SERIOUSLY. This is what the crap Hollywood still puts out?

Watch something else. There are very few redeeming qualities to this film.

The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

Georgia cotton farmer Robert Ryan (as Ty Ty Walden) has neglected his crop due to digging numerous holes in his land, searching for a fortune in gold supposedly buried by his grandfather. After fifteen years of digging, Mr. Ryan has not found the gold. After two months of digging, the latest hole seems fruitless. Helping during the opening scene are Ryan's sons Jack Lord (as Buck) and Vic Morrow (as Shaw). Mr. Lord is married to tempting Tina Louise (as Griselda). Making her movie debut, Ms. Louise is highly arousing. Ordering some great "bend over" camera angles, director Anthony Mann and his team offer a generous look up and down Louise's beautiful bosom, especially during her first scenes...Louise brings out the beast in brother-in-law Aldo Ray (as Will Thompson), who is suffering due to his cotton plant closing. Also involved in the story is rotund Buddy Hackett (as Pluto), who is running for Sheriff and wants to be part of the family by marrying Ryan's nubile daughter Fay Spain (as "Darlin'" Jill). Believing all-white albinos have magical powers, Mr. Hackett suggests Ryan use Michael Landon (as Dave Dawson) to find where his grandfather's gold is buried. Looking more like a peroxide blond than an albino, Mr. Landon leads the family to an area Ryan has dubbed "God's Little Acre". Landon also finds himself on top of Hackett's girl. Passions involving even more family members lead to a big climax...****** God's Little Acre (8/13/58) Anthony Mann ~ Robert Ryan, Aldo Ray, Tina Louise, Buddy Hackett

Oh what miserable characters. Everyone in this story is unhappy, and desperate for something: love, sex, a job, votes. But mostly, they're desperate for change.Ty Ty (Robert Ryan), a desperately poor dirt farmer in rural Georgia, digs holes on his property looking for gold supposedly buried by an ancestor. Ty Ty, a religious man, dedicates a small area of his property to God, unless that small area happens to be where the gold is buried; in which case he will re-locate God's parcel of land somewhere else, and keep the gold for himself.His five grown children, a mix of male hicks and trashy vixens, are as miserable and desperate as Ty Ty. They and their spouses fight among themselves over every little thing, including Ty Ty's delusional behavior. In one scene toward the end, Ty Ty tells his kids: "God didn't put us here to scrap and fight each other all the time ... I've tried all my life to keep a peaceful family ... if you'd just stop fightin'. To which one of his sons barks out: "You talk like an old fool". Later, Ty Ty angrily responds in a preachy tone: "If I was you, when I went to bed tonight, I'd get down on my knees and ... try talking to God a little."The script's plot is too drawn-out, given the premise; and the structure is terrible. Ty Ty is presumably the script's protagonist. Yet, a son-in-law named Bill (Aldo Ray) carries many of the scenes. Both dialogue and acting are dreadfully overwrought. The ending seems tacked on.The film's B&W lighting is probably the best element; it's quite good. Compared to other performances, I thought Buddy Hackett gave a pleasantly restrained performance.If you like overwrought, melodramatic stories with lots of talk, and centered around ignorant Southern hillbillies, this is the film for you.

God's Little Acre - 1958 Anthony Mann flick about a group of hillbillies in Georgia.Robert Ryan is the aw-shucks gold digging patriarch of this mess of a family.This southern melodrama has kidnapping,adultery,albino(played by Michael Landon) and Tina Louise's cleavage.Picture a mix of Gomer Pyle,Dukes of Hazard & I don't know um grits- then you have this odd duck of a movie.Jack Lord,Buddy Hackett,Aldo Ray & Vic Morrow tear up the scenery in this share-cropper soap opera.This movie feels like an overgrown black and white cartoon portrayal of the south.I got this on the cheap- C-The DVD is a good transfer-- but has no extrasnot even a trailer

Apparently, when "God's Little Acre" first came out, much of it was cut for the theatrical release. Watching the unedited version, one can see why (needless to say, it's all pretty tame to us in the 21st century). Part of it is Tina Louise's very presence - I mean, what man wouldn't want to be stranded on an island with Ginger Grant? - but there's also a scene where Buddy Hackett works a pump for a woman in a bathtub (if that scene isn't a double entendre, then I don't know what is!).As for the movie itself, this story of a Georgia farmer (Robert Ryan) getting convinced that thar's gold in them thar holes in his garden does quite well. The idea of him tearing up his garden is an effective parallel for how the family gets torn up in the process. As for his friendship with the African-American guy, it's probably debatable whether they were sugar-coating race relations, or if they were encouraging tolerance. There could even be debates about how the movie portrays the South in general (the characters do come across as hicks).But overall, I recommend this flick. Usually, it would sort of weaken the movie to know that some of the cast members later became famous on TV shows - especially since one was known for seducing romantically incompetent men on a certain island - but they all do very well here. This is certainly a movie worth seeing. And the theme song will probably get stuck in your head. Also starring Aldo Ray, Jack Lord, Fay Spain, Vic Morrow and Michael Landon.