie veers toward a finale in which several "happy endings" are put on hold till some point in the future. For his part, Wayne gets to deliver more syncopated dialogue than usual, and seems both refreshed and startled by the experience. --Richard T. Jameson
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 THE DUKE WITHOUT SIX-GUN OR RIFLE January 31, 2010
Kenneth L. Lipshez (Unionville, CT)
For lovers of John Wayne, this movie is an aboslute must-see. Old Duke doesn't carry a six-gun or rifle, wear chaps or ride a horse or stagecoach. He's a football coach, and that suits this sports enthusiast.
Wayne, in Knute Rockne fashion, saves a cash-starved small Catholic school by bringing its football team from pushovers to champions. In the midst of it all, he's a single dad to his precocious 10-year-old football-loving daughter Carol (Sherry Jackson), of whom he tries to retain custody against a boozing, carousing ex-wife.
Love comes in the form of the beautiful Donna Reed, who just happens to be the social worker on the case. Duke melts her heart while his relationship with Carol melts yours.
Charles Coburn is sensational as the elderly priest who hired Duke to revive the university through football.
 trouble along the way June 1, 2009
P. Noel (United States)
You like John Wayne you eill enjoy this very much.
A nice comedy/drama 1953.
The John Wayne you probally missed January 20, 2009
Lance
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
You'll have no trouble enjoying this little gem of a movie. Good story and likeable characters make it a fun night in front of the TV. It is not a movie frequently shown on TV or cable. A frequently overlooked John Wayne goodie. Got it for the John Wayne fans in the family who had not heard of it.
"Trouble Along the Way", an average early John Wayne movie January 21, 2008
Russell A. Becker (Corona, CA USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This movie is about tiny St. Anthony's college,and Father Burke who feels that a winning football team will make the school profitable. They bring in a new coach, Steve Williams, (John Wayne)to do the job. Williams has been banned fro the major conferences and is making ends meet as an oddsmakers, when St. Anthony's calls. He must build a winning team and fast.
Williams comes with his young daughter, whom Williams must prove to a Children's Court officer (Donna Reed) that he's a fit parent. You can guess as the movie goes along, questions come up about the football teams inprovement, and Williams problems with the Court officer. All turns out right in the end with the predictable ending with Wayne and Reed falling in love.
All in all not a bad movie, if you like old movies.
Trouble Along the Way July 3, 2007
Barbara A. Roberts (IL)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I had not seen this John Wayne movie before ordering it but like John
Wayne. It was a good story. Movie is black & white.
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