The girls camp out in the woods for a publicity stunt.The girls camp out in the woods for a publicity stunt.The girls camp out in the woods for a publicity stunt.
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Samuel Adams
- Hermit
- (as Sam Adams)
James C. Morton
- Cop
- (uncredited)
Ronald R. Rondell
- Ambulance Attendant
- (uncredited)
David Sharpe
- Ambulance Attendant
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaPatsy gripes, "Lions, tigers, bears"--a full three years before its more famous usage in "The Wizard Of Oz."
- GoofsThe 1936 calendar pages flipping by to indicate the passage of the time (from June 5 to June 13) have the wrong days of the week for the given dates; e.g., the last calendar page shows June 13, 1936 to be Thursday - it actually was Saturday. The days are correct for 1935, though, suggesting an old calendar was adapted or used for reference.
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A Real Hillbilly Could Have Done Better
Hill-Tillies (1936)
* (out of 4)
The second of two films Patsy Kelly made with Lyda Roberti after the death of her original partner Thelma Todd. In the film the girls are having a rough time finding a job so they decide to come up with a publicity stunt where they go into the woods for ten days without any supplies. Is HILL-TILLIES worth seeing? Only if you want to see if it's worse than the duo's previous film AT SEA ASHORE. It's rather amazing to see how incredibly bad both movies were but if someone held a gun to my head and I was forced to watch one of them again I guess this here was the better of the two. This is mainly do to a skit towards the end of the film where the girl's run into a wild man who has apparently been living in the woods for years and has several imaginary horses. This brief scene gives us a quick laugh and it's pretty much the only reason to see this thing, although hero Jim Thorpe appears briefly here. The rest of the film is one bad joke after another and it's easy to see why this was the final short for Kelly and Roberti. They simply don't have a bit of chemistry but I don't blame them or the studio too much considering they were simply testing the waters trying to come up with a new team. The film is beyond bad as it doesn't contain a single thing that works for it.
* (out of 4)
The second of two films Patsy Kelly made with Lyda Roberti after the death of her original partner Thelma Todd. In the film the girls are having a rough time finding a job so they decide to come up with a publicity stunt where they go into the woods for ten days without any supplies. Is HILL-TILLIES worth seeing? Only if you want to see if it's worse than the duo's previous film AT SEA ASHORE. It's rather amazing to see how incredibly bad both movies were but if someone held a gun to my head and I was forced to watch one of them again I guess this here was the better of the two. This is mainly do to a skit towards the end of the film where the girl's run into a wild man who has apparently been living in the woods for years and has several imaginary horses. This brief scene gives us a quick laugh and it's pretty much the only reason to see this thing, although hero Jim Thorpe appears briefly here. The rest of the film is one bad joke after another and it's easy to see why this was the final short for Kelly and Roberti. They simply don't have a bit of chemistry but I don't blame them or the studio too much considering they were simply testing the waters trying to come up with a new team. The film is beyond bad as it doesn't contain a single thing that works for it.
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- Michael_Elliott
- Jan 19, 2011
Details
- Runtime20 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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