2/10
Broadway storms to the stykx...for a prized heffer.
22 April 2015
Warning: Spoilers
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'?
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