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conversations.value: Do you know a description for a book titled God's Little Acre about Abridged, Walden, Georgia with the genre: Literature & Fiction, Contemporary?
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conversations.value: Abridged 3 hours in length. Ty Ty Walden is a Georgia farmer who suffers a severe case of gold fever. "If youhad the fever," he tells Pluto Swint, "you wouldn't have time for nothing else.... It gets a man just like liquor does, or chasing women...
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conversations.value: Do you know a plot for a book titled God's Little Acre about Abridged, Walden, Georgia with the genre: Literature & Fiction, Contemporary?
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conversations.value: God's Little Acre (film): Widower Ty Ty Walden (Robert Ryan) and his two daughters live in the backwoods of Georgia during the Great Depression (although the film appears to be set in the 1950s, since many of the cars are 1950s vintage).\nWhile Ty Ty searches for gold on his farm, his son-in-law Will (Aldo Ray) cheats on his wife Rosamund (Helen Westcott) with Griselda (Tina Louise).\nTy Ty has been digging for gold on his land for 15 years.\nPluto Swint (Buddy Hackett) arrives to announce he\'s running for sheriff.\nSwint is invited to come around back where Darlin\' Jill (Fay Spain) is taking a bath in an outdoor bathtub positioned near a handpump and spigot.\nShe asks him to pump some more water (the camera never dips lower than the top of the tub).\nAsked to keep his eyes closed, he sneaks a pleasurable peek.\nTy Ty spends most of his time digging holes, constantly searching for the treasure his grandfather left him.\nConsequently, the farm has suffered from years of neglect.\nHe could have turned a profit any time by buying and planting seed in the fields, but he thinks the gold is just another dig away.\nThe seductive lure of easy gold a mere shovel or two away is actually leading him to squander his inheritance.\nIf his real treasure lies in his daughters, the viewer is invited to gauge the depth of that genealogical reserve, inasmuch as Darlin\' Jill appears to be a woman of equally easy morals.\nIn the belief that having an albino with him in his quest for treasure will bring him great fortune, Ty Ty transports and wrongfully imprisons Dave Dawson (Michael Landon), a man with white hair and pink eyes, demanding that he help him locate the buried treasure.\nTy Ty reasons that it is not actually wrongful detainment, because at any time the albino could lead him to the treasure, thereby earning his release.\nIn anticipation of a potential find he changes the location of a plot of land allocated to the church in a tithing relationship (known as God\'s Little Acre, hence the title), in order to keep any gold found there for himself.\nHe moves the plot\'s marker, a large, ramshackle cross, to the side of the house, but lo and behold that is exactly where the divining rod in the hands of the albino comes to rest, supposedly indicating where the gold is buried.\nHowever, seeing that the divining rod was pulling the albino towards the side of the house, Ty Ty had again pulled the marker out of the ground explaining that God told him to move it, thereby absolving him from giving any gold found in this new spot to the church.\nHe replants the marker farther away on the edge of a pond for it "to be cooler".\nIn the middle of the night Will leaves his house, followed by Griselda.\nHe breaks open the mill\'s gates and enters the property.\nAt first she distracts him from his purpose and they kiss.\nHe then escorts her back to the gates and asks the growing (but in the film relatively silent) crowd to restrain her.\nHe reenters and turns on the power, and the machines reactivate to the cheers of the crowd.\nHearing the rioters\' assembly and the mill\'s power turned on, the caretaker comes from an inside office and shoots Will for trespassing.\nHe staggers outside and the crowd\'s cheers turn to silence.\nThey carry his body back to his house.\nGriselda enters to tell Rosamund the bad news, but the other cries out that she already knows what has happened.\nImplicitly, at this point the tide in the county elections turns irreversibly.\nThe populist Pluto Swint is elected sheriff, replacing the incumbent.\nThe Walden family squabble after Will\'s funeral, particularly over Griselda\'s actions at the mill, and the numerous affections which she attracts from the other sons.\nThe family decides to give up searching for the gold.\nThe film ends with the family contentedly plowing for the first time in years.\nTy Ty finds the blade of an old shovel in the ground, and speculates about whether the gold might lie in that spot.\nAs he begins digging again, the camera pans to the pond and the final resting place of the marker for God\'s Little Acre.