The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band
1968 · 110 MIN · IMDB 6.3 · 1,096 VOTES · DIR. Michael O'Herlihy
Overview
The Bower Family Band petitions the Democratic National Committee to sing a Grover Cleveland rally song at the 1888 convention, but decide instead to move to the Dakota territory on the urging of a suitor to their eldest daughter. There, Grampa Bower causes trouble with his pro-Cleveland ideas, as Dakota residents are overwhelmingly Republican, and hope to get the territory admitted as two states (North and South Dakota) rather than one in order to send four Republican senators to Washington. Cleveland opposed this plan, refusing to refer to Congress the plan to organize the Dakotas this way. When Cleveland wins the popular vote, but Harrison the presidency due to the electoral college votes, the Dakotans (particularly the feuding young couple) resolve to live together in peace, and Cleveland grants statehood to the two Dakotas before he leaves office (along with two Democrat-voting states, evening the gains for both parties).
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00:00:01 ♪
00:05:58 ♪ 'Til the heart of my life would arrive ♪
00:10:44 It's probably your moustache. It...
00:15:36 ♪ He's what this country needs but it's up to me and you ♪
00:21:04 A republican singing at a Democratic convention.
00:26:30 I-I haven't slept in a week.
00:31:14 [ Crowd murmuring ]
00:35:36 ♪ By the heavens ♪
00:40:10 [ Crowd cheering, applauding ]
00:43:59 Let me ask you. Let me ask you.
00:48:43 Aw, come on! Come on!
00:52:35 Do you think you could go to the schoolhouse and send the children home?
00:57:04 [ Grandpa ] So, there's gonna be no school today and ya might as well all go home.
01:01:32 If I know something you don't know, then I'm qualified to teach you.
01:05:23 ♪ Drummin' drummin', drummin' ♪
01:09:12 inject politics into the classroom, then...
01:14:39 You said that.
01:19:15 If we're going to educate the children
01:23:18 All my life.
01:28:09 ♪ Then it's back to stackin' hay ♪
01:34:09 ♪
01:38:37 Hold everything.
01:43:50 Where is he? Where is he? Here he is!
01:50:06 ♪ Original family band ♪