Protraph Lack of good storyline.

Tedfoldol everything you have heard about this movie is true.

ChanFamous I wanted to like it more than I actually did... But much of the humor totally escaped me and I walked out only mildly impressed.

Brooklynn There's a more than satisfactory amount of boom-boom in the movie's trim running time.

Lechuguilla Oh what miserable characters. Everyone in this story is unhappy, and desperate for something: love, sex, a job, votes. But mostly, they're desperate for change.Ty Ty (Robert Ryan), a desperately poor dirt farmer in rural Georgia, digs holes on his property looking for gold supposedly buried by an ancestor. Ty Ty, a religious man, dedicates a small area of his property to God, unless that small area happens to be where the gold is buried; in which case he will re-locate God's parcel of land somewhere else, and keep the gold for himself.His five grown children, a mix of male hicks and trashy vixens, are as miserable and desperate as Ty Ty. They and their spouses fight among themselves over every little thing, including Ty Ty's delusional behavior. In one scene toward the end, Ty Ty tells his kids: "God didn't put us here to scrap and fight each other all the time ... I've tried all my life to keep a peaceful family ... if you'd just stop fightin'. To which one of his sons barks out: "You talk like an old fool". Later, Ty Ty angrily responds in a preachy tone: "If I was you, when I went to bed tonight, I'd get down on my knees and ... try talking to God a little."The script's plot is too drawn-out, given the premise; and the structure is terrible. Ty Ty is presumably the script's protagonist. Yet, a son-in-law named Bill (Aldo Ray) carries many of the scenes. Both dialogue and acting are dreadfully overwrought. The ending seems tacked on.The film's B&W lighting is probably the best element; it's quite good. Compared to other performances, I thought Buddy Hackett gave a pleasantly restrained performance.If you like overwrought, melodramatic stories with lots of talk, and centered around ignorant Southern hillbillies, this is the film for you.

thinker1691 In 1933 while America endured the Great Depression, Erskine Caldwell published his controversial novel " God's Little Acre. " Condemmed, reviled and even Banned, the book continued to sell, but not without consequences. While the author was arrested and jailed, his novel went onto the silver screen and revealed the painful secrets many wanted to keep secret. By today's social standards, the book and the forbidden Black and White scenes in the movie are mild and considered hardly exciting. Yet, in the Baptist south and most of the religious, conservative towns, these scandalous scenes often lead to dangerous censorship. Viewed by Modern audiences, little in the story is shocking. Erskine's book tell of Ty Ty Walden (Robert Ryan), a poor George farmer who inherited his father's farm and a dubious story of buried gold hidden somewhere on the farm. Together with his sons Buck (Jack Lord) and Shaw (Vic Marrow) they spend years seeking the treasure. Ty Ty's daughters Griselda (Tina Louise), Darlin' Jill and Rosamund (Helen Westcott) have their own problems but handle them accordingly. Griselda is aware of how much her former boyfriend Billy Thompson (Aldo Ray) desires her and encourages him. Jill is an exciting and playful scamp who plays to whomever is around, earning her a sinful reputation, especially with Plato Swint (Buddy Hackett), the Sheriff to be. Michael Landon is surprising as 'The Albino' Dave Dawson. The story is simple enough, but it's scandalous nature created a aura of sex and debauchery, that insured a Classic in movie circles. A good vehicle for Robert Ryan and it's Nice to see him as a good guy for once. ****

kenjha The Caldwell bestseller about a dysfunctional Southern family becomes an entertaining potboiler. The familiar cast features at least three actors who would go on to star in popular TV series (Louise, Lord, and Landon, the last playing an albino!). Ryan has a field day as the patriarch of the family, obsessed with finding gold on his land. Louise makes a lusty film debut as Lord's unfaithful wife. Her ample bosom gets so much screen time that it should have received no lower than third billing. Using gritty black and white, widescreen cinematography, Mann does an effective job of conveying the passion and the greed of these low-life characters.

DJJOEINC God's Little Acre - 1958 Anthony Mann flick about a group of hillbillies in Georgia.Robert Ryan is the aw-shucks gold digging patriarch of this mess of a family.This southern melodrama has kidnapping,adultery,albino(played by Michael Landon) and Tina Louise's cleavage.Picture a mix of Gomer Pyle,Dukes of Hazard & I don't know um grits- then you have this odd duck of a movie.Jack Lord,Buddy Hackett,Aldo Ray & Vic Morrow tear up the scenery in this share-cropper soap opera.This movie feels like an overgrown black and white cartoon portrayal of the south.I got this on the cheap- C-The DVD is a good transfer-- but has no extrasnot even a trailer