The main reason for my enjoying this flick is the ending. I was feeling a bit emotional today and was happy with the outcome of the film. I actually sat through all those songs that were performed throughout the film (and I detest most musical stuff). I think the best facet of this film was Louise Fazenda. She just tickled me with the way she presented herself and she was big in Mack Sennet films of yore. She just did everything asked of her without any problems. Bogie seemed totally our of school here, being pushed around physically and really over acting some of his situations. One the whole, for 1938, it could see why some people would see this to escape their every day drudge. I just finished reading a bio of Bogart and felt that he was just thrown in because Warner Bros. could do so. He showed up, did his shtick and went home.

This odd little comedy is perhaps best-known for star Humphrey Bogart's personal put-down as his worst film – and is, therefore, essential viewing for fans! In the same vein, having once suggested that only the 'phonies' liked BEAT THE DEVIL (1953), another film Bogie was disappointed by, I'd venture to say that only Ozarks and yokels will enjoy SWING YOUR LADY...In any case, it's hard to reconcile the fact that the film emerged from Warner Bros., who made such classic 'social conscience' dramas as THE LIFE OF EMILE ZOLA (1937) and ANGELS WITH DIRTY FACES (1938) around this same time! It's certainly embarrassing to watch – containing a lethal combination of interminable musical numbers and equally unbearable cornball folksiness – but the supporting characters (Nat Pendleton, Frank McHugh and Allen Jenkins) and especially the climactic wrestling bout (although the film doesn't go through with its novelty idea of a male/female confrontation!) provide some undeniably amusing moments along the way. Clearly a "B" effort, made quickly and on the cheap (in fact, 6 Bogart films were released in 1938!), the film is one of only a handful of comedies he appeared in – none of them very successful

This film is cute and humorous.There are two reasons that this film is derided by the comments and the ratings.The first is that people believe that Bogart should not have been in it.The second is that it is a hillbilly film.If Bogart had not been in this film the rating would be 3 or 4 points higher.In most cases, an actor who looks out of place when out of his genre is considered to be a bad actor.In this case, since it is Bogart, the film is blamed instead.It is suggested that the acting is poor. It is not.Most of these actors are experienced and their acting is just as good as always.The same actors in other Bogart films are always considered to have give good performances, as they did in this film.The Weavers were not actors but did their hillbilly act for many years.They were in quite a few films and were very popular.My mother saw them in 1951 in Washington D.C. on a class trip.Most people today just believe that they are above hillbilly humor.It is called political correctness.Give this film a shot.Ignore the fact that Bogart is in it and enjoy.

Wrestling manager Humphrey Bogart is stranded with his wrestler, Nat Pendleton, and the rest of the entourage, Frank McHugh and Allen Jenkins in some Hooterville like town in the Ozarks. The boys are down and out and Bogey wants to scare up a match for some traveling money.He meets up with Amazonian blacksmith Louise Fazenda and arranges a match, but Pendleton and Fazenda fall in love and that plan goes awry. Not to worry because Fazenda has some gargantuan guy who's been a-courtin' her and he's out of joint. So the match is Pendleton and Daniel Boone Savage.Bogart said it to all who'd listen that he thought this was his worst feature film. I can certainly see why he thought so. He really looks so uncomfortable even in a set supposed to resemble hillbilly heaven.My guess is that the Warner Brothers were trying to get to a different audience. They were known as the urban studio in the Thirties and concentrated on a product geared to that audience. Other than Dick Foran B westerns a whole market was being untapped.I'm sure this must have been offered to Edward G. Robinson and James Cagney before Bogey. He wasn't a big star then so this kind of material could be fluffed off on him.So we've got Sam Spade in Hooterville along with a lot of hillbilly music and even a brief role by the 40th President of the United States as a reporter. For die hard Bogey fans only.