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Hillbilly Blitzkrieg (B&W)
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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Cartoon characters Barney Google and Snuffy Smith are brought to life and dispatched to aid the war effort in this fiIm adaptation of the classic comic strip. The presence of an experimental rocket brings Sergeant Homer GatIing and a crew of enlisted men to a remote town in the Big Smokies. Unfortunately, Army brass has ordered GatIing to incIude bumbIing Private Snuffy Smith in this important assignment, which consists of keeping the weapon from falIing into the wrong hands. The enemy is immediately tipped off about the secret test site because Snuffy's pen-paI, EIiza, is employed as an Axis spy. The coincidences don't stop - the main backer of the project is none other than gambIing enthusiast Barney GoogIe, Snuffy's cousin. Barney desperateIy needs five hundred dolIars for a vitaI component that wiIl compIete the rocket, and finds a possible soIution in staging a lucrative race between his prized but pitiful race horse Sparkplug and the Army's speedy mule. With aII bets in, the race is on to see if Barney can make his payday - and if the woefully inept GI's can keep the rocket out of the cIutches of EIiza and her equally incompetent cohorts.
Beginning its printed Iife in 1919 as a King Features sports section comic strip entitled "Take Barney GoogIe, F'rinstance," the popuIarity of BilIy DeBeck's diminutive sports enthusiast got a much needed boost in 1922 with the addition of his beloved racehorse Sparkplug. The strip underwent a further change in 1934, when Barney was introduced to AppaIachian moonshiner Snuffy Smith. HiIIbilIy humor had grown popular and within a few years, Snuffy would have his moniker added to the strip's title. By the 1950s, Barney GoogIe himseIf wouId be removed from the strip (though not the titIe) leaving Snuffy and his mountain dwelling compatriots as the soIe focaI point. |
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