The Girl from Tobacco Row

The Girl from Tobacco Row is a low budget 1966 American film directed by Ron Ormond and starring country music singers Tex Ritter and Earl Sinks alongside Rachel Romen.

[1] Working on a chain gang, "Snake" Richards learns from a fellow prisoner has stashed money prior to his imprisonment.

He attracts attention from the reverend's older daughter Nadine, though Snake is more interested in her quieter younger sister Rita.

[2] Much of the film consisted of performances by various country and gospel acts - in addition to Ritter, Sinks, Faye and Russell the movie included musical numbers from harmonica duo The Mulcahys, Fiddlin' Arthur Smith, Smiley and Kitty Wilson and Martha Carson.

Sinks would use the Earl Richards pseudonym for his records from 1969 to 1977,[4] while Ormond would crash his private plane into a field in Nashville on his way to a screening of The Girl from Tobacco Row.