Summary

A story in cartoons by Milt Gross. It is meant to mock the writer's timeless search for "the great American novel". The cartoons are presented with rinkytink piano accompaniment by George Bauer and sound effects, without words or explanation. The tongue-in-cheek melodramatic plot concerns an unscrupulous man from the city and an innocent country girl. 1960. A story in cartoons by Milt Gross. It is meant to mock the writer's timeless search for "the great American novel". This program show the cartoons with rinky-tink piano accompaniment by George Bauer and sound effects, without words or explanation. The tongue-in-cheek melodramatic plot concerns an unscrupulous man from the city and an innocent country girl. 6:15 SCENE 1: Blond girl is caught with a man. Husband throws man out. City slicker comes in. Takes girl to wilds of Alaska on a fur trapping get-rich-quick scheme. She dreams of her lover. Man takes girl to her lover's grave, she weeps and doesn't know there's only a dummy inside the coffin. Meanwhile girl's lover dreams of her and wonders about her whereabouts. City slicker marries the blond girl in her grief. Lover starts tracking them down with a knife in his hand. 4:00 SCENE 2: Girl and city slicker in luxury in NYC. City slicker loses all his money playing the slot machine. Girl evicted wit her 2 babies, becomes a street beggar. She goes to employment agency just missing meeting her lover around the corner. SCENE 3: City slicker marries rich, ugly, old woman. Lover with knife breaks in but is thrown out the window by guard. 3:00 SCENE 4: Girl still looking for job applies as an actress. Does a tryout for producer. Producer persuades the backers to hire her. She is hired…as a cleaning woman. SCENE 5: Incomprehensible 1:25 SCENE 6: Girl becomes a nurse. Man becomes a Bowery bum. Man and the trapper from Alaska who is in pursuit end up in hospital. Girl recognizes her lover. Picks up picture (lover has stolen) showing the rich old dowager saying I love you. Girl broken-hearted leaves the hospital. 5:25 SCENE 7: Lover gets nurse to tell him where the girl (ex-nurse) has gone. She has been dragged back to Alaska by bad man. Girl is tied to tree with her babies by bad man. Lover arrives, is identified as father of the babies by a mole on his ass ( the babies have the same) and the bad man is attacked by Chinese, Indians and frontiersmen. The couple is happily reunited. Produced by John McGiffert, Directed by John Desmond. Writer Joseph Hurley. Air date 4/24/60. 26 mins.