April Love (film)

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 OConnell, Dolores Michaels, Matt Crowley, Jeanette Nolan and Bradford Jackson.

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 OConnell, neither of whom has he seen since he was a child. This move, suggested by Aunt Henrietta, is part of Nicks 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.Nick later learns that much of Uncle Jeds attitude is not against him, but rather against life ever since their only son, Jed Bruce Jr., was killed in the Korean War. Since then, Uncle Jed, who used to raise, train, and race horses for harness racing, has retreated from life and let the farm run down. He has kept only one horse, a spirited and largely unmanageable stallion named Tugfire, as he was Jed Jr.s favorite. Nick learns how unmanageable Tugfire is when Uncle Jed lets him get into the corral alone with Tugfire, who charges him. Uncle Jeds philosophy is that it was better for Nick to see rather than be told. This incident and others show that Nick is not drawn to or knows anything about horses. ........

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