Trouble Along the Way (1953) (MOD)

Trouble Along the Way (1953) (MOD)According to new coach Steve Williams, his football team "couldn't whip Vassar at tiddlywinks." Clearly, he must recruit a new team fast! John Wayne tackles the role of Williams, a big galoot of a coach with a bigger heart when it comes to his young daughter (Sherry Jackson). Williams has been banned from the major conferences and is making ends meet as an oddsmaker. Then tiny St. Anthony's College calls. For St. Anthony's and its likable Father Burke

based on Margaret Mayo's 1907 play

Best Actor Peter Finch is Beale

movie newcomer Ethel Waters debuting Am I Blue

The setting is as riveting as the action: Berlin Express was the first American movie filmed in post-World War II Germany

And Hattie's got a trio of protectors

With his matinee-idol looks and baggy-pants comic gifts

And only Curtis Hook (Jim Brown) knows where it's at

Intentionally or not

Cardsharp Nick Blake returns home after serving in WWII to discover that a rival syndicate now controls New York's gambling rackets--and that his girlfriend

chorus girls and his first beer

One size fits most

whose other page-turner-to-screen works include Journey into Fear