Come Next Spring (1956)

Matt Ballot has returned home after 12 years of hard drinking in all 48 states. His wife managed to raise their 14-year-old daughter and 12-year-old son nicely without his help. Matt is ... See full summary »

Director:

R.G. Springsteen

Writer:

Montgomery Pittman

Stars:

Ann Sheridan, Steve Cochran, Walter Brennan

Cast

Cast overview:
Ann Sheridan	...	Bess Ballot
Steve Cochran	...	Matt Ballot
Walter Brennan	...	Jeffrey Storys
Sherry Jackson	...	Annie
Richard Eyer	...	Abraham
Edgar Buchanan	...	Mr. Canary
Sonny Tufts	...	Leroy Hightower
Harry Shannon	...	Mr. Totter
James Westmoreland	...	Bob Storys (as Rad Fulton)
Mae Clarke	...	Myrtle
Roscoe Ates	...	Shorty Wilkins
Wade Ruby	...	Delbert Meaner
James Best	...	Bill Jackson

Storyline

Matt Ballot has returned home after 12 years of hard drinking in all 48 states. His wife managed to raise their 14-year-old daughter and 12-year-old son nicely without his help. Matt is considered a disgrace to the town he came from, and now he finds himself trying to win the love of his children, his wife and the respect of the towns people. Set in Arkansas in the 1920s.

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Plot Keywords:

arkansas | drinking | outcast | pride | homecoming | 

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Genres:

Drama

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Certificate:

Approved

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

9 March 1956 (USA)

Also Known As:

Celui qu'on n'attendait plus

Filming Locations:

Ione, California, USA

Company Credits

Production Co:

Republic Pictures (I)

Technical Specs

Runtime:

92 min

Color:

Color (Trucolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Did You Know?

Soundtracks

"Arkansas Traveler"
(uncredited)
Traditional
Heard during the fight sequence in Steiner's score

User Reviews

The roots of a great film

Steve Cochran had formed his own independent-producing firm in 1955, called Robert Alexander Productions (his birth name was Robert Alexander Cochran), and an offshoot of this company, Tangent Films, was making television commercials in New York.

In 1950, while working together on Warner Brothers' "THE LION AND THE HORSE", Sherry Jackson introduced her young widowed mother to writer Montgomery Pittman, Steve Cochran's best friend.(Sherry Jackson's father was killed in an automobile accident in 1948.) This meeting between Pittman and Jackson's mother culminated in their marriage two years later, with Steve Cochran acting as best man for his friend Pittman.

In 1955, Montgomery Pittman turned his (exceptional) writing talent to providing a challenging vehicle for his vastly-talented young step-daughter and came up with COME NEXT SPRING. Steve Cochran bought the story for his just-formed Robert Alexander Productions.

Steve Cochran then SOLD it to Republic Pictures Corporation, for an undisclosed amount of money...plus the proviso that he would star in the film and Sherry Jackson would play the role of Annie Ballott. Republic agreed to the terms, laid out the money... and Robert Alexander Productions and erstwhile-producer Steve Cochran made a graceful exit, while (uncredited)Republic house-people took over the production of this now-recognized great film, directed by the unheralded (before or afterwards) R. G. Springsteen, who had only once before been handed a film---A PERILOUS JOURNEY--- with an A-budget and cast of this quality and never a story of the quality written by Montgomert Pittman, just written with his step-daughter in mind as the mute Annie Boots, who was mute because of an automobile accident.

House-director "Bud" Springsteen did himself proud. Possibly because Montgomery Pittman was standing near-by?