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A hick musical where the farmboy gets the girl AND fights gangsters? 1952 was WILD.
TMDB
40
IMDb
52

Aaron Slick from Punkin Crick (1952)

corny as hellwholesome chaosbarn-dance energy

Overview

ComedyMusic

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.

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Content warning
musicalromancehick

Standout Aspects

Acting

Alan Young's gentle goofball energy saves the whole thing.

Score

Dinah Shore's voice deserved better material than this.

Best for:Background: Fold laundry to this, it's aggressively pleasant.·Date Night: If your date loves ironic vintage cheese.·Rewatch: Annual 'what were the 50s smoking' ritual.
C

Director

Claude Binyon

ReleasedApr 1, 1952
Runtime1h 35m
StatusReleased

Vibe

Pacesteady
Intensitylow
Tonelight
Feellight
Perlberg-Seaton Productions

Top Cast

Alan Young

Alan Young

Aaron Slick

Dinah Shore

Dinah Shore

Josie Berry

Adele Jergens

Adele Jergens

Gladys

Minerva Urecal

Minerva Urecal

Mrs. Peabody

Martha Stewart

Martha Stewart

Soubrette

Fritz Feld

Fritz Feld

Headwaiter

Veda Ann Borg

Veda Ann Borg

Girl in Red

Chick Chandler

Chick Chandler

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Deep Dive

Trivia, insights & behind the scenes

Trivia

Based on a 1919 play that was already outdated when this was made. Paramount basically dusted off grandpa's material.

Cultural

This flopped so hard it helped kill the rural musical genre—audiences were done with hayseed protagonists by '52.

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