Shy farmboy loves his next-door neighbor, but she dreams of going to the big city. Then she gets mixed up with big-city gangsters.
Acting
Alan Young's gentle goofball energy saves the whole thing.
Score
Dinah Shore's voice deserved better material than this.
Director
Claude Binyon
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Based on a 1919 play that was already outdated when this was made. Paramount basically dusted off grandpa's material.
This flopped so hard it helped kill the rural musical genre—audiences were done with hayseed protagonists by '52.
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