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Ma and Pa Kettle Go to Town (1950)
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1 April 1950 (USA)
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When Pa wins a jingle-writing contest, he and Ma head for New York City. They they get in trouble with...
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(Complete credited cast)| Marjorie Main | ... | Ma Kettle | |
| Percy Kilbride | ... | Pa Kettle | |
| Richard Long | ... | Tom Kettle | |
| Meg Randall | ... | Kim Parker Kettle | |
| Gregg Martell | ... | Louie | |
| Charles McGraw | ... | Shotgun Mike Munger | |
| Kathryn Givney | ... | Mrs. Victoria Masterson | |
| Jim Backus | ... | Joseph 'Little Joe' Rogers | |
| Elliott Lewis | ... | Detective Sam Boxer | |
| Paul McVey | ... | Harold Masterson | |
| Bert Freed | ... | Dutch, Third New York Henchman | |
| Hal March | ... | Det. Mike Eskow | |
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| Barbara Brown | ... | Elizabeth Parker (scenes deleted) | |
| Ray Collins | ... | Jonathan Parker (scenes deleted) | |
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Going to Town (UK)
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79 min
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1.37 : 1 more
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Followed by Ma and Pa Kettle Back on the Farm (1951)
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Also released on April Fools Day, this next Ma & Pa Kettle flick has most of the same cast as the first. At the very end of first one, Pa had won a trip to the big city as part of a contest, and that's where this one picks up. It opens with Ma making breakfast, and there's a great joke with popcorn and pancakes... another funny is the Native American's plan to buy back Manhattan.... keep an eye out for Jim Backus as a thug in a smallish part, YEARS before he was Thurston Howell III, and Richard Long (Nanny & the Professor, died quite young). Dan Yowlachie, plays the neighbor "Crowbar" in this one as well; he was a Yakima Native American who was probably glad to do something other than Westerns, and was also an opera singer. In this picture, we flash back and forth between the Kettles chasing after those disappearing bags in NYC, then back to the crook babysitting the children back at the house. The plot is a little more complicated and disjointed than the first Kettle movie, but it all works out in the clothes-wringer! Good, clean cut fun with jokes and gags thrown into the cops and robbers story.