"something like he’s a country charismatic bum on the streets who gets spotted by I’m thinking a girl who I’m thinking introduces him to a radio xec who puts him on radio and he starts to spout hobo road anecdotes &^ then starts to get in over his head booze and broads and stuff. But at’s all I remember…none of the poignant stuff you want to relay….."

Well, you've got a lot of that right, but the film is a bit smarter than that. I'll be curious to know what you think once you've had a chance to view the full monty. (So to speak.)

Andy Griffith, for his part, swore after making this film, that he would never again play such a role. It was, in the eyes of many, both the antithesis and the genesis of the classic "Andy Griffith" part.

Given the thematic matter of this film which Andy Griffith himself found distasteful (at least acting in it), I find it ironic that the "classic Andy Griffith part," which at least partially evolved due to this film, is now invoked whenever politicians want to sell us their own particular brand of evil. Which is pretty much all the time.

"Ah'll nevah lie to yuh." "Well, there yuh go again." "Ah feel yore pain." "etc"

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