Ma and Pa Kettle at Waikiki

19531953
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1h 19m

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6.5/10

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Percy Kilbride, Marjorie Main, Lori Nelson, and Byron Palmer in Ma and Pa Kettle at Waikiki (1953)

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Ma and Pa, with their daughter Rosie, go off to Hawai'i to answer ailing Cousin Rodney's call for help running his pineapple farm while he recovers. Pa soon causes a major explosion and gets... Read allMa and Pa, with their daughter Rosie, go off to Hawai'i to answer ailing Cousin Rodney's call for help running his pineapple farm while he recovers. Pa soon causes a major explosion and gets himself kidnapped.Ma and Pa, with their daughter Rosie, go off to Hawai'i to answer ailing Cousin Rodney's call for help running his pineapple farm while he recovers. Pa soon causes a major explosion and gets himself kidnapped.

IMDb RATING

6.5/10

533

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Director
- Lee Sholem
Writers
- Jack Henley(screenplay)
- Harry Clork(screenplay)
- Elwood Ullman(screenplay)
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Percy Kilbride and Marjorie Main in Ma and Pa Kettle at Waikiki (1953)

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Russell Johnson and Percy Kilbride in Ma and Pa Kettle at Waikiki (1953)

Myron Healey, Russell Johnson, Percy Kilbride, and Ben Welden in Ma and Pa Kettle at Waikiki (1953)

Marjorie Main and Lori Nelson in Ma and Pa Kettle at Waikiki (1953)

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Trivia
Although not released until 1955, this film was actually shot in 1952.

Quotes
Bob Baxter: Say, I seem to be lost. Can you tell me where P.A. Kettle lives?
Birdie Hicks: P.A. Kettle?
Miss Pennyfeather: The only Kettles we know live down this street.
Bob Baxter: Is he the industrialist?
Birdie Hicks: If you call having children an industry.

Connections
Followed by Ma and Pa Kettle at Home (1954)

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Trailer Trash

I wonder why there is such a persistent tradition in movies to depict low class folks comically.

Its usually done with apparent sympathy to the honest or simple values of our rubes, and the only people treated harshly are the rich (and bankers). "Beverly Hillbillies" was the extreme, I guess.

But the root of the thing is a sort of white minstrel mentality. While we chuckle over the dumbness (and in this case laziness) of these trailer park dummies (who seem to do nothing but rut and make more), isn't the point that we are superior?

Ted's Evaluation -- 1 of 3: You can find something better to do with this part of your life.

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