Trouble Along the Way was a 1953 film starring John Wayne and Donna Reed, with a supporting cast including Charles Coburn and Marie Windsor. The movie was directed by Michael Curtiz, director of Casablanca. The black-and-white comedy was released by Warner Bros. with an aspect ratio of 1:33. John Wayne portrays a college football coach who has been fired from previous jobs for violating rules relating to players' eligibility. Wayne's character is a divorced father of an eleven-year-old tomboy, Carol . Charles Coburn plays the dean of a financially distressed Catholic college in New York... City who hires Wayne to make the college's football team competitive so that receipts from game ticket sales will supply funds for the college. Donna Reed plays a social worker who in investigating complaints of child neglect against John Wayne's character. James Dean appears as an uncredited extra in the film, during a scene in the college chapel.
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| Release date: | April 4, 1953 |
| Directed by: | Michael Curtiz |
| Runtime: | 110 Minutes |
| Producer: | Melville Shavelson |
| Music by: | Max Steiner |
| Cinematography: | Archie Stout |
| Genre: | Comedy |