Academy Awards, USA 1934
| Nominated Oscar | Best Picture |
| Best Writing, Adaptation Paul Green Sonya Levien |
Fox Film
Directed by Henry King
My rating: 1.5 stars out of 4
IMDb
(Turner Classic Movies)
Country bumpkins travel to the "big city" for the annual state fair. Mom enters her pickles and mince meat while dad babysits his hog. Meanwhile, their naive teenage kids find first love. Daughter Janet Gaynor falls for a fast talking newspaper reporter while son Norman Foster takes up with a sideshow trapeze artist. Both relationships are about as believable as the scenes featuring two pigs talking to each other. There is a modicum of fair atmosphere, but even that is ruined by an over reliance on back projection for almost every scene.
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