adaptation of a hit musical base on a comic strip . it about a tiny town call dogpatch and it various strange inhabitant . chief among them be strong and tall and incredibly handsome lil abner ( peter palmer ) and incredibly beautiful daisy mae ( leslie parrish ) . there be various plot fly around but basically daisy mae be in love with lil abner and want to marry him . but he keep stop short of it and doesn not know why . there also various other character that have name like earthquake mcgoon and marryin sam . this be one of the few movie shoot in a widescreen process call vistavision . that be a great idea because there be some huge musical number that completely fill the wide screen . the dance be colorful and ( to put it mildly ) energetic . the song be all pretty good with some very clever lyric . in fact all the character introduce themselves by sing to the audience . some people may enjoy the fact that all the young woman here be in great shape and wear very revealing costume . we also have a sequence with some muscular handsome men be show only wear short . cheesecake and beefcake . however there be drawback here . palmer and parrish be both incredibly beautiful people and can sing and dance . but not act . palmer acting be incredibly wooden parrish wasn not much well . everybody else overact to a large degree . the plot be pretty stupid and full of corny humor . a little corny humor go a long way and and at two hour and it get annoy . still this be worth see for the colorful set and costume and the song and the incredible dance number . also jerry lewis do a ( thankfully ) brief cameo . also look for valerie harper and beth howland a two of the woman who have husband at the end .