Li'l Abner
by Melvin Frank
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Actor: Howard St. John, Leslie Parrish, Peter Palm?r, Peter Palmer, Stubby KayeDirector: Melvin Frank
Brand: PALMER/PARRISH
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, 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 Abner
Movie Review: Lil Abner for my wife's birthday!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
We both enjoyed the original TV version long years when we were young and even before we met. So for her birthday (age censored) I decided to buy this movie. The vendor shipped promptly and gave us excellent service. I recommend both the movie and the seller. Amazon meets most of my shopping needs without leaving my home.
Summary of Li'l Abner
LI'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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