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7 March 1941 (USA)
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Shiftless Jeeter Lester and his family of hillbilly stereotypes live in a rural backwater where their ancestors were once wealthy planters...
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Hillbilly Hell
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Charley Grapewin | ... | Jeeter Lester |
| Marjorie Rambeau | ... | Sister Bessie Rice |
 | Gene Tierney | ... | Ellie May Lester |
| William Tracy | ... | Dude Lester |
| Elizabeth Patterson | ... | Ada Lester |
 | Dana Andrews | ... | Capt. Tim Harmon |
| Slim Summerville | ... | Henry Peabody |
| Ward Bond | ... | Lov Bensey |
| Grant Mitchell | ... | George Payne (banker) |
| Zeffie Tilbury | ... | Grandma Lester |
| Russell Simpson | ... | Chief of Police |
| Spencer Charters | ... | County Clerk |
| Irving Bacon | ... | Bank teller |
| Harry Tyler | ... | Auto dealer |
| Charles Halton | ... | Mayor |
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84 min
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1.37 : 1 more
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Mono (Western Electric Mirrophonic Recording)
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Sweden:15 |
USA:Approved (PCA #6979)
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The Broadway play by Jack Kirkland based on Erskine Caldwell's novel opened 4 December 1933 and set a record for longevity on Broadway when it closed on 31 May 1941 after 3,281 performances. It was revived on Broadway twice in the next two years, bring its total running time there to nearly ten years (1933-1943). Opened at the Theatre Masque and then moved to the 48th Street Theatre followed by the Forrest Theatre for the original production. The play was revived in 1942, 1943 and 1950.
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Continuity: The morning following a torrential rain storm, dirt roads are absolutely dry.
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Jeeter Lester:
Why, Ada here never... never spoke a word to me for the first ten years we was married. Heh! Them was the happiest ten years of my life.
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Referenced in Grindhouse (2007)
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Bringing in the Sheaves
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After a bank purchases the land, a family of hillbillies faces eviction if it can't come up with the rent. Based on a Caldwell novel that in turn became a stage play, this is very broad comedy that rarely rises above the level of The Three Stooges. Grapewin plays a lazy farmer who has so many children that he and his wife can't keep track of them. Tracy is horribly over-the-top as one of the grown children living at home. Tierney is third billed as Tracy's useless sister but barely has a line of dialog. Rambeau does OK as a neighbor. Andrews plays the only character who has some dignity. Every once in a while Ford came up with a real clunker, and this is one of them.