Down Missouri Way

1946
Approved
1h 15m

IMDb RATING

5.1/10

145

YOUR RATING

John Carradine, Eddie Dean, Renee Godfrey, Martha O'Driscoll, and William Wright in Down Missouri Way (1946)

Satire Comedy Musical

When an agricultural professor returns home to the farm with her scientifically-raised mule for a needed rest, they find themselves caught up in a movie being filmed in the Ozarks.When an agricultural professor returns home to the farm with her scientifically-raised mule for a needed rest, they find themselves caught up in a movie being filmed in the Ozarks.When an agricultural professor returns home to the farm with her scientifically-raised mule for a needed rest, they find themselves caught up in a movie being filmed in the Ozarks.

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IMDb RATING

5.1/10

145

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Trivia
The earliest documented telecast of this film in the New York City area occurred Wednesday 30 August 1950 on WATV (Channel 13).

Soundtracks
Old Missouri Hayride
Written by Kim Gannon and Walter Kent
Sung by Eddie Dean

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Review

Featured review

6/10

Everyone Sings But The Mule

Professor Martha O'Driscoll brings her mule to her farm for a vacation, only to find a movie company shooting a picture. Despite the usual number of complications, love blossoms all around.

It's a PRC musical, believe it or not. The problems are numerous, with a script and film that seems to have been edited the way John Ford edited on site when an executive complained he was supposed to have shot six additional pages by this point. * It also has its points, including a decent set of songs, a well-trained mule, John Carradine, Chester Clute, and Roscoe Karns. The details of the nominal plot about the mule rears its head only occasionally, which is all to the good as far as I'm concerned. Still, all in all, it's a rather sweet movie for what was probably conceived as competition to Judy Canova.

* If you don't know the anecdote, Ford is reported to have torn up twelve pages, and announced "There! Now we're six pages ahead!" I imagine he had won at least one of his Oscars by then.