"America's Fearless Showman" Kroger Babb reissued The Lawton Story, a 1949 film from B-movie director Harold Daniels (Bayou) about an annual Easter pageant in Lawton, Oklahoma, with a new title and nude scenes...just kidding! Instead, Babb hired fabled quickie director William "One Shot" Beaudine (Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter) to shoot a maudlin wraparound written by Babb's wife Mildred Horn (Mom and Dad) profiling precocious child actor Ginger Prince. Daniels' original cut featured Lawton townspeople, such as Millard Coody and Darlene Bridges, as themselves and as biblical characters in the pageant, while Beaudine's add-on offered character actors Forrest Taylor from Sam Fuller's Park Row and Ferris Taylor (Henry Aldrich Haunts A House) as bickering brothers in need of divine inspiration. Cinematographer Henry Sharp had previously filmed Duck Soup for the Marx Brothers.
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