The Greener Hills (1939) Poster

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6/10
"What have you got yourself into now?"
boblipton27 April 2019
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Emmet Vogan drags wife Grace Stafford and the kids from one money-making farm scheme to the next: peanuts, honey, it's all one to him, and he dives in without knowing that peanuts grow underground.

Grace Stafford is best remembered as the voice of Woody Woodpecker from 1951 through 1972, a role she got through hard work and.... well, she was married to Walter Lantz. Mr. Vogan is not particularly remembered for anything, even though he appeared in almost 500 features and shorts from 1934 through 1956, before he tailed off in television by the next year. He played a lot of uncredited bits and crowd scenes along the way, but he's good as the fast-talking dreamer, and Miss Stafford as the put-upon wife.
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6/10
This live action short traces the perambulations of a despicable . . .
tadpole-596-9182561 May 2019
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. . . carpetbagger across America's too-trusting Heartland. "Henry Miller" takes a time out from his salacious story telling to dabble in corn, beans, potatoes, peanuts, and bees. Hank spouts out platitudes such as, "Oh, Honey, we've hitched our wagon to a star, and it's filled with Golden Goobers!" Wife "Harriet Miller" serves as Hank's chief enabler, egging him on toward ever-more-widespread agricultural usurpation. Hank's career in pillaging knows no bounds, as he leap-frogs into the strategic apiary sector. Not content to leave the birds and the bees to their own devices, Hank strings up their dirty linen for the whole World to gawk at. THE GREENER HILLS are totally devastated by Hank's depredations, since he knows nothing about the Modern Sciences of Crop Rotation, Contoured Plowing, and Periodic Fallow Fields. The Miller Family lay waste to everything in their path, not unlike boll weevils. THE GREEN HILLS goes a long way in explaining exactly why strangers are traditionally shot on sight in the "No Go Zones" of America's breadbasket.
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