Review of God's Little Acre

I love Anthony Mann and Robert Ryan is somewhere in the top three of my all time favorites male actors, so I watched this last night on demand. All I could think of was "over the top", "You have got to be kidding me", etc. As preposterous as this movie was to me, the reviews from people who take this movie seriously is even more so. I thought that I was watching a black and white cartoon. I agree with the reviewer who felt that the attempt of the movie's second half to switch to "Tennessee Williams mode" made it feel schizoid. This also weakens the argument of some reviewers who feel this movie is a satire because it switches to a drama. "Entertaining," does not necessarily equal good, and like a train wreck, I had to watch this movie to its satisfactory ending. Satisfactory ending because it was over!

Buddy Hackett as a candidate for Sheriff? Yeah, maybe in Brooklyn! Each character seemed on the verge of laughing out loud at the absurdity of their actions and dialog, and the plot had more holes in it than the lawn around God's Little Acre. In a word, embarrassing!