Feudin' Fools (1952)

Director:

William Beaudine

Writers:

Bert Lawrence (original screenplay) and
Tim Ryan (original screenplay)

Release Date:

21 September 1952 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy

Plot:

Sach discovers that he is heir to a farm in rural hillbilly country. He and the boys go to the farm to check it out, and find themselves mixed up with feuding hillbillies and a gang of bank robbers.

Plot Keywords:

Sheriff | Gang Leader | Series | Yiddish | Rifle

Cast

Leo Gorcey	...	Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney
Huntz Hall	...	Horace Debussy 'Sach' Jones
Dorothy Ford	...	Tiny Smith
Lyle Talbot	...	Big Jim
Benny Baker	...	Corky
Anne Kimbell	...	Ellie Mae Smith
Oliver Blake	...	Clem Smith
Bernard Gorcey	...	Louie Dumbrowsky
David Gorcey	...	Chuck (as David Condon)
Benny Bartlett	...	Butch (as Bennie Bartlett)
Fuzzy Knight	...	Traps
Robert Easton	...	Caleb Smith
O.Z. Whitehead	...	Yancy Smith
Paul Wexler	...	Luke Smith
Russell Simpson	...	Grandpa Smith

Also Known As:

Down on the Farm (USA)

Runtime:

63 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

USA:Approved | USA:Passed (National Board of Review)

Company:

Monogram Pictures Corporation

Trivia:

Shot in six days.

Movie Connections:

Follows Fighting Fools (1949)

Fun Saturday Afternoon Humor!!

*** This comment may contain spoilers ***

This one is one of my favorite and most memorable Bowery Boys Movies, when I saw it as a kid. The Boys travel to the countryside, where a recently deceased relative has bequeathed, to Sach, a piece of real estate. Upon their arrival, Slip, Sach and the Gang encounter a pack of rifle-toting, long-bearded feuding hillbillies named "Smith", who seem to be locked in a perpetual, single-minded quest to shoot anyone from the rival "Jones" Family. I found it hilariously madcap when Sach, after inheriting the property and in order to avoid getting shot at by his new neighbors, tried desperately to pretend that his last name was NOT Jones. When some bad guys come and take the Boys hostage, Slip cleverly turns the Hillbillies loose on the gangsters, by referring repeatedly to every single hoodlum as "Mr. Jones".