When I saw Lucille Ball's name in the cast, I thought I would be in for a bit of comedy but how wrong I was!
It's a basic story of a guy, a football player, on top along with his aggressive and ambitious wife. Victor Mature and Lizabeth Scott appear as the perfect couple. However, when Mature is diagnosed with a heart problem that would end his career, he cannot bring himself to tell his wife since she is now used to high living and not going to some college town as the wife of a football coach.
As owner of the team, Lloyd Nolan is great here. He wants victory and only at the end of the film does Mature let him know the story. As his daughter-in-law, Lucille Ball comes across as the business-like secretary and is widowed and she has romantic designs on Mature.
To me, a flaw in the film was the rapid southward movement of the Mature-Scott marriage. As is true in many films of this nature, solid good sense shall ultimately win out.
It's a basic story of a guy, a football player, on top along with his aggressive and ambitious wife. Victor Mature and Lizabeth Scott appear as the perfect couple. However, when Mature is diagnosed with a heart problem that would end his career, he cannot bring himself to tell his wife since she is now used to high living and not going to some college town as the wife of a football coach.
As owner of the team, Lloyd Nolan is great here. He wants victory and only at the end of the film does Mature let him know the story. As his daughter-in-law, Lucille Ball comes across as the business-like secretary and is widowed and she has romantic designs on Mature.
To me, a flaw in the film was the rapid southward movement of the Mature-Scott marriage. As is true in many films of this nature, solid good sense shall ultimately win out.