Carolina Cannonball

My most recent inexplicable quest is to track down and view the rarest of the Judy Canova film library. The story starts with the US Military launching a remote controlled atomic missile. German spies intercept the signal and try to control the missile, but their interference causes the missile to crash in the middle of a Nevada ghost town. The spies, led by Sig Rumann, and the US government set out to locate the missing missile.

The only inhabitants of the Nevada ghost town are Judy and her grandpa, played by Andy Clyde. Clyde's grandpa is not too far from his California Carlson role which graced many Hopalong Cassidy features. Judy and Andy run a small train shuttle that connects to the big city. The missile lands right on their train's line causing their sleepy existence to be disturbed by US agents and foreign spies.

One of the delights of the film for me was the teaming of Canova and Clyde which worked very well together. Their scenes are where the film really glides. It slows down during the romantic parts when a US agent (Ross Elliott) shows up to locate the missile and the German spies. The spy story is really much nonsense but leave it to old professionals Canova, Clyde and Rumann to pull it off.