“Ma and Pa Kettle Go to Town” and get involved with gangsters! Our favorite hillbillies win a trip to New York City and travel by train from their home in Cape Flattery, Washington. A fleeing bank robber runs into Pa and agrees to baby-sit their fourteen children if he will deliver a bag, unknown to the Kettles to contain $100,000, to his brother in New York. The hilarity proceeds from there!
The screenplay by Martin Ragaway and Leonard Stern contains plenty of laughs, and the film is well directed by Charles Lamont (“Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man” 1951). Marjorie Main and Percy Kilbride return, of course, as Ma and Pa Kettle. Richard Long and Meg Randall also reprise their roles as the oldest son and his wife. Co-stars include Jim Backus, Charles McGraw, and Bert Freed as the criminals, with Hal March and Elliot Lewis as the NYPD officers. “Ma and Pa Kettle Go to Town” was a hit in theaters for Universal Pictures.
Ma and Pal Kettle Go to Town (1950)
cinema
My Review
“Ma and Pa Kettle Go to Town” and get involved with gangsters! Our favorite hillbillies win a trip to New York City and travel by train from their home in Cape Flattery, Washington. A fleeing bank robber runs into Pa and agrees to baby-sit their fourteen children if he will deliver a bag, unknown to the Kettles to contain $100,000, to his brother in New York. The hilarity proceeds from there!
The screenplay by Martin Ragaway and Leonard Stern contains plenty of laughs, and the film is well directed by Charles Lamont (“Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man” 1951). Marjorie Main and Percy Kilbride return, of course, as Ma and Pa Kettle. Richard Long and Meg Randall also reprise their roles as the oldest son and his wife. Co-stars include Jim Backus, Charles McGraw, and Bert Freed as the criminals, with Hal March and Elliot Lewis as the NYPD officers. “Ma and Pa Kettle Go to Town” was a hit in theaters for Universal Pictures.