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Scudda Hoo! Scudda Hay!

  • 1948
  • Approved
  • 1h 35m
IMDb RATING
5.9/10
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June Haver and Lon McCallister in Scudda Hoo! Scudda Hay! (1948)
ComedyDramaRomance

In 1948 rural America, two stepbrothers compete for the same gal and the younger brother buys two untamed mules for work projects while the older brother tries to sabotage him.In 1948 rural America, two stepbrothers compete for the same gal and the younger brother buys two untamed mules for work projects while the older brother tries to sabotage him.In 1948 rural America, two stepbrothers compete for the same gal and the younger brother buys two untamed mules for work projects while the older brother tries to sabotage him.

  • Director
    • F. Hugh Herbert
  • Writers
    • F. Hugh Herbert
    • George Agnew Chamberlain
  • Stars
    • June Haver
    • Lon McCallister
    • Walter Brennan
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  • IMDb RATING
    5.9/10
    381
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • F. Hugh Herbert
    • Writers
      • F. Hugh Herbert
      • George Agnew Chamberlain
    • Stars
      • June Haver
      • Lon McCallister
      • Walter Brennan
    • 14User reviews
    • 3Critic reviews
  • See production, box office & company info
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    Walter Brennan, June Haver, and Lon McCallister in Scudda Hoo! Scudda Hay! (1948)
    Natalie Wood and June Haver in Scudda Hoo! Scudda Hay! (1948)
    Natalie Wood and June Haver in Scudda Hoo! Scudda Hay! (1948)
    June Haver and Tom Tully in Scudda Hoo! Scudda Hay! (1948)
    Natalie Wood and Walter Brennan in Scudda Hoo! Scudda Hay! (1948)
    June Haver and Lon McCallister in Scudda Hoo! Scudda Hay! (1948)
    Natalie Wood and June Haver in Scudda Hoo! Scudda Hay! (1948)
    June Haver and Lon McCallister in Scudda Hoo! Scudda Hay! (1948)
    June Haver and Lon McCallister in Scudda Hoo! Scudda Hay! (1948)
    June Haver in Scudda Hoo! Scudda Hay! (1948)
    June Haver and Lon McCallister in Scudda Hoo! Scudda Hay! (1948)
    June Haver and Lon McCallister in Scudda Hoo! Scudda Hay! (1948)

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    June Haver
    June Haver
    • Rad McGill
    Lon McCallister
    Lon McCallister
    • Daniel 'Snug' Dominy
    Walter Brennan
    Walter Brennan
    • Tony Maule
    Anne Revere
    Anne Revere
    • Judith Dominy
    Natalie Wood
    Natalie Wood
    • Eufraznee 'Bean' McGill
    Robert Karnes
    Robert Karnes
    • Stretch Dominy
    Henry Hull
    Henry Hull
    • Milt Dominy
    Tom Tully
    Tom Tully
    • Robert 'Roarer' McGill
    Robert Adler
    Robert Adler
    • Mac - a Lumberjack
    • (uncredited)
    Guy Beach
    • Elmer
    • (uncredited)
    Ken Christy
    Ken Christy
    • Sheriff Tod Bursom
    • (uncredited)
    G. Pat Collins
    G. Pat Collins
    • Mike Malone
    • (uncredited)
    Edward Gargan
    Edward Gargan
    • Ted
    • (uncredited)
    Herbert Heywood
    • Dugan
    • (uncredited)
    Eugene Jackson
    • Stable Hand - Tony
    • (uncredited)
    Lee MacGregor
    • Ches Forrester
    • (uncredited)
    Matt McHugh
    Matt McHugh
    • Frank the Barber
    • (uncredited)
    Marilyn Monroe
    Marilyn Monroe
    • Betty
    • (uncredited)
    • Director
      • F. Hugh Herbert
    • Writers
      • F. Hugh Herbert
      • George Agnew Chamberlain
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    • Trivia
      This is generally considered to be the screen debut of Marilyn Monroe, although most of her footage was cut. She is visible just for a fleeting second or less as she descends the church steps and says, "Hi Rad," to June Haver's character as everyone is coming out of church on Sunday morning.
    • Quotes

      Daniel 'Snug' Dominy: [he sits down at the table] Sorry I'm late

      Judith Dominy: Get that dog outta here

      Daniel 'Snug' Dominy: Oh, leave him be. He won't hurt none

      Judith Dominy: Get that dog out of my house!

