Postby Duncan Edwards » Sun May 01, 2022 2:21 pm
These photos were among several interesting shots of Tina that were taken as publicity for God's Little Acre. Unfortunately not one of those photos has the first thing to do with the movie which is one of those attempts at Southern Gothic that was so in vogue in the time. Patriarch Robert Ryan is kind of a primordial Jed Clampett and isn't bad. I guess they got him to have someone taller (6'5") than Tina. The rest of the casting is just a howl as they are nearly all from New York, including Tina. They've even got Buddy Hackett in there doing comic relief with a very odd South-Brooklyn accent. The entire movie is like nails on a chalkboard to me. Anyhow, for purposes of our fetish, it misses some opportunities by far. Young Tina is a nice underused part of the scenery but that's about it.
It's a dirty job but I got to do it for 27 years. Thank you.