Dancing Co-Ed "Samuel Goldwyn Films"

Dancing Co-Ed "Samuel Goldwyn Films"Her hair isn't yet platinum and her makeup is still more girlish than glamorous, but Lana Turner is nonetheless "a walking acetylene torch" in her first top billing, playing a dancer planted in a big Midwest college to win a rigged Hollywood contest. The prize: the starring role in a big movie musical. The complications: plenty, especially when the co ed falls for a crusading college newshound (Richard Carlson) who suspects the contest is as phony as

experience the pangs of first love

as does a companion lion named Baron

full of passion and swordplay

ever-reliable comedy veterans Denholm Elliott and Dennis Price

with their help

he finds a new romance

Moviegoers took the whole Hardy clan to its heart - especially Rooney's irrepressible Andy - and thronged popcorn palaces to share more warmhearted father-and-son wisdom leavened by laughs

in which Heidi meets the mountain creatures of the Wunderhorn

" "The Maltese Falcon") and a powerhouse cast make magic in this tongue-in-cheek Western saga

who lent his signature layered

to Judy's plaintive rendition of "(I Ain't Got) Nobody

the pranksters decide to play detective