God's Little Acre (1958)
Directed by Anthony Mann / William Keighley
Genres - Drama, Language & Literature, Romance |
Sub-Genres - Melodrama |
Release Date - Aug 13, 1958 (USA - Unknown) |
Run Time - 112 min. |
Countries - United States |
MPAA Rating - NR
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Synopsis by Hal Erickson
Erskine Caldwell's steamy novel God's Little Acre was given a film adaptation in 1958. A heavily grayed-up Robert Ryan plays Ty Ty Walden, the patriarch of a slovenly backwoods family. As Ty Ty digs around his farm in search of gold (which he has yet to find), his son in law Bill Thompson (Aldo Ray) carries on an adulterous affair with the sluttish Griselda (Tina Louise). Comedy relief is provided by the dimwitted Pluto (Buddy Hackett). Others in the cast include future TV stars Jack Lord as Buck Walden and Michael Landon as Ty Ty's albino farmhand. A flop when first released, God's Little Acre made back its cost on the TV rental circuit; today, it is in the public domain, available to everyone, even the "under 18s" who were prohibited from seeing it back in 1958.
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backwoods, extramarital-affair, family, gold, prospector