Originally part of the movie Make Mine Music, this cartoon was released later on its own as a theatrical short. The plot is about a feud between two mountain families, the Martins and the Coys (stand-ins for the Hatfields and McCoys). Eventually a boy from one side and a girl from the other fall in love. It's narrated through song by the King's Men group. It's a fun, lively cartoon with a cute ending. Unfortunately, it's also a cartoon that has become a victim of politically correct censorship due to it being full of guns and possibly (though not most likely) its depictions of Appalachian people. Censorship is the weapon of cowards and it seems everybody's armed these days. Hopefully you can look past the ignorance of Disney and the crybabies who complain about these things, find this fine old cartoon, and enjoy it in the spirit it was created in.
Review of The Martins and the Coys
The Martins and the Coys
(1946)
Fun but liking it will make you a bad person (or some such nonsense)
3 October 2014