Bobby is a college cut-up who is sent down to the farm in the hope that he will mend his ways. Here he meets, along with two pals, a couple of chorus girls who take him for a "rube.

Frank Roland Conklin, Scott Darling
United States

The first thing that hits you is the shimmer of nitrate arrogance—those overexposed whites that make every straw hat look haloed by scandal. Director Scott Darling, fresh off scripting Little Pal, treats the rural expanse like a blank vaudeville page: every cow a potential straight man, every windmill blade a timing ...


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" The first thing that hits you is the shimmer of nitrate arrogance—those overexposed whites that make every straw hat look haloed by scandal. Director Scott Darling, fresh off scripting Little Pal, treats the rural expanse like a blank vaudeville page: every cow a potential straight man, every windmill blade a timing device. The scenario, sketched by Frank Roland Conklin with the same caffeinated glee he later brought to Go and Get It, is thinner than a ukulele string, yet it twangs with syncop..."


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