The Terror of Tiny town
There is a penguin in the barber shop. I'm not sure what that's about: did penguins mean something for the audience in 1938? A shout-out to Admiral Byrd, perhaps?
I watched it all. After the first twenty minutes I found myself watching not camp but ... a film that was not half-bad. Yeah, some of the actors are just reading lines but some are not: 'Little Billy' Rhodes is a serviceable Black Hat, Charles Becker does righteous service as comic relief and Yvonne Moray as the Love Interest - man if that chick had been 5'5 she'd be right up there with Garbo and Mae West.
This is a pretty typical western except that everyone in it is a little person. I don’t find midgets funny in and of themselves. But the idea of a whole wild west town full of them is bizarre and interesting.As Ryan said, it's a typical oater from that era: white hats, black hats, horses, a range war etc. The actors are midgets, the horses are ponies and the actors walk under the saloon doors, not through them.
There is a penguin in the barber shop. I'm not sure what that's about: did penguins mean something for the audience in 1938? A shout-out to Admiral Byrd, perhaps?
I watched it all. After the first twenty minutes I found myself watching not camp but ... a film that was not half-bad. Yeah, some of the actors are just reading lines but some are not: 'Little Billy' Rhodes is a serviceable Black Hat, Charles Becker does righteous service as comic relief and Yvonne Moray as the Love Interest - man if that chick had been 5'5 she'd be right up there with Garbo and Mae West.
