Beef Rings the Bell (Part II) (1960)

★★★★ · Oh! The IRONY! THE IRONY! · Spuzz · 2003-01-10

This is, of course a salute to beef. The film starts out with a dreadful animation of a cow ringing a bell indicating dinner. (GET it? BEEF rings the BELL?) After that comes a wonderful plateau of cows roaming the open range, chewing grass, being herded, chewing grass, being branded. "The cows, soon, go in one direction" the narrator says, and yes thats right.. "To Market". Soon, you're just DREADING where this film is heading. The film slowly builds on that (The narrator seems to know this as well lol) and takes us through the cows being loaded on (Union Pacific!) railcars, being auctioned…