A young married couple go to the big city to spend their honeymoon. The young farmer thinks that he can become rick quick by investing his money in some oil stocks.

Imagine, if you can, a nickelodeon flickering inside a tent of canvas and sawdust: the projector’s carbon arc spits blue fire, and suddenly the screen blooms with a title card that reads A Hickory Hick—a phrase as gnarled and fragrant as the branch it evokes. What follows is not merely a yarn about marital innocence m...

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Comparing the cinematic DNA and archive impact of two defining moments in cult history.

Harold Beaudine

Eduardo Notari
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" Imagine, if you can, a nickelodeon flickering inside a tent of canvas and sawdust: the projector’s carbon arc spits blue fire, and suddenly the screen blooms with a title card that reads A Hickory Hick—a phrase as gnarled and fragrant as the branch it evokes. What follows is not merely a yarn about marital innocence mugged by metropolitan rapacity; it is a pocket-sized morality play disguised as barnyard burlesque, a film that tickles the funny bone while pickpocketing your faith in human prude..."

Charlotte Stevens
Robert Hall
United States

