is a 1948 American romantic comedy-drama film written and directed by F. Hugh Herbert, based on the novel of the same name by George Agnew Chamberlain.

One of them takes a job as a hired-hand with a neighboring farmer from whom he buys a pair of mules and must learn to train them, and whose daughter he is in love with, though she entices both brothers to compete for her affections.

Snug intends to use his first week's pay for another installment on the mules and is devastated when Tony, who was holding the money, returns home drunk and broke.

Meanwhile, Snug learns that his father has died, leaving him the Dominy farm, and Tony promises to consult Judge Stillwell about evicting Stretch and Judith.

Snug and Rad, who are out on a date, return to Tony's house and there catch Stretch as Crowder is crushing him against the barn wall.

After having been signed to 20th Century Fox as a contract player, Marilyn Monroe had her first bit part for the studio playing Betty in this film.

But film historian James Haspiel says her line is intact, and she also appears in a shot (deep in the background, and mostly with her back to the camera) with herself and another woman paddling a canoe.

[8] In a scene from the 1989 film Driving Miss Daisy, the movie theatre marquee in town indicates Scudda Hoo!