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Li'l Abner by Melvin Frank
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DVD Cover InformationActor: Howard St. John, Leslie Parrish, Peter Palm?r, Peter Palmer, Stubby Kaye Director: Melvin Frank Brand: PARAMOUNT HOME VIDEO Cinematographer: Daniel L. Fapp Writer: Melvin Frank Editor: Arthur P. Schmidt Producer: Norman Panama Writer: Norman Panama Writer: Al Capp DVD: Region Code 1 Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled) Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Widescreen Picture Format: 1.66:1 Running Time: 114 minutes DVD Release Date: 2005-04-19 Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Studio: Paramount
Movie Reviews of Li'l AbnerMovie Review: Lil Abner Summary: 2 StarsI love the movie especially the music but the dvd freezes every once in a while
Summary of Li'l AbnerLI'L ABNER, the beloved cartoon strip from Al Capp, takes place in the hillbilly town of Dogpatch, which is deemed the most useless community in America. When the city is chosen as a test site for A-bombs, its colorful citizens take up the good fight, with lots of fun and merriment. This is one movie musical that doesn't bother adapting its stage presentation for the big screen: Li'l Abner cheerfully uses brightly colored, patently fake backdrops and stage sets for its mythical setting. And why not? A movie musical based on a cartoon strip is about as far from reality as you can get. Al Capp's legendary comic about the hillbilly denizens of Dogpatch was brought to Broadway by the estimable comedy team Melvin Frank and Norman Panama, who also produced the movie. Along with sampling Capp's world (the pursuit of noncommittal Abner by Daisy Mae on Sadie Hawkins Day is a major plot device), the movie is a goofy record of 1950s attitudes and concerns--in fact, Dogpatch is threatened with destruction when the government wants to use it as an atomic test site. The actors' Broadway delivery has a deadening effect after a while, and some of the makeup is downright weird (think the Whos in the live-action Grinch). Gene de Paul's music is unmemorable, but Johnny Mercer's lyrics provide considerable fun, and the athletic dances are based on Michael Kidd's stage choreography. Plus, the movie honors Capp's eye for impossibly bodacious women by casting Julie Newmar as Stupefyin' Jones and Stella Stevens (her first movie role) as Appassionata Von Climax. --Robert Horton
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