oscaralbert Review of Claudelle Inglish

Claudelle Inglish (1961)

"The only thing I own is that old shovel . . . "

[7/10 · 20 April 2021]

. . . laments the beleaguered tenant farmer Pa of CLAUDELLE INGLISH. This story allows the always eponymous Warner Bros. Seers to warn America that our core institution of the family farm is dead, that outsiders like "Rip" are going to run down half of us with their Fat Cat Rich People Road Hog vehicles and that gun violence will rub out most of the rest of us, which is how title character Ms. English herself bites the dust. Our few survivors will be left with little more than spades to bury the dead, warn the prophetic prognosticators of Warner. These clairvoyants caution that in this End Time wanton wenches will rule the roost, eschewing marriage and home-making in favor of joy rides, lovers' lanes and general harlotry. As hellfire reigns down from Heaven Above, all decent dames will petrify as salt posts, with any surviving daughters misbehaving like Lot's.