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9.5mm film frames, showing variable density optical soundtrack
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T.9771 (8 reel 9.5mm sound release by Pathéscope February 1957)
"TUCSON" Drama USA 27Apr1949 --------- Dir: William Claxton Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation 64mins UK Cert "U" Produced by: Sol M. Wortzel Productions (Approx 64mins B/W on 9.5mm) Distributed in 1949 in the UK by: 20th Century Fox Film Co Ltd. Assistant Director: Paul Wortzel (cut to 62mins) Written by: Arnld Belgard Cinematography by: Benjamin H. Kline Editing by: Frank A. Baldridge Art Director: Eddie Imazu Music by: Darrell Calker Sound Department: Frank McWhorter
Cast: Jimmy Lydon ............ Andy Bryant Penny Edwards .......... Laurie Sherman Deanna Wayne ........... Jennifer Johnson Charles Russell ........ Gregg Johnson Joe Sawyer ............. Tod Bryant Walter Sands ........... George Reeves Lyn Wilde .........,,,.. Gertie Peck Marcia Mae Jones ....... Polly Johnson John Ridgely ........... Ben Grandon Rhodes ......... Dean Sherman Gil Stratton ........... Jerry Twill Harry Lauter ........... George Reeves Jr. The Cass County Boys ... Musical Ensemble (as Cass County Trio) Walden Boyle ........... Prof. Carter (uncredited) Paul E. Burns .......... Sharpe (uncredited) Bert Dodson ............ Member of Cass County Trio (uncredited) Richard Dumas .......... Fraternity Brother (uncredited) Ann Duncan ............. Student (uncredited) Bryon Foulger .......... Elkins (uncredited) Mary Gordon ............ Housemother (uncredited) Hal Hackett ............ Vigilante (uncredited) Fred S. Martin ......... Member of Cass County Trio (uncredited) Roger McGee ............ Student (uncredited) Jerry Scroggins ........ Member of Cass County Trio (uncredited)
Andy Bryant, carefree student at the Arizona University in Tucson, causes a chemistry class accident which blinds fellow scholar Gregg Johnson. Andy reforms to help the victim through examinations and, to support a friend threatened by debt collectors, sells his horse which was to have been entered in a race. His father, who has made a $20,000 bet on the event, retrieves the animal and Andy goes on to win the contest.
Pathéscope Gazette magazine Feb/March 1957 (film released on 9.5mm sound as 8 reels)
Tucson - Cinema Front-of-house photo - courtesy Maurice Trace
Tucson - filming on location
Tucson - Fund raising by the students at Arizona University. Jimmy Lydon is behind bars in the middle (Cinema Front-of-house photo - courtesy Maurice Trace)
Notes: 1. Songs include "Nobody's Lost On The Lonesome Road" and "Ringing The New Year In" (both written by I B Kornblum & L Wolf-Gilbert and performed by The Cass County Trio). 2. The big race was filmed at the Rillito Park track in Tucson.
3. Pathéscope made only nine prints of this film. The opening 35mm credit: "Sol M Wurtzel Presents", has been replaced with "Pathéscope Presents". Otherwise the 9.5mm print appears unchanged. 4. After this movie, Penny Edwards became the leading lady in six Roy Rogers' westerns when the usual heroine Dale Evans (alias Mrs Rogers) was pregnant. Dale approved the casting as both women shared strong religious beliefs.
5. Marcia Mae James had been a child star. When only six months old she appeared in "Mannequin" (1926) and later was on screen with Shirley Temple in a couple of features. Marcia was dominated by a persistant "stage-mother" (actress Freeda Jones), but, like many others, her career slowed down as she grew older.
6. Jimmy Lydon also appeared as James Lydon.
7. Reviewed by Maurice Trace in the Group 9.5 magazine number 146 Summer 2011.
(Extra Info gratefully added from film historian 'extraordinaire' - Maurice Trace)
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