It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

I have absolutely never seen anything like this movie before. You have to see this movie.

The movie's not perfect, but it sticks the landing of its message. It was engaging - thrilling at times - and I personally thought it was a great time.

Worth seeing just to witness how winsome it is.

I'm From Arkansas is what is is, a lowbudget "B" ("C", really) comedy-musical clearly made for rural southern audiences and likely not seen that much outside of that region. Hillbilly bed-and-board owner Maude Eburne's prized pig manages to knock out eighteen young-uns in one pregnancy that manages to become novelty news across the country (read the headlines, one is a good joke in reference to the smash comedy The Miracle of Morgan Creek, released earlier that year). A gregarious manager of a small-time singing act decides to bring the girls down to Arkansas on the presumption they can somehow get tied into the spotlight. Brassy Iris Adrian is the most cynical of the gals and when she mistakes Bruce Bennett (a major radio bandleader back in his hometown for a vacation) for a local rube, he decides to milk it and play the hick while romancing her.Slim Summerville starred or was featured in scores of rural comedies for over a decade when this film was released, his earlier ones were for the major studios and had bigger budgets. Near the end of his career (he passed away in 1946), he is top-billed but has less screen time than either Bennett (surprisingly billed fourth when he was only a few years before considered possible major star material) or the always enjoyable Ms. Adrian, in the main lead, and the only truly starring role I can recall seeing her in (her specialty was snappy costarring small parts, even bits). Maude Eburne is a delight as always as "Ma" (one surprise later plot turn is Summerville's ardent pursuit of Eburne in marriage, he's always on her property so probably the major viewers presumed they were a long-married couple). Country music great Jimmy Wakely has a few nice numbers (including the legendary hit "You are My Sunshine" made famous by another Jimmy, Jimmie Davis), 50's pop star Mary Ford is in Wakely's girl group, and country star Merle Travis can be spotted in Bennett's band. Not a great comedy by any means, but a pleasant time killer.

Wacky Petticoat Junction type movie now in public domain.Townsfolk all move slow.Esmeralda the town pig just gave birth to a slew of liberals.Not sure how many cuz no one can count.We even get to see the Pathe chicken for a minute! Huh? What's that doing there? Anyway the pig gets press all over the globe.A show producer reads about it and wants some of the action.He takes the troupe to Arkansas.The plan is to find out what made the pig spawn so many liberal.Craziness ensues.It's a very watchable movie that could never be made today.

Imagine a film that is like "Hee-Haw", "The Beverly Hillbillies", "Li'l Abner" and you put them together....along with yodeling!! Talk about a recipe for a migraine!! Despite being a public domain film that is free to download, watching this film is no bargain!! The film begins with some pig (the animal, I mean) having a litter of 18 piglets. Well, the nation goes nuts about this--after all, being 1944 there isn't much in the news anyway...except maybe WWII!!! In a contrived plot, a leader of a female band takes his troupe to Arkansas to cash in on the hype about the pigs. But in this one-horse town, the only fun is another band that just happens to be passing through as well! But the all-male band pretends to just be locals. Why? Because it's in the script. And when the two bands get together it's yodeling, Roy Rogers style music, ventriloquism(!) and lots of corn-ball humor. Nowdon't get me wrong--I am not against the South or Mountain folk--just terrifically one-dimensional and silly portrayals of them. And it doesn't get much more silly and one-dimensional than this, as the film manages to be at least as bad as the infamous "Swing Your Lady"--a film that made it to the "Fifty Worst Movies" book! Not good and I film I won't recommend unless you are the type who thinks Larry the Cableguy is too sophisticated!

People flock to a small Arkansas town after a prize pig delivers another huge litter of young. Much music and some humor results.Think Petticoat Junction and Green Acres or Hee Haw and then go even more rural and backward. This is a real hillbilly comedy where all of the people in the town look like your stereotypical hillbillies with the hats and the beards. Its a Snuffy Smith cartoon brought to life, only more so (Actually Snuffy had two live action films made about him). Amusing to a point, the problem for me was that the film is almost a steady stream of country music. Don't get me wrong I like country music, but there is so much of it here that there really isn't a plot so much as spoken passages to get you to the next musical number. The result is everyone is a cliché of one sort or another, simply because its the easiest way of telling who anyone is. The jokes which are one liners or arise out of the clichés are okay, but very few of them are laugh out loud funny since many are also forms of ones we've heard before.Can you tell I'm not a fan? Your tolerance for low brow countrified jokes and "constant" country music performances will determine your mileage.