Thursday, March 8, 2018

I'm from Arkansas (1944), 6-

The national spotlight falls on Pitchfork, Arkansas when a local farmer's sow has 18 piglets. How the townspeople relate to city folk and handle fame is the ingredient for laughs.
1h 10min | Comedy, Musical, Romance | 31 October 1944
Director: Lew Landers
Stars: Slim Summerville, El Brendel, Iris Adrian, Bruce Bennett

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0036941/
Watched on AmazonPrime, also on a megapack.

Pleasant, with some familiar faces and 10 songs (2 of them yodeling). Very strange story, focused on 2 troupes of show people gathering in this hamlet; one because the bandleader (BB) hails from there, the other because the manager wants to do something related to the pig's fame. They all have to stay at the same boarding house (amazing that it has sufficient room for all), and romance blooms between BB and IA, and marriage finally commences between SS and the house mother. The plot gets a twist when the pig's mud turns out to have therapeutic value.

PRC, dir. Landers; 6-