Directed by Robert Woodburn.
Co-scripted by Robert Altman after a brief sojourn as a Hollywood screenwriter, and produced a year before The Delinquents (1957), this regional independent feature is a bargain-basement backstage musical that puts the corn in cornpone. Country-western crooner Jerry Wallace gleefully hosts the "Pinwhistle Popcorn Hour"—until he discovers that the TV program is a corrupt ad man’s scheme to liquidate the sponsor. Produced in Kansas City by a cast and crew of Calvin Company veterans, Corn's-A-Poppin' perhaps reveals more about Altman's milieu in Kansas City than about his still-cherished Hollywood ambitions.
Crest Productions, Inc. Producer: Elmer C. Rhoden, Jr. Screenwriter: Robert Altman, Robert Woodburn. Cinematographer: Robert Woodburn. Editor: Carl Pierson. Cast: Jerry Wallace, Pat McReynolds, Little Cora Rice, James Lantz, Keith Painton, Hobie Shepp and the Cowtown Wranglers.
35mm, b/w, 58 min.
