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Best movie ever!
Kirandeep Yoder
The joyful confection is coated in a sparkly gloss, bright enough to gleam from the darkest, most cynical corners.
Deanna
There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.
eaglestar78
Red and black and white abstract painting I am trying to identify the art style and the name of the artist
George Redding
It seemed that, as the saying goes, that if you saw it once you saw it a million times, and I feel that the show was more stupid as the years went along. I was definitely impressed, I will say, with the veteran actor Eddie Albert (who played Jeff Douglas) and the appealing actress Eva Gabor, who played his wife who in the series was a high society lady from New York, did a good turn at her role. The other actors were there for decorative purposes only. The basic story line: a man goes to New York to study law and there meets the fashionable lady from the Big Apple itself whom he marries before they return to his dystopic hometown Hooterville, a corny farce of a country town. Think about the stupidity of the thing: when the telephone rang someone there had to step outside on the phone pole to answer it. And too, the county agent, (played by Alvy Moore) literally could not remember one thing to the next when anyone was speaking to him. Pat Buttram, (Gene Autry's sidekick from back in the '30's)tried to sell Eb a coat for that boy who was planning to go to college (though Eb ended up not going); the coat was an anachronism: it was a raccoon-collared coat for boys who went to college in the twenties. And too, far more ridiculous than that, the pig Arnold Ziffel was trying to be a movie star in Hollywood! REALLY! Nominally it was a comedy, but at the same time it was an insult to people's intelligence. It was an absurdity replete with a multitude of far too many groaners, and I personally feel that that is being diplomatic to say that.
ruffy-43-99630
Hands Down, the best show, comedy or otherwise, ever on TV. Subtle comedy that many just "don't get" need a certain sense of humor to really appreciate the sheer genius of writing and acting. Oliver is so surrounded by nuts he begins to wonder if he's the one who is nuts and everybody else is 'normal'. Eva Gabor has a real-life sense of humor previously unknown and brought to life. Frank Cady as Sam Drucker cannot be praised enough, Tom Lester as Eb were also so very very good at their roles driving Oliver to the point of most people run screaming pulling out their hair, and at the risk of leaving anybody out, not one actor/actress failed in what the writers and directors wanted, maybe even improvising. No show has ever given as many belly-laughs to tears.
Harv Spangle
I just got off of the IMDb message board for Green Acres where there is an ongoing debate about which state Hooterville is supposed to be located in. All kinds of hints were apparently spun out during the show --- from Sam Drucker mentioning that the state capital was Springfield to the number of connecting flights from Hooterville to Chicago to pointing to series creator Paul Hennings' Ozark roots and the presumed locale of Petticoat Junction. Some think then that Hooterville must be somewhere in the Illinois or Missouri sticks. Others back their way through what they suppose to be the origins of the Beverly Hillbillies and think it must be somewhere in Tennessee and even a few others point out that some of the place names used on the show can be found in central California -- which would explain the 81 degree Christmas temperatures experienced one year in Hooterville. Some of the posters on the board who harbor more sensitive, philosophical tendencies are eager to persuade that Hooterville isn't in any state in the U.S.-but is only a state of mind. One especially keen minded poster even carries this metaphysical exercise to the extreme by pointing out that Hooterville exists only on a Hollywood sound stage and no where else. I just can't buy that though.I spent a lot of time as a kid in the late sixties and early seventies in Southern Illinois and Missouri. Everything I see on Green Acres whether placed there by the producers by accident or by design -- from the opening credits aerial shots -- to the Douglas homeplace with its rusting farm machinery in the yard remind me of that part of the country.Rod Serling once introduced an episode of the Twilight Zone (The Last Rites Of Jeff Myrtlebank) by describing the setting as "the Midwest...... the southern most part of the Midwest." It's a very intelligent distinction to be made. Once you cross I-70 in Southern Illinois you have crossed a border of sorts. You are still in the Midwest to be sure, but in this region the accents stretch out just a bit. When you hear Tom Lester's (Eb) Missisippi accent or Pat Buttram's (Mr Haney)twangy patter on the show you are hearing a voice not that far off from what you would find in any small town off the road in Southern Illinois or Missouri. But it's still the Midwest and not the "real" South. Make no mistake about that.Green Acres, as I remember it, was a big hit among my Southern Illinois relatives back in the late sixties. They loved the show--but the question is why? My Uncle Richard and Aunt Rosalie were not great connoisseurs of absurdist, self referential humour. If you pointed out to them that this was one of the first shows on TV to "break down the 4th wall" they would have slapped themselves silly trying to figure out what you were talking about. They loved this show simply because the it bore some resemblance to the world that they lived in. Nothing else on TV then or even up till now offers such a view of that part of rural America.
