Please settle a disagreement. This movie had a plot similar to Lil Abner, correct?
There was a pappy that made a tonic that created muscle men out of the mountain hillbillies & the girls had a day that they took their mates but in the end they liked them the way they were. Plot of Lil Abner.
Lil Abner predates Kissin' Cousins by quite some time, as the comic debuted in the mid 1930s.
By the time the movie was made, Lil Abner popularity had peaked, but was still considered iconic Americana.
“Kissing Cousins” is similar to “Li'l Abner” (the movie) only in the respect that they both contain the same hillbilly stereotypes of gun-toting, still-running, revenuer-hating, white-lightening drinking, possum-and-squirrel-eating hicks living in tumble-down shacks in the backwoods mountains. And the screenwriter of “Kissing Cousins” was obviously familiar with the Al Capp comic strip when he inserted a race of man-crazed spinsters chasing after anyone they could catch.
In “Li'l Abner” it only happened once a year during the Sadie Hawking Day Race but it involved every spinster and every bachelor, while in “Kissing Cousins” it was only a certain group of male-bereft spinsters, known as Kittyhawks, who apparently were out chasing after male companions without cease.
Although both films include hillbillies and the US Army in a musical comedy, the plots of the two films are not reslly alike.
It absolutely is. Except the play and film of "Li'l Abner" were fine musical satire. This is so wretchedly bad it is fine camp fun.
The other main plot point in common is that the hillbillies' homes and way of life are to be disrupted by military activities. Dogpatch was going to be a nuclear testing site. This Kitty Hawk place is to get a base. Quite the starting point for bad songs, ridiculous attempts at Southern rustic accents and for Elvis to look unhealthy with blonde hair.
My uncle's girlfriend took me to the drive in to see this when I was six years old. I'm sure I have some repressed trauma from it.
"I slept with you and you're in love with my husband. What the hell am I supposed to do with that?"