Old Dry Frye

Duration: 30 min.

Genre: Educational

Year Published: 1986

Creator: filid

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Description: Based on a traditional Appalachian folktale. Set in North Georgia in the late 19th century, the film tells how the accidental death of a chicken-gobbling itinerant preacher initiates a bizarrw episode of guilt and deception among the residents of an isolated "holler"., dramatization of an odd old Appalachian folktale

Complete Record: , This Appalachian folktale concerns a mountain preacher, Old Dry Frye, who chokes and dies as he greedily gulps down a piece of his favorite chicken at the table of a poor farmer and his family. An unlikely sequence of guilt and redemption is begun when the host disposes of the body near a local still. The bootlegger, thinking he somehow caused the death of the preacher, moves the body. A comedy of errors develops as each family in the community comes to feel they have caused the demise of Preacher Frye. To divert attention, each attends Sunday meetin' where they humorously realize the error of their ways. , dramatization of an odd old Appalachian folktaleNOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.