      Milt Dominy: Your house? Your House! You leave the dog stay

      Judith Dominy: I said I want the dog out of the house

      Milt Dominy: I say the dog stays. Did you hear me?

      Daniel 'Snug' Dominy: Yes, sir. I heard ya. Get down, Ruff. Boy am I hungry! Hey, where are my hot cakes?

      Judith Dominy: You're late. This is a farm, not a hotel

      Milt Dominy: Fix the boy his breakfast

      Judith Dominy: Let him fix it his-self

      Milt Dominy: Woman, I'm sickened to death with your harp'...

      Judith Dominy: I ain't a gonna waste no more of my life...

      [they shout over each other]

      Milt Dominy: For once in your life, your gonna shut up and listen me. Nine year ago, my Marti died. You was all for joining hands and a home. You and your boy, Stretch here, along with me and Snug. No sugar-cured ham was ever smoother to the taste until you got me hog-tied in marriage

      Stretch Dominy: Nobody held a gun in your ribs

      Milt Dominy: But from that moment to this here, your clammer-hammer tongue ain't never ceased a-swinging like an old cow's tail. It ain't so much the fact that your a woman keeps me from beating you up, it's the thought of how much you and this worthless son of yours would like to land me in jail. Tell you what I'm going to do with you. I'm through

      [he gets up]

      Milt Dominy: I'm getting out. I stuck it out as long as Snug here was little and needed care - even such care as you've give' him. But that day has gone - and I'm going with it. I never should have quit the sea and I'm shipping back to sea again right this minute.

      Judith Dominy: You don't daerst.

      [she rises]

      Judith Dominy: You're afraid. The years ashore have made you soft. Like a fly drown-ded in honey, you'll be stuck here till you die

      Milt Dominy: I'll show you how soft I be. I'll show you how stuck I be.

      [he gets his hat and coat from the closet]

      Milt Dominy: You watch me. You watch me walk out that door right now with nought but my two feet and my two good hands. You just watch me. And I ain't a-coming back

      [he exits]

      Daniel 'Snug' Dominy: Atta Boy, Pa!

      [he runs to join his father]

      Judith Dominy: I done it! I run him out. I run him out good and his brat along with him.

    • Alternate versions
      At least two versions were in circulation at one time: one with Marilyn Monroe's single line of dialog intact, and another in which her line was cut out.
    • Connections
      Featured in Biography: Marilyn Monroe: The Mortal Goddess (1996)
    • Soundtracks
      Blow the Man Down
      Traditional

      Played when the Milt and Snug are discussing being at sea

    User reviews14

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    Featured review
    5/10
    When you want a mule to give 110%
    This rustic film, something not usually made by 20th Century Fox has come down in screen legend as the debut of Marilyn Monroe. She's very briefly seen paddling a canoe after church. As it turns out she's not the only tragic legend in Scudda Hoo! Scudda Hay! Natalie Wood who plays June Haver's little sister and a little miss fixit is also here.

    Young Lon McCallister quits his home and hearth leaving it to mean stepmother Anne Revere and her lugnut of a son Robert Karnes. Almost on a whim he buys a pair of mules who won't work for anyone else but him. Still he's in debt to miserly Tom Tully for them. And Tully is not a man to give anyone a break even with daughter June Haver falling for McCallister.

    The man who teaches McCallister about how to work and the dignity of the mule is Walter Brennan playing another of his rustic old timers with lots of wisdom. He also has a nice taste for booze which nearly costs McCallister his mules.

    Except for the Francis series, Scudda Hoo! Scudda Hay! is the only film I know that's about mules. And McCallister's two don't have quite the talents that Francis had. Incidentally the title is what Walter Brennan teaches McCallister to say if he wants his mules to give that 110%.

    McCallister and Haver make a nice young couple. Not the greatest of films but a worthy debut for a legend.
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    Details

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    • Release date
      • September 23, 1948 (Mexico)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Summer Lightning
    • Filming locations
      • Sonora, California, USA
    • Production company
      • Twentieth Century Fox
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 35 minutes
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.37 : 1

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