Aaron Slick from Punkin Crick

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name = Aaron Slick from Punkin Crick


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director = Claude Binyon
producer = William Perlberg
George Seaton
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starring = Alan Young
Dinah Shore
Adele Jergens
Robert Merrill
Minerva Urecal
Martha Stewart
Veda Ann Borg
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cinematography = Charles Lang
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distributor = Paramount Pictures
released = 1952
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imdb_id = 0044319

"Aaron Slick from Punkin Crick" was a 1952 'hillbilly' movie made by Paramount Pictures, directed by Claude Binyon and produced by William Perlberg and George Seaton. It is based on a 1919 play by Walter Benjamin Hare. The cinematography was by Charles Lang and the costume design by Edith Head.

The film stars Alan Young, Dinah Shore, Adele Jergens, Robert Merrill, Minerva Urecal, Martha Stewart (not to be confused with Martha Stewart, television host and home-decorating mogul), and Veda Ann Borg.

It is a musical of a dreamy farm widow, played by Shore, obsessed with moving to the city. She is courted by shy-bumpkin neighbor (Young), and is taken by on-the-lam crooks (Merrill and Jergens).

Plot

Country bumpkin Aaron Slick (Alan Young) has been unsuccessfully courting pretty young widow Josie Beery (Dinah Shore) for years. Josie yearns for a fling in the big city. Bill Merridew (Robert Merrill) and his "kissing cousin" Gladys (Adele Jergens) are stars, in a relative sense, of a touring tent show. With $20,000 from a crooked deal stashed in their trunk, they stop at Josie's farm. Merridew, actually hiding out, thinks there is oil on the farm and Aaron, knowing otherwise, tricks him into buying the farm for a large sum. Josie takes the money and runs to Chicago, with Merridew, realizing he was tricked, in hot pursuit. Aaron arrives in time to keep Josie from letting Merridew "invest" her money.

Cast

*Alan Young ... Aaron Slick
*Dinah Shore ... Josie Berry
*Robert Merrill ... Bill Merridew
*Adele Jergens ... Gladys
*Minerva Urecal ... Mrs. Peabody
*Martha Stewart ... Soubrette
*Fritz Feld ... Headwaiter
*Veda Ann Borg ... Girl in red
*Chick Chandler ... Pitchman