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I'm from Arkansas

  • 1944
  • Approved
  • 1h 10m
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5.3/10
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Iris Adrian, Bruce Bennett, Slim Summerville, Merle Travis, Jimmy Wakely, and The Milo Twins in I'm from Arkansas (1944)
ComedyMusicMusicalRomanceWestern

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.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.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.

  • Director
    • Lew Landers
  • Writers
    • Marcy Klauber
    • Joseph Carole
  • Stars
    • Slim Summerville
    • El Brendel
    • Iris Adrian
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  • IMDb RATING
    5.3/10
    220
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Lew Landers
    • Writers
      • Marcy Klauber
      • Joseph Carole
    • Stars
      • Slim Summerville
      • El Brendel
      • Iris Adrian
    • 12User reviews
    • 3Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
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    Slim Summerville
    Slim Summerville
    • Juniper Jenkins
    El Brendel
    El Brendel
    • Oly
    Iris Adrian
    Iris Adrian
    • Doris
    Bruce Bennett
    Bruce Bennett
    • Bob Hamline
    Maude Eburne
    Maude Eburne
    • Matilda Alden
    Cliff Nazarro
    Cliff Nazarro
    • Willie Childs
    Al St. John
    Al St. John
    • Farmer
    • (as Al 'Fuzzy' St. John)
    Carolina Cotton
    Carolina Cotton
    • Abby Alden
    Danny Jackson
    • Efus Jenkins
    Paul Newlan
    Paul Newlan
    • Farmer
    • (as Paul 'Tiny' Newlan)
    Harry Harvey
    Harry Harvey
    • Stowe Packing Company Representative
    Arthur Q. Bryan
    • Commissioner of Agriculture
    John Hamilton
    John Hamilton
    • Harry Cashin
    Douglas Wood
    Douglas Wood
    • Governor of Arkansas
    Walter Baldwin
    Walter Baldwin
    • Packing Company Attorney
    Flo Bert
    • Showgirl
    The Pied Pipers
    • Quartet
    The Sunshine Girls
    • Girl Trio
    • Director
      • Lew Landers
    • Writers
      • Marcy Klauber
      • Joseph Carole
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    8mccrohan

    A Feast of enjoyable old time country music

    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.
    6arfdawg-1

    Another Time and Place

    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.
    3bkoganbing

    "What's There In Pitchfork?"

    A lot of familiar players try very hard to make this PRC film somewhat entertaining and it does succeed when it comes to the country musical acts. But the cheapness of a typical PRC film make I'm From Arkansas barely passable entertainment even in the areas it was marketed to in red state America.

    I'm From Arkansas probably never saw a New York opening, these kinds of films went right into general release in the south and west where they made money. I remember back when I was in the Army Reserves and stationed in such places as Fort Campbell, Kentucky or Fort Stewart, Georgia I saw films that I would never see at any neighborhood theater in Brooklyn. No doubt it was the same in the Forties.

    It's not quite The Miracle Of Morgan's Creek, but they've had a miracle of sorts in Pitchfork, Arkansas. Maude Eburne's sow Esmeralda gave birth to a little of 18 piglets. That passes for news and you'd have thought the Dionnes had another set of quintuplets when it goes out over the air.

    An all girl orchestra headed by Iris Adrian and managed by Clif Nazarro decides to take advantage of the publicity and they head for Pitchfork. But so does Bruce Bennett's country band and they have a slight advantage as Bennett is from Pitchfork.

    The villain of the piece is hog butcher John Hamilton who sends two of his men to buy that property figuring that there's some kind of hog aphrodisiac there to make Esmeralda so fertile. There is also a mineral spring that could be beneficial to humans as well. Those city slickers don't know what they're up against when Bennett and Adrian join forces to protect Maude Eburne and her kin.

    They even have El Brendel in the cast. Yumpin' Yiminy how did he get to Arkansas.

    Some country music acts of the day are on the bill here. Jimmy Wakely sings pretty and Carolina Cotton yodels as good as Roy Rogers.

    Still it's a very cheap PRC film and true enough it does stereotype rural folks horribly. Of course not as bad as Deliverance.
    3ksimkutch

    And I couldn't care less

    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.
    5apkat

    Les Paul's partner Mary Ford appears in three songs

    This film is not quite a classic, but it did have one delightful surprise for me.

    Iris Colleen Summers, aka Mary Ford, Les Paul's singing partner, is about 20 years old in this film and sings in three songs as one of the Sunshine Girls trio for Jimmy Wakely's band. She has a brief solo in the first song. It was her only film appearance before working with Les Paul.

    Les Paul and Mary Ford had numerous top ten hits in the early 1950s, including "How High the Moon" and "Tiger Rag".

    Otherwise, this film includes a couple examples of Cliff Nazarro's famous doubletalk and two delightful yodeling songs from Carolina Cotton.

    I'd say the music takes a front seat to the comedy here.

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      The earliest documented telecasts of this film occurred in Washington DC 8/11/47 on WTTG (Channel 5), in New York City 10/16/47 on WCBS (Channel 2), in both Philadelphia and Baltimore 3/27/49 on WCAU (Channel 10) and on WMAR (Channel 2), and in Chicago 4/9/49 on WGN (Channel 9).
    • Soundtracks
      You're the Hit of the Season
      Written by Lewis Bellin (uncredited) and Ed Dorien (uncredited)

      Performed by The Pied Pipers

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    • Release date
      • October 31, 1944 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Production company
      • Producers Releasing Corporation (PRC)
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      1 hour 10 minutes
    • Color
      • Black and White
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.37 : 1

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