Scudda Hoo! Scudda Hay!

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Movie
Original title Scudda Hoo! Scudda Hay!
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1948
length 95 minutes
Rod
Director F. Hugh Herbert
script F. Hugh Herbert
production Walter Morosco
music Cyril J. Mockridge
camera Ernest Palmer
cut J. Watson Webb Jr.
occupation

Scudda Hoo! Scudda Hay! is an American comedy film from 1948. The literary film adaptation is based on the novel by George Agnew Chamberlain . The main roles are played by Lon McCallister and June Haver . The words of the title are commands to the animals for left and right, comparable with " Hü " and "Hott".

action

Competing stepbrothers Daniel, called Snug, and Stretch live on a farm in the midwestern United States . When Snug's father leaves the family to go to sea, Snug takes a job as an assistant to the neighboring farmers Roarer McGill and Tony Maule. He falls in love with Roarer's flirtatious daughter Rad, who initially shows little interest in the uncouth fellow. To supplement his income, he buys two stubborn mules on credit. His envious stepbrother, Stretch, tries to harm the animals, but Snug is able to prevent it at the last moment. Snug inherits the family farm from his father, who died at sea. On a later occasion, he can use the mules to free Roarer, who is stuck with the tractor in the swamp. Roarer then gives his consent to the marriage of his daughter Rad.

Remarks

Scudda Hoo! Scudda Hay! was an insignificant Technicolor film . Bosley Crowther wrote in his review in the New York Times that the plot, which revolves around two mules and is set in a rural idyll, is not very exciting. The acting of Walter Brennan as a drinker and June Haver as a pretty country girl are entertaining, but the tirades of the other actors are exaggeratedly theatrical. Donald Spoto described the story as boring and without punchlines. The provincial-sounding title was renamed Summer Lightning by the English distributor .

The film was the debut of 21-year-old young actress Marilyn Monroe , who plays a high school girl in it. Also in 1947, Monroe's second film was made, the drama Dangerous Years (Engl .: Dangerous Years). That film came before Scudda Hoo! Scudda Hay! in theaters that same year, but flopped at the box office. The management of the film studio 20th Century Fox had offered Marilyn Monroe only a cautious one-year contract. When the debacle over Dangerous Years loomed and the producers realized that the young actress would not make the film any more successful either, they decided to cut the film. Almost all scenes with Marilyn Monroe, in which she can be seen canoeing, have been cut out. Only one scene of about four seconds in which she greets the leading actress June Haver with a polite "Hi Rad" after going to church on Sunday remained in the film. Her name was no longer mentioned in the credits. Neither film earned her or the producer fame, and in August 1947 the studio failed to renew Marilyn Monroe's contract.

A few years later, Marilyn Monroe became a star. However, 20th Century Fox was no longer able to benefit from this in retrospect. The opportunity to bring the film , which has meanwhile been renamed Summer Lightning , to the cinemas again in a new version and with special emphasis on Monroe's part, was not given. The scenes with her that had been cut out had long since been thrown away.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Scudda Hoo! Scudda Hay! (1948). Letter synopsis . In: TCM. Turner Classic Movies . Retrieved June 16, 2013.
  2. ↑ Bosley Crowther: 'Scudda-Hoo! Scudda-Hay! ' Fox Film on Farm Life, Arrives at Roxy - McCallister Stars . In: The New York Times . April 15, 1948, accessed December 19, 2013.
  3. ^ A b Donald Spoto: Marilyn Monroe. The biography . Heyne, Munich 1993, ISBN 3-453-06919-6 , p. 121.