Word: abner
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Abner (Paramount), the Hollywood version of the Broadway version of Al Capp's comic strip, is a great big overblown pink-walled synthetic two-time reCapp. Like all Capp, it is Rabelais for the retarded, but it will probably carry an impressive bundle to the bank...
Written, produced and directed by Norman Panama and Melvin Frank, who took the writing and production credits for the Broadway show, Li'l Abner boasts an appropriate Dogpatchy plot. After a nationwide survey, Dogpatch is declared "the most unnecessary place in these U.S.," and selected as the site of the next A-bomb test. Dogpatch is dramatically saved when Mammy Yokum (Billie Hayes) produces the only surviving specimen of the Yokumberry tree, whose fruit distills a tonic that can make any man as big and strong and beautiful as Li'l Abner (Peter Palmer). Then the plot thickens...
Will the general succeed in this nefarious scheme? Will Evil Eye Fleagle (Al Nesor) perpetrate a Triple Whammy on po' Li'l Abner? Will Appassionata von Climax (Stella Stevens) catch him in the annual Sadie Hawkins Day Race? Will Li'l Abner ackchelly have to (sob!) marry up wif "a female of THUH OPPOSITE SEX," thereby yielding her a half interest in Yokumberry Tonic? And if he does, what will happen to po' Daisy Mae (Leslie Parrish...
Halfback: Ron Burton, 23, Northwestern; 5 ft. 9 in., 180 lbs. Major: education. "Great speed and elusiveness; whenever he carries the ball, he's a threat." Close behind Burton the pros rank Iowa's Bob Jeter ("as fast as you want them") and unsung Abner Haynes of North Texas State ("He's 180 lbs., and he runs...
This attitude, needless to say, is unfortunate. For, like Pogo and Andres Segovia, like Li'l Abner and Beet-hoven's Ninth, generosity is a fine and beautiful thing. What is ten dollars? Two long-play records, three first balcony seats, 700-odd cigarettes, two Elsie's meal tickets. If it were not for the awkward business of writing out a check and deciding whether or not to feel magnanimous, the whole charity affair would be quite painless...