Private Snuffy Smith (1942)
1942 · Feature film · 65 min · dir. Edward F. Cline
IT'S BODACIOUS! America's favorite comic strip leaps to hilarious life on the screen...with the peskiest, sassiest varmit ever to wear cacky britches!
- Comedy
Synopsis
Private Snuffy Smith is a 1942 American army comedy film directed by Edward F. Cline and starring Bud Duncan as comic-strip character Snuffy Smith and Edgar Kennedy as his commanding officer. A sequel, Hillbilly Blitzkrieg, was released later in 1942 and also featured Duncan and Kennedy. The comic strip's characters Barney Google and Sparkplug the horse do not appear in the film.
Synopsis from Wikipedia
Details
- Director
- Edward F. Cline
- Writer
- Doncho Hall
- Cinematography
- Marcel Le Picard
- Studio
- Monogram Pictures, Capitol Productions Inc
- Released
- 1942-01-16
- Series
- Snuffy Smith Collection
- Running time
- 65 minutes
Cast & crew
Edward F. Cline Director- Bud Duncan
Edgar Kennedy
Sarah Padden
J. Farrell MacDonald- Doris Linden
Jimmie Dodd- Andria Palmer
Patrick McVey
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★★★ · If you love good clean humor · polvoroso · 2006-08-27
you will like this a lot.compliments the comic strip to the T. If you enjoyed Snuffy in the newspapers, you cant hep but fall in love with this film. Any remake couldn't be better. WELL DESERVING OF FIVE STARS
★★★★ · Sarah Padden sparkles as Loweezie · Nip · 2006-09-25
A great movie? Nah, but I do love it. It's funny enough (about as funny as the comic strip) and the characters are mostly thin, as you'd expect. But then there's Padden's Loweezie. She has depth and poignancy and she's hilarious. The rest of the movie is okay, but she is a joy to watch and listen to.
★★★★ · amazing · revdaddy · 2009-01-05
I made my two nephews, raised on slasher movies, watch this. I caught them laughing several times. After the movie, they both told me how lame this was but asked me the next time they visited if they could watch more like it.
★★★★ · Great Balls O' Fire!! · picfixer · 2010-02-05
Based on the long-running comic strip (1919 - 2001). Perennial moonshiner Snuffy, pursued by revenuers, joins the army for a new pair of kaki pants and tobacco money. Of course, all hell breaks loose. Adding to the nuttiness are Nazi spies and an invisible dog. I didn't expect to like this one, but within a few minutes I was laughing in spite of myself. The diminutive Bud Duncan is a lot of fun as Snuffy, and Sarah Padden is great as his over-sized wife, Lowizi. First as a revenuer, then as a master sergeant, Edgar "slow burn" Kennedy is Snuffy's foil. A ridiculous plot, over-the-top…
