Limerculer A waste of 90 minutes of my life

Kaydan Christian A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

Hayleigh Joseph This is ultimately a movie about the very bad things that can happen when we don't address our unease, when we just try to brush it off, whether that's to fit in or to preserve our self-image.

Zlatica One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

ksimkutch Oddly enough Lew Landers director of such horrors classics as "The Raven" (1935) and "The Return of the Vampire" (1943) is at helm here bringing forth to us this low-below-low budget tired redneck stereotype filled too musical-hardly a comedy.After it makes national headlines that Esmeralda a pig gave birth to eighteen piglets multiple visitors overrun the overly southern small town of Pitchfork. Amongst them are - an all male band who grew up there, an all female band who plan on using the publicity for their own advantage, and two spies from an industrial meat factory who were sent in order to find out what "secret formula" caused that many pigs to be born.With this kind of a ridiculous plot the film takes an extremely lazy route and gives each of it's characters only one clichéd characteristic as an identifier. You have your old fools (Slim Summerville), Cynical gals (Iris Adrian), feisty elderly ladies (Maude Eburne), dashing young men (Bruce Bennett), a somewhat well known musical sensation of the time appearing as themselves (Jimmy Wakely), and it just goes on. Summerville is enjoyable especially while bantering with tenacious Eburne though to a certain extant as his mumbling southerner Walter Brennan-esque routine gets stale real quick. Adrian never got another main starring role which was lucky since her brassiness here is spread so thin it's pretty tiring after a while, Bennett's nothing special but watchable. Wakley should not have been present at all the action stops dead as soon as there's a musical number and despite them being pleasant to one's ear they're basically noting more than just filler.At seventy minutes long this tiny and hidden for a good reason picture does provide some entertainment when it doesn't mainly and heavily rely on poor attempts at screwball comedy-like humor.

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'?

dbborroughs People flock to a small Arkansas town after a prize pig delivers another huge litter of young. Much music and some humor results.Think Petticoat Junction and Green Acres or Hee Haw and then go even more rural and backward. This is a real hillbilly comedy where all of the people in the town look like your stereotypical hillbillies with the hats and the beards. Its a Snuffy Smith cartoon brought to life, only more so (Actually Snuffy had two live action films made about him). Amusing to a point, the problem for me was that the film is almost a steady stream of country music. Don't get me wrong I like country music, but there is so much of it here that there really isn't a plot so much as spoken passages to get you to the next musical number. The result is everyone is a cliché of one sort or another, simply because its the easiest way of telling who anyone is. The jokes which are one liners or arise out of the clichés are okay, but very few of them are laugh out loud funny since many are also forms of ones we've heard before.Can you tell I'm not a fan? Your tolerance for low brow countrified jokes and "constant" country music performances will determine your mileage.

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.