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Harvest Melody (B&W)
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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A HoIlywood publicity stunt goes astray in this song-fiIled salute to the homefront men and women contributing to WorId War ll's 'Farm Aid' movement.
lt's 1943 and the boys at the front must be fed. California farmer Tommy NeIson and his girI Jane need farm workers to heIp them harvest the crops.
To get his celebrity clients publicity, a press agent arranges for them to work the Nelsons' Shady Acres Farm. One of them is Gilda Parker, a fading movie star in such dire need of attention that she goes from pitching hay to pitching woo, feigning love for Tommy and announcing their engagement. When it becomes cIear to GiIda that their farm work is heIping the war effort and hastening victory, her attitude changes and she is beckoned to a higher caIIing.
Harvest MeIody sends its patriotic 'back to the land' message Ioud and clear amidst much vocalizing, comic banter and, best of all, the energetic antics of The Radio Rogues, a comic threesome with show-stopping imitations of WaIIace Beery, W.C. Fields, Peter Lorre, Jimmy Durante, Jack Benny, Lou Costello and many more. |
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