CommentsXp Best movie ever!

Fairaher The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

Marva It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

Bob This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

mark.waltz Yodelers, hog callers, barn dances and corny jokes are all part of this outrageously bad Z musical where a hog in Pitchfork Arkansas with 18 babies causes a ruckus in the news (even making it into the New York papers) and becomes a huge celebrity. Rumored to become the new star of a Broadway musical revue, this great-grandmother of Miss Piggy forces a New York radio show to visit Pitchfork (is that anywhere near Bug Tussle?) and that great big corn field down south. Pitchfork, Arizona is a backwoods town so filled with hokum that you expect the corn fields to pop up with the cast of "Hee Haw" telling bad jokes or references to the Hogg sisters-Ima and Ura.Slim Summerville, the basset faced comic, headlines the cast with his good extremely old fashioned wisdom, marrying feisty Maude Eburne as part of a bet in the hog calling contest. When one of the hicks (El Brendel) has a strong Swedish accent, don't give into your temptation to throw bricks at the screen. Veteran wisecracker Iris Adrian gets top female billing, getting a romantic part for a change with one of the more realistic locals ("Mildred Pierce's" Bruce Bennett).A subplot involving Eburne's attempt to sell her property goes nowhere but leads into a lengthy barn set radio show featuring Jimmy Wakely and the Pied Pipers. If only the real pied piper had come along and carried this script away before they were able to film it. This one makes you wonder if somebody was high on the hog when they wrote it...what were they smokin'?

arfdawg-1 Wacky Petticoat Junction type movie now in public domain.Townsfolk all move slow.Esmeralda the town pig just gave birth to a slew of liberals.Not sure how many cuz no one can count.We even get to see the Pathe chicken for a minute! Huh? What's that doing there? Anyway the pig gets press all over the globe.A show producer reads about it and wants some of the action.He takes the troupe to Arkansas.The plan is to find out what made the pig spawn so many liberal.Craziness ensues.It's a very watchable movie that could never be made today.

MartinHafer Imagine a film that is like "Hee-Haw", "The Beverly Hillbillies", "Li'l Abner" and you put them together....along with yodeling!! Talk about a recipe for a migraine!! Despite being a public domain film that is free to download, watching this film is no bargain!! The film begins with some pig (the animal, I mean) having a litter of 18 piglets. Well, the nation goes nuts about this--after all, being 1944 there isn't much in the news anyway...except maybe WWII!!! In a contrived plot, a leader of a female band takes his troupe to Arkansas to cash in on the hype about the pigs. But in this one-horse town, the only fun is another band that just happens to be passing through as well! But the all-male band pretends to just be locals. Why? Because it's in the script. And when the two bands get together it's yodeling, Roy Rogers style music, ventriloquism(!) and lots of corn-ball humor. Nowdon't get me wrong--I am not against the South or Mountain folk--just terrifically one-dimensional and silly portrayals of them. And it doesn't get much more silly and one-dimensional than this, as the film manages to be at least as bad as the infamous "Swing Your Lady"--a film that made it to the "Fifty Worst Movies" book! Not good and I film I won't recommend unless you are the type who thinks Larry the Cableguy is too sophisticated!

mccrohan There is a splendid performance from the celebrated actor, Slim Summerville in the role of " Juniper Jenkins ". I have fond memories of Slim,s great acting in the Hollywood classics such as "Front Page ",'All quiet on the western front", " Tobacco Road ", etc, etc. His comedy talent was manifest when he was partnered with Zasu Pitts in a very entertaining series of comedy films. People still delight in seeing him with Shirley Temple in : Captain January" and 'Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm ". It is a tragedy that he died so young but I am thankful for his great legacy. But this film has so much also to enjoy in the many delightful songs by very talented Country Music performers. This film is one of my favorites.