April Love | |
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Directed by | Henry Levin |
Produced by | David Weisbart |
Written by | George Agnew Chamberlain (novel) Winston Miller |
Starring |
Pat Boone Shirley Jones Dolores Michaels |
Music by |
Sammy Fain Alfred Newman |
Cinematography | Wilfred M. Cline |
Edited by | William B. Murphy |
Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
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Running time
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97 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $1,425,000 |
Box office | $4 million (US rentals) |
April Love is an American musical directed by Henry Levin and produced by David Weisbart, based on the novel Phantom Filly by George Agnew Chamberlain (New York, 1941). Photographed in CinemaScope and DeLuxe Color by Wilfred M. Cline, it was the fourth most popular movie of 1957 and stars Pat Boone, Shirley Jones, Arthur O'Connell, Dolores Michaels, Matt Crowley, Jeanette Nolan and Bradford Jackson.
The title song, sung by Boone, went to number one on the Billboard Chart in December 1957 and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song.
Nick Conover (Pat Boone), a Chicago youth, is moving to the Kentucky horse farm of his Aunt Henrietta Bruce (Jeanette Nolan) and Uncle Jed Bruce (Arthur O'Connell), neither of whom has he seen since he was a child. This move, suggested by Aunt Henrietta, is part of Nick’s parole condition after being convicted for joyriding in a stolen vehicle with his friends. The judge agreed to this condition as it would get Nick away from those influences which are the cause of his criminal problems. However, Uncle Jed did not and does not want Nick in his home, and is openly hostile toward him upon his arrival. No one else in the area knows why Nick has moved here besides the local sheriff.