The Second Time Around (1961 film)

The Second Time Around
Theatrical release poster
Directed byVincent Sherman
Screenplay byOscar Saul
Clair Huffaker (as Cecil Dan Hensen)
Based onStar in the West
1951 novel
by Richard Emery Roberts
Produced byJack Cummings
StarringDebbie Reynolds
Steve Forrest
Andy Griffith
CinematographyEllis W. Carter
Edited byBetty Steinberg
Music byGerald Fried
Production
company
Cummings-Harman Productions
Distributed byTwentieth Century-Fox
Release date
  • December 22, 1961 (1961-12-22)
Running time
99 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

The Second Time Around is a 1961 American CinemaScope Comedy Western film starring Debbie Reynolds as a widow who relocates her family from 1912 New York to the last contiguous state, of the Union, Arizona Territory. It is based on the novel Star in the West by Richard Emery Roberts.

The film co-stars Andy Griffith and Steve Forrest. It was directed by Vincent Sherman.