A Hollywood film-director has been sent to Hickory Kentucky to find material and acts for a hill-billy picture.He is kidnapped by henchmen of a big-town city slicker who has taken over the operation of the town’s annual jubilee..mostly using bottom-of-the-barrel acts from the swamps of Florida. A Hollywood trade-paper reporter, sent to cover the event, finally thwarts the gang’s plans to loot the civic coffers and the local bank. Jerry Colonna, between the 15 staging of acts from Florida that killed vaudeville, flits in and out as a hired emcee, who also gets kidnapped. |
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Ratings: | IMDB: 5.6/10 | |
Released: | May 18, 1951 | |
Runtime: | 72 min | |
Genres: | Comedy Music | |
Companies: | Lippert Pictures | |
Cast: | James Ellison Jerry Colonna Jean Porter Fritz Feld | |
Crew: | Ron Ormond Maurice Tombragel | |
veronicav : when i was kid This movie was my first exposure to horror on afternoon TV Still love it.