Film Summary CCCXLV (With Love and Kisses)

There's a woman that luxury car driving through the roads of backwater America. She's looking for directions to  New York City and after dealing with assistance amount of ignorant fools. She finally spots a man by the name of Homer. He gives her the right directions before heading home to tune into a radio show. In which one of his songs will be featured. At first he feels pretty happy about the whole thing, that is until at the end when the crooner finish then says that it was him who wrote the song to begin with.

So It's the story of a country bumpkin who knows how to write a song. Apparently he had given the rights to This Crooner in New York who's now claiming it as his own. So he goes over to his local sheriff's office and try to persuade him and the mayor to loan him $50 as travel to New York to deal with this most unfortunate affair.
Now here's the funny bit. He doesn't even want to go there to get his money back, not really. Initially he was just going to go punch the Crooner in the face and head back home.

But he's intersected by one of the crooner's managers. Who looks at him is nothing more than a dumb hick hillbilly trying to cause trouble. So he calls the police and has him thrown into the slammer. Later on the Crooner is informed of this man's presents and immediately heads over to provide bail and take him out to a nice dinner so he can try to convince Homer to sign his song over on contract as to avoid any future problems.
Now initially every thing's going pretty well for the crooner. He hasn't had his lights punched out and he's about to get the legal rights for the song completely written on paper for a mere $200. But unfortunately for him a waiter was overhearing and he has his own nefarious plot. He ''invites'' the crooner into his office where him and a group of his kind and swell friends are.
They convince him that he should sign over his contract to them, otherwise everyone might find out about his Horrible Secret and how he stole a song from a local man across the continent. They also informed him that his fans may not care for him if his nose was 2 inches to the left.

Now while all this is going on Homer is sitting at the table at the front of the restaurant. Where he encounters the manager who would call the police on him earlier. He decides that he wasn't a very nice man to do that and socks him in the jaw. Now Homer is back in jail where he began and he starts to create a new song.
There's a whole whack of Charades that happened here that really aren't worth mentioning. But there is one strange bid Where the drunk man is about to be let out because of bail given to him and by his sister who also happens to be the woman that Homer had seen back in his local town. But before the drunk man leaves he says that he wants his friend to join him. Or that he won't leave without him. Because of a mix-up in which they threw Homer into the showers thinking that he was a drunken idiot who is trying to sing.

As they're having a little conversation the drunk man says to Homer let's give him the 'high sign of the exalted order' in which they snap their fingers put their forearms down to their waist and lift their hands in the air as if to do some tiny Roman salute.

I'm wondering if this is some sort of Union joke or Knights of Columbus deal. All those clubs and committees that people like to join back in the day always had some silly little salute and or speech they would give. It's just confusing at all.

So now we get to the point where Homer has to deal directly with what I thought was a butler. And maybe he is a butler or possibly a waiter. But he's also the runner of this weird crime syndicate. They're going to make their own music for real cheap and give a little of money to Homer. But Homer also needs his cow. I guess the only way he can make music is by having his cow around.

Now that's not even the weirdest pit. One of the Mobsters doesn't even know what a cow is. Now I admit I'm not much for knowing animals, anything outside of a petting zoo is exotic to me. But even I know what a cow is. Heck you can find cows petting zoos. You're the second best thing to pet.


The Homer continues to write songs for the Shady gangsters. That is until a girl he's interested in the one he met New York whose name is Betty informed him that people make millions off of these songs. And that he shouldn't be throwing all his talent away for a few measly $100. She informs him to break away from that local gang and start up a production company with her and her brother.

However the gangsters have there own plot, they're going to kidnap mini (who's the cow) in order to somehow screw of Homer. Though they don't really explain what they're going to do, or how getting rid of the cows going to screw up Homer the guy they need to write songs to make any money.
In fact that's the problem with the last 10 minutes of this whole movie. Things just kind of happen. The cow gets found, Homer breaks away from the gang and nothing is resolved. The gangsters are still out there, the crooner still doing stuff. It's almost as if the film ran out of time and decided ''we'll just end''

Not that any of it really matters. The whole point of the film's to enjoy Musical songs and see some  stand-up gags.
The songs are fun and cute serving a minor Point as to indicate what Homer's going to write next. And the occasional gag kind of works. Though plenty of them don't. It almost feels like a variety show. Something that should have been hosted by Crosby or Bob Hope as they're introducing the next Act.

I'm not sure if it's because the pacing gets better as the film goes on or if I'm just a sucker for that simplistic fun comedy, but I really enjoyed this film. The reviews for this thing on the Web are kind of sub part to bad.
Claiming that the movie doesn't really work and the whole thing has low production. It's not as if they're wrong, this is a simple film but I found myself with a smile on my face enjoying it all the same.

Also this cow has a single horn. Do cows get horns?
I suppose they must this one has one.