Musical Mountaineers (1939)

User Rating:

6.1/10   

Director:

Dave Fleischer

Release Date:

12 May 1939 (USA)

Genre:

Animation | Short | Musical

Plot:

Betty Boop runs out of gas in Feud County, and wins over the initially hostile hillbillies with her dancing. |

Plot Keywords:

Betty Boop | Run Out Of Gas | Dancing | Feud | Hillbilly

Cast

Mae Questel

...

Betty Boop (voice)

Runtime:

6 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

USA:Approved (PCA #2289) | USA:Passed (National Board of Review)

Company:

Fleischer Studios

Quotes:

Pa: [singing about Ma] She's got hair that goes to the ground/She takes two steps and she falls right down.
Betty Boop: [singing] How sad, how sad.

Soundtrack:

Them Thar Hills

Singin' & Dancin' In The Mountains

Betty's car stalls out "a thousand miles from nowhere" on a mountain where the famous feud is going on between the Hatfields and the McCoys (except the latter is "Zonk Peters" in this cartoon).

She sidles up to the Peters' shed and gets a hostile reception at first. When Betty convinces them she's not a threat, just a dancer whose car ran out of gas, they all sing and dance. Actually, that's the best part, the second half with a great song-and-dance number that is fun to watch and hear. That's basically the idea behind this animated short, as it was with a lot of Boop cartoons: just a vehicle for music - in this case, some rockabilly.