Summary
A bucolic fever-dream stitched from nitrate and moonshine, Speed ’Em Up uncorks its premise inside a sun-cracked barnyard where time itself grows brittle. Harry, the laconic farmhand with shoulders like plow-blades, lopes through chores while Johnny—second fiddle, first-class trickster—clutches a crate of cobalt bottles labeled “Pepo,” a potion that percolates velocity into the inert. One splash on the sheriff’s motorcycle and the machine howls off like a comet with abandonment issues; a drizzle over cracked corn and the coop detonates into a white-feathered cyclone of eggs fired faster than bullets. The real ignition arrives at the barn dance: kerosene lamps gutter, fiddles scrape, and Johnny spikes the vanilla ice cream. Age collapses—matrons in calico become coquettes, grandpas shed decades, the floorboards bounce with leap-frog bacchanalia until Harry and the farmer’s daughter vanish in a dust-cloud of elopement, leaving only the echo of stomped boots and the perfume of revved-up desire.
Synopsis
Harry is the farmer's helper, while Johnny is the helper to the helper. Johnny has with him some bottles of "Pepo." A few drops of this wonderful liquid puts speed into anything. They drop some into the sheriff's motorcycle and it dashes away. A few drops in the chicken feed and the hens drop their eggs all over the place. At the barn dance Johnny pours some "Pepo" into the ice cream and the old ladies start flirting with the young men and the old boys shine up to the girls. Then they play leap frog and Harry and the farmer's daughter elope.
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