April Love (1957)

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April Love is a musicalized remake of 1944's Home in Indiana. Pat Boone stars as a potential juvenile delinquent who is sent to work on a Kentucky farm. When he meets apple-cheeked local girl Shirley Jones, Boone decides that mending his ways might be an option. Before long, he is devoting himself… More April Love is a musicalized remake of 1944's Home in Indiana. Pat Boone stars as a potential juvenile delinquent who is sent to work on a Kentucky farm. When he meets apple-cheeked local girl Shirley Jones, Boone decides that mending his ways might be an option. Before long, he is devoting himself to the task of training a horse to become a winning trotter. Nominated for an Academy Award, the film's title song proved to be one of Pat Boone's most durable hits. April Love benefits from its actual Lexington, Kentucky locations, lovingly photographed in CinemaScope and Deluxe Color by Wilfred Cline. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

Rating, Runtime: Unrated, 1 hr. 39 min.
Directed By: Henry Levin
Genres: Drama, Romance, Classics

In Theaters: Dec 27, 1957 Wide

Critic Reviews

Emanuel Levy, Variety
Pat Boone plays a "bad" boy sent to a farm for rehab in this pleasant but wholesome musical, in which the title song was Oscar nominated and very popular at the time.

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Cream cheese musical with Pat Boone doing his Elvis lite routine. Innocuous film has a few nice songs, good production values and old pros Nolan and O'Connell in support plus an appealing Shirley Jones singing beautifully. Boone however is just to lightweight to carry a movie and… More
Cream cheese musical with Pat Boone doing his Elvis lite routine. Innocuous film has a few nice songs, good production values and old pros Nolan and O'Connell in support plus an appealing Shirley Jones singing beautifully. Boone however is just to lightweight to carry a movie and so the picture has a vacuum at it's center.