Word: hillbillyism
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Source material was abandoned when Hollywood set out to put "Tobacco Road" on celluloid. Gone entirely is the sociological message about hillbilly living conditions which has sent many metropolitan and rural audiences home with rotating intestines and a sincere wish that no one had even brought up the matter. Gone...
People who still think of W. Lee O'Daniel as "Pass the Biscuits, Pappy" are way behind the times. Direct, unpredictable, religious, forever outsmarting the politicos by his simplicity, the Governor of Texas has become the State's most popular officeholder. He is passionately Texan as only a...
But somehow a Mack Sennett disciple, perhaps Buster Keaton, was given the job of re-writing the script for the screen. The resultant story had the old name and the old characters, but a somewhat newer approach to the problems of the tenant farmer. Slim Summerville ended up in one...
Kentucky Hillbilly Jesse Stuart (Man with a Bull-Tongue Plow, Trees of Heaven) is something of a Professional American. It shows in his tendency to machine-gun a page with overlabored dialect, and to indulge a special fondness for plants, farming terms and place names. It is an unlucky affectation...
Nearly all of the 21 stories in Men of the Mountains are self-consciously rural, but nearly all are good. Some are simple drawls picked up around the place-a pig that sucked cows and escaped butchery for a vaudeville career, a 14-year courtship trustrated by moonshine, an unbeatable...