Lay That Rifle Down

Judy Canova's last starring feature has her drudging for her aunt, Jacqueline DeWit at her hotel. She's been boasting of a rich boyfriend, and when she claims he's going to be on a bus in a nearby town, she picks on Robert Lowery. Lowery is agreeable to hoaxing her friends and family. He's actually a con man, and he and partner Robert Burton pull a nice variation on the ring game; Burton goes to town banker Richard Deacon, claims to be a general looking to buy Miss Canova's farm for the government for as much as $50,000, and lets nature take its course.

Miss Canova sings three songs, and there are a couple of nice slapstick sequences under the direction of comedy specialist Charles Lamont. It's pleasant enough, but while Miss Canova would appear in a couple of more films, she was closing down her network radio show, so there would be no multi-media effect. She would appear on television and live shows through 1981, and die two years later at the age of 69.