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Ma and Pa Kettle at Home

 
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Ma and Pa Kettle at Home

  • Director: Charles Lamont
  • AMG Rating: starstarstar
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Movie Type: Slapstick
  • Themes: Class Differences
  • Main Cast: Marjorie Main, Percy Kilbride, Alan Mowbray, Alice Kelley, Brett Halsey
  • Release Year: 1954
  • Country: US
  • Run Time: 81 minutes

Plot

This sixth in the "Ma and Pa Kettle" series produced by Universal stars (as usual) Marjorie Main as Ma and Percy Kilbride as Pa. After a whirlwind international tour, the contest-winning rustics and their fifteen children return to their old farm. The eldest Kettle son (Brett Halsey) has a chance of winning a scholarship prize to a prestigious university, prompting the Kettles to try to impress a representative (Alan Mobray) of the magazine offering the scholarship. The magazine man is arrogant beyond belief, but a warm and fuzzy Christmas celebration humanizes the pompous visitor, so everything ends happily (after the expected slapstick finale, that is!) Considered the best of the "Kettle" series, Ma and Pa Kettle at Home is worth the admission price if only to hear the veddy British Alan Mobray say the word "Ma". ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Cast

Ross Elliott - Pete Crosby; Mary Wickes - Miss Wetter; Oliver Blake - Geoduck; Stan Ross - Crowbar; Emory Parnell - Bill Reed; Irving Bacon - Mr. Maddocks; Virginia Brissac - Mrs. Maddocks; Edmund Cobb - Jefferson; Edgar Dearing - Perkins; Tony Epper - Danny Kettle; Richard Eyer - Billie Kettle; James Flavin - Motorcycle Cop; Helen Gibson - Ranch Wife; Coral Hammond - Eve Kettle; Donald MacDonald - Benjamin Kettle; Patrick Miller - Teddy Kettle; Pat Morrow - Susie Kettle; Robert Nelson - Motorcycle Cop; Carol Nugent - Nancy Kettle; Judy Nugent - Betty Kettle; Gary Pagett - George Kettle; Ken Terrell - Indian; Rick Vallin - Indian; Guy Wilkerson - Jones; Hank Worden - Indian; Nancy Zane - Sara Kettle; Whitey Haupt - Henry Kettle

Credit

Charles Lamont - Director, Leonard Weiner - Editor, Henry Mancini - Composer (Music Score), Herman Stein - Composer (Music Score), Joseph E. Gershenson - Musical Direction/Supervision, Robert F. Boyle - Production Designer, Bernard Herzbrun - Production Designer, Carl Guthrie - Cinematographer, Richard Wilson - Producer, Kay Lenard - Screenwriter
